rashbre central: Ye olde days of webbe

Friday 10 June 2005

Ye olde days of webbe

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Wanna see how it used to be? dial up the Wayback Machine, to see old versions of popular Web sites dating back to 1996. There's a strange fascination to seeing old sites you know, what they said then and what they say now! In 1996, the Web was new and novel. An ancient site I remember was the Trojan Room Coffee Machine, which was an early web cam connected to check the level of coffee in a pot in a nearby room. Then there was the Mercury project from 1994 (I'm in the journal!) to operate a crane and camera to dig in sand and discover things by remote control. There was another one in Australia, which is still in use with a better control panel, eleven years later. BigRobot
Not to mention 1995's Overdraft Arms!
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Well worth a browse.

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