Return of the Cybrary
It’s blast from the past day for me. During various server moves, somewhere along the way we lost my first site, Jenny’s Cybrary to the Stars, which I ran from 1995–1999. The main highlight of the site was The Librarians’ Site du Jour, the original library blog.
So when a reader alerted me that the site was missing, I had to start looking through backups to find the original files. Because I hadn’t worked with the files in a decade, they weren’t on any of my recent backup drives. I started to worry that I wouldn’t be able to recover them but in the end, I found them on my old Zip drive. Yep, that’s right — remember Zip drives? Backup 1.0 FTW!
Some fun pages from the Cybrary:
- How We Did It — How we implemented dial-up internet access for the public in 1996.
- Stay Current in Cyberspace — How we did it back in the day.
- Internet Resources to Help Persuad Your Board — Yes, there was a time we had to convince administrators and trustees that we should offer internet access and create a website for the library.
- Pick any of the LSdJ months (scroll to the bottom) and browse through the sites for the retro World Wide Web.
Sorry in advance for the yellow background — it was the early days. :-p
Oh what a trip down memory lane. I remember your early sites so clearly and how often I recommended them to people. And brings to mind even earlier things like this list of “top ten list for internet novices” http://serials.infomotions.com/nnews/nnews-13.txt
Comment by pollyalida — November 12, 2009 @ 12:27 am
Thanks, Polly! It was definitely a trip looking back at the old site!
Comment by jenny — November 12, 2009 @ 6:44 am
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Hey, a lot of your RSS feeds also seem to be down at the moment.
I’m only getting the comments feeds and the blog posts only feed.
Comment by Clyde Smith — December 6, 2009 @ 6:04 am