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