Re: UKNM:Time Capsule

[Speechrad]

Never, say never, of course but I doubt if many web publishers would be

happy

to have their early attempts preserved.  I think I'd be pretty unhappy with

anyone flashing around last month's website in years to come, let alone the

one I put up 18 months ago. Why would any web site owner agree to such a

thing.

Of cpourse I may have overlooked something and if it's a success I'll

immediate say I always thought it was a winner.

Good luck

Michael


In a message dated 02/10/00 03:30:22 GMT Daylight Time,

timdesignercity [dot] com

writes:


<< Those of us who have been on the web for a while may have dim memories of

 how such 'classic' sites as Amazon and Yahoo used to look and operate - but

 of course there's no way for anyone to experience these sites in their

 'vintage' form (though a few screengrabs may be scattered around

somewhere).


 The web changes constantly, leaving almost no record of what used to be -

 and I for one would like to be able to look back on it in about 5 to 10

 years time and refresh my memory of what is (I feel) a very telling period

 in its history. I'd like to be able to move around inside it and experience

 it as it used to be - from the biggest commercial sites to the tiniest and

 crappiest personal home pages.


 All very well and good on the surface you might say, but there are quite a

 few things that make this a f#*%ing massive undertaking, not least of which

 being the incredible number of websites involved. I'm not blind to the

 enormous technical, administrative and copyright complications either - or

 the (ahem) small matter of commercial viability.


 But this is what lottery cash is for, isn't it?


 ;o)


 <hennypenny>

 So who will help me bake this bread?

 </hennypenny>


 Tim Ireland >>



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