Thank you for all your work, Brian! A fascinating dive into some pdml history.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> G'day all
>
> A project I've had in mind since taking over as PUG-meister, was to try to
> find and restore the first few PUG galleries from 1997/98.
>
> As 2012 is the PUG's 15th anniversary, I decided that now would be a good
> time. In any case, it hasn't stopped raining here for weeks so I've spent a
> lot more time at the computer than is usual...
>
> In the 'Previous Galleries' page on Komkon, we already had all galleries
> back to March 1998. As it turned out, galleries from April 1997 (the very
> first PUG) to August 1997 were, in fact, already stored away on the Komkon
> server.  They were just hidden away in the archives folder and not readily
> accessible.  Restoring those was a fairy simple exercise.
>
> This left galleries from September 1997 to February 1998 still 'missing'.
>  These were galleries stored on the now departed GeoCities system.
>
> Enter - The Wayback Machine.
>
> Fortunately, I had a web address for one of the GeoCities galleries and, by
> fiddling with the URLs I was able to locate galleries for Dec 97, Jan 98 and
> Feb 98.
>
> All of these galleries have now been restored to the 'Previous Galleries'
> page. So, what about Sep/Oct/Nov 97?  I don't know, but as they aren't in
> the archives and don't seem to be on the Wayback Machine, I'm guessing that
> there weren't any PUGs for those months.
>
> If you want to take a look back at PDML history, check out these early PUGs
> at:
>
> http://pug.komkon.org/general/pastgalleries.html
>
> Remember - these were dial-up days when bandwidth for posting images was
> limited, so the images are very small by the standards of today's PUG.  And,
> of course, all were taken on film cameras and had to be scanned.
>
> It's interesting to see who of today's regular PDMLers were active back
> then. Doug Brewer is the only name I recognise in the April 97 gallery but
> JCO and Derby show up in May 97 with Luiz and Dario also appearing in '97.
>
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> --
> Cheers
>
> Brian
>
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