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. > > > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
