Yes Brian, thanks for restoring those pages. The PUG was on hiatus for a while when I first started reading the pdml. Some fellow in the Philippines or Indonesia proposed a gallery and asked for submissions. I sent him a picture of a squirrel on my bird feeder hunkered in during a snowstorm. He tarted it all up with a ragged mat to emphasize the snow and that was the end for me. However, the pugmeister at the time was humbled enough to suggest a restart, and Bill Robb took over as pugmeister/promoter/ring master of the circus. The rest is history. Looking at the old stuff, I miss some of those guys! Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent! Thank-you so much for restoring those pages. > Dario > > -----Messaggio originale----- From: Brian Walters > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 9:54 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PUG - Restoring the Missing Galleries > > 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. > > > ----- > Nessun virus nel messaggio. > Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com > Versione: 2012.0.1913 / Database dei virus: 2114/4880 - Data di rilascio: > 19/03/2012 > -- > 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. -- 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.
