Great fun. Thanks for your efforts, Brian. On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
> > > Ok, I guess it's time for me to chime in. > > First, I will refer to my 2-year old post to PDML where > I described my recollections about the PUG history. > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg480710.html > >> 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. > > The secret of those galleries was that > I saved them by mirroring them from the geocities just before that site > became defunct. I was trying to find the rest, asked Doug Brewer about > them, but he didn't have them or didn't respond.. I don't remember. > > Brian, I am glad you were able to find some of the missing ones. > > Igor > > > > > > -----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 > > -- > 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.
