When you post to a forum, a blog, or a web page ... do you realize how long that stuff stays out there? I just found some comments of mine on a forum dating back to 1994. Considering the age of the graphical web, that's almost pre-history. Can anyone top me? I've thrown down the challenge gauntlet! (Google Groups Search)
You may be intrigued to learn about what I was commenting ... the price for a course titled The Internet as a Strategic Business Tool. Anybody remember gopher?
Please continue to post comments to this blog!
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An update to this posting:
By happenstance I found two blogs which had recent posts on the same topic (Gadgetopia and the CMS Report). The challenge issued in these blogs was to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and find the earliest web site you designed.
How about July 26...1994. http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.vacation/browse_frm/thread/209eafac3c229960/3920eb6f2b0f1381?lnk=st&q=massimin&rnum=29#3920eb6f2b0f1381
I never did go on the business trip mentioned in that posting!
Just a note that I have had postings from before that but was able to get them removed when they were put on the web. I differentiate web from usenet for this purpose. deja-news.com archived much of usenet and until they were sold (to google, I think) they allowed an original poster to request removal providing their email address from back-in-the-day was still valid. At the time I was mainly posting about parenting problems and medical issues and it was quite a shock to come across them later.
Of course, nowadays removing things is nigh impossible thanks to web archiving sites.
Posted by: Esther Massimini | January 04, 2007 at 12:08 AM