May 6th, 2009
When the news broke that Yahoo! was shutting down its free Geocities web-hosting service, Newton fans wondered: what about those MessagePad fan and software sites?
Tony Kan put out the call: save those web pages!
Morgan Aldridge offered to host any that could be saved on the United Newton Network Archives (UNNA) mirror site – and, one by one, the Newton community is doing just that.
Sites like Newtonium-62 and Newton Ressurection are all being saved from the Interweb trash heap. Without this effort, a lot of Newton history, stories, and knowledge would be lost forever.
A few of the sites I have up on my own Newton Sites page will have to be re-routed to the new, UNNA-hosted URL. But it’s so worth it.
If you find a Geocities Newton site out there, lost at sea, be sure to contact Morgan.
Posted by davelawrence8 at 6:35 am on May 6th, 2009. Categories: community, newton history. Tags: free, geocities, host, internet, messagepad, newton, page, site, UNNA, web, www, yahoo. Subscribe via RSS.
January 29th, 2008
Macenstein is hosting a great down-memory-lane look back at Apple.com – like here, where in 1997 you could still grab an eMate 300 that was “mobile, affordable, & smart.” No kidding?
Macenstein also put together a great video, featuring all the Apple.com homepages over the past decade, all from Kernal Panic’s Flickr photos. Now that’s sharing.
I love stuff like this; a rare glimpse into Apple’s past. And I really dig the old marketing messages (“iBook: black tie optional”) and photos of all my favorite Macs.
Posted by davelawrence8 at 6:39 pm on January 29th, 2008. Categories: eMate, newton history. Tags: apple, apple.com, eMate, history, ibook, internet, macenstein, messagepad, newton, site, web, www. Subscribe via RSS.
