On Christmas, you read about my list of gifts, but today is your turn. While you may have gotten gifts for Christmas (or Hanukah, Kwanzaa, or Generic Secular Holiday Gift Exchange Day) you didn't get a gift from your favorite blogs (I certainly didn't, maybe I just don't visit enough blogs), so I will give you one.
The first surprise is a disk image of a fairly rare CD-ROM...the MacAdvocate CD! You can read about this rare beast here. It has Apple commercials, wildly outdated information, and more. But now you can download it thanks to my Mac Garden alter-ego Temporary Joe (it was originally ps3d but I lost the password). Click here and follow the link for the mirror.
I had a second "gift" in mind, but I decided not to post it because I didn't scan it in time. It does have to do with Houston history, however.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
TIL: Not All Hope Is Lost?
In response to previous post:
Further poking around reveals a few artifacts: drivers and ancient OSs can be found here and some card manuals can be found here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50099. Still, we don't know if the entire TIL has been recreated. Stay tuned.
And look: even this old tip faithfully recreated.
OK, so it wasn't nearly as bad as we thought. Still, it's very difficult to navigate through, plus Nintendo hasn't put up their games list like they were supposed to a few years ago. When did they pull that stunt? 2007? Nevermind, that's for another day.
Some of you may have worried about "removing things". I will just be going through the blog and archiving some terrible old posts. And my website is up but I can't connect to FTP. Grrr...AGAIN!
Further poking around reveals a few artifacts: drivers and ancient OSs can be found here and some card manuals can be found here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50099. Still, we don't know if the entire TIL has been recreated. Stay tuned.
And look: even this old tip faithfully recreated.
OK, so it wasn't nearly as bad as we thought. Still, it's very difficult to navigate through, plus Nintendo hasn't put up their games list like they were supposed to a few years ago. When did they pull that stunt? 2007? Nevermind, that's for another day.
Some of you may have worried about "removing things". I will just be going through the blog and archiving some terrible old posts. And my website is up but I can't connect to FTP. Grrr...AGAIN!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Geocities
Today marks the day Geocities is shutting down. I'm not going to ramble on how it marks the end of an era, et cetera, or what the rest of the Internet is doing (see Wikipedia for that), I will some of the Geocities I remember.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/2247/Poke.htm
This was one of my favorite sites back in the day...when I was really into Pokémon, our modem only was 56k (and you could hear it dialing up...does PPP mean anything to you), and I could only have 15 minutes of Internet time.
www.geocities.com/richiesite/index.html
This was another Pokémon site but not one of my favorites. Devoted and named after a minor character in the animé, it had problems (stretching it across multiple servers, like "/richiesite2" caused problems when Yahoo deleted the others) and some cool information but nothing that couldn't be found elsewhere.
http://www.geocities.com/mcburgers_com
This was a site made after Geocities discontinued the "neighborhoods" but this disappeared around early 2004 (wow, has it already been five years?) I think I covered this in another (older/more embarrassing) blog post. You'd think it would be a rip-off of Todd Wilbur's work, but there was actually some thought put into it, such as how to make it taste McDonald's like (if I recall correctly, the Big Mac recipe required wrapping in wax paper, microwaving it, and then letting it sit a few more minutes...and no, they weren't sarcastic).
Sadly, these are the only Geocities sites I actually remember visiting. Still, I will miss Geocities.
Goodbye.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/2247/Poke.htm
This was one of my favorite sites back in the day...when I was really into Pokémon, our modem only was 56k (and you could hear it dialing up...does PPP mean anything to you), and I could only have 15 minutes of Internet time.
www.geocities.com/richiesite/index.html
This was another Pokémon site but not one of my favorites. Devoted and named after a minor character in the animé, it had problems (stretching it across multiple servers, like "/richiesite2" caused problems when Yahoo deleted the others) and some cool information but nothing that couldn't be found elsewhere.
http://www.geocities.com/mcburgers_com
This was a site made after Geocities discontinued the "neighborhoods" but this disappeared around early 2004 (wow, has it already been five years?) I think I covered this in another (older/more embarrassing) blog post. You'd think it would be a rip-off of Todd Wilbur's work, but there was actually some thought put into it, such as how to make it taste McDonald's like (if I recall correctly, the Big Mac recipe required wrapping in wax paper, microwaving it, and then letting it sit a few more minutes...and no, they weren't sarcastic).
Sadly, these are the only Geocities sites I actually remember visiting. Still, I will miss Geocities.
Goodbye.
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