It’s been fun blogging. One of the observations I’ve had lately is that I don’t have all my photos organized as I thought I did. I realized that I just started uploading my digital photos to Yahoo in 2002. I used my ISP and Outlook at the time and only used Yahoo as a search engine. I ended up becoming more involved with Yahoo when SBC and Yahoo merged. So I am guessing that that was in 2002.
Before that I used to upload pictures to my own website. I bought my first digital camera in 1996. It was a Fuji 1.3 pixels and the maximum size was 640x480. Bandwidth then was so poor, you had to make your images web friendly which meant making them small and light.
In visiting the site that I started in 1996 I noticed that most of the images have degraded in one way or another. So I am guessing that over time and Internet Explorer upgrades, those images then are now somewhat corrupted or not very compatible with the current version. I viewed it using IE and FireFox. Then again maybe my expectations were much lower then, I just can’t recall. I doubt that any company or web developer has archives of their older sites. There is however a website http://www.archive.org/web/web.php and it takes snapshots of websites over the years. I would be curious to walk down memory lane. I think we just take things for granted today.
Here are some examples…notice the graphics.
Here is what Yahoo looked like in October 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http:/www2.yahoo.com/
and this is what Yahoo looks like today, http://www.yahoo.com/
Dell in December 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961221053000/http:/www.dell.com/
Dell today http://www.dell.com/
Toshiba in December 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961219002946/http:/www.toshiba.com/
Toshiba today
http://www.toshiba.com/tai/
Maybe you don’t notice these things and don’t care, that’s okay. This is just an observation.
In 1996 I learned to do GIF animations and I thought they were so cool. I am embarrassed to show you what I did but I will anyway
http://www.gracespace.com/txtp15.htm
Today here is an example of a Flash animation I did in the home page of my Digital Grace website http://www.digitalgrace.info/ and this http://www.digitalgrace.info/test/Restaurant_template/fish.html
Notice how now they can even be interactive.
Anyway hope you are having a good day. These are just passing thoughts.
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