With a little help from the Way Back Machine I’ve resurrected much of gulker.com 1997’s longer posts, most or all of which were published in The Independent (London). We have those bits sitting on hard drives in a bin in my home office. Hooking them up (anybody have a machine with a SCSI port that will also recognize Apple’s old HFS file system?) represents some challenges.
It’s easier to grab the pages from the Internet Archive and Google’s cache. Which I think, speaks volumes to the future of archiving. Put everything in the cloud, and let experts worry about moving your data as hardware and storage device standards come and go. Interestring trust model…
Early on, we had a static home page, a front door to all that we offered. My blog then (seen below), sat under a link from this page. Curious: I did have a script that put today’s date on the page (and also changed the picture at each load from a collection of 18), but I made readers click to get to the blog’s news. Mind you, it was a different world then. Having a web page was still a novelty, and drew blank stares at dinner parties, even in Silicon Valley. In those days ‘web’ was spelled ‘Web.’ Note the assymetrical layout and fractur logo…
Much has gone smoothly, and it’s easy to like WordPress’ features. One thing we haven’t solved is forwarding the RSS feed from gulker.com’s old Radio software (http://www.gulker.com/rss.xml) to WordPress’ feed (http://www.gulker.com/feed/rss2). We’ve tried two methods: remapping rss.xml to /feed/rss2 via hacking Apache’s .htaccess file, and using a WordPress plugin, Feed Director. Neither has worked, so we’re wondering what’s up…