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February 21, 2005
Back From The Past!
That's right everyone: I am a miracle worker. I can restore the dead back to life!
Look over at the archives section. Notice something? This weblog was created in January 2004. Why, then, are there entries that date to earlier than that? Well obviously because I went back and added them in! But look closer: you'll see that there are now many many more entries that were not there yesterday! Why is that, you ask? Because I brought them back from the dead!
These posts are all legitimate posts that were written on the proper date that they say. The text is what it was, not estimated. The only thing not exactly right is the exact time posted. It's exactly like looking into the past and reading my thoughts that I posted to my old websites!
How did I do this? Actually, here's where I admit that I'm not a miracle worker. The internet is.
I used The Wayback Machine and searched for every form of my website that my brain could possibly think up (though I still think there may be one form that I forgot). I checked the archives for records of www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5330, free.prohosting.com/~d-minky, thunder.prohosting.com/~d-minky, welcome.to/d.minky.land, ringling.edu/~mmeyer, and www.rsad.edu/~mmeyer. I'm not 100% sure, but I think there may be one more site that my webpage existed on for a short time... but I can't remember it if there even is. In any case, the Wayback machine had a *few* archives of these sites. Unfortunately not all of the archives were even complete, so I couldn't get every single update to my site from the past. Even so, the sheer amount of recovered data amazes me, and I'm really happy to be able to recover some of my ramblings and memories from when I was much younger.
As you may know, I've had a website since 1997, and it has had many incarnations since then. However, it's always had a touch of my personality in it, and that's what I find interesting to read. (I don't know if you do, but whatever... I don't care ;-p) One of these days I'd like to try to create a little shrine on this site to the many incarnations that my page has taken during the past 8 years. Just so visitors can see what the pages looked like back then (of course, the Wayback Machine will always be able to show that -- albeit with broken images -- but I'd like to do a little commentary; you know how I like to ramble on about things).
If anyone has the insane desire to go back and read all my newly recovered posts as well as read through every single file you can find of mine on the Wayback Machine (use the asterisk when you search to do that), I would be so appreciative if you could scour and search for any posts that I may have overlooked. I believe I got every one of them that I could, but I may be mistaken.
I'm really happy to have found these scattered entries, but at the same time I've even more nostalgic and wish that I would have archived my files better. It's really fun to watch myself grow throughout the span of my websites, and any extra tidbits of information are extremely interesting to me, if not to anyone else.
Posted by dminky at February 21, 2005 02:17 AM
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