I have no idea why I started
writing this blog other than wanting to see something I wrote on the
internet. I do remember that as part of
beginning this adventure, I did a short investigation into blogging. Having decided, for whatever reason, that happiness
would lie here rather than at Word Press, I delved into the history of Blogspot.
Tonight , at a loose end due to having
made her angry once again, I searched my C Drive directories for excess baggage
to vent my delete urge upon. There it
was, my .doc from 2009 containing things of interest I’d found “way back then”. Apparently “way back then” I had used the “WayBack Machine” in my late night searches.
The Internet Archive is a fascinating
place, you should visit. There is no guarantee
your writing will actually be archived there, Way Back robots scour the net as finance allows, they
are a Non Profit after all. The
objective is to give future generations a open, accessible look at what has
gone before. Being able to see a page
that was current ten or fifteen years ago on any particular site is fascinating.
Blogspot apparently started as a programme
by Pyra Labs called “Blogger” and developed from there. Below are snaps of some of my searches in the
Way Back Machine archives, not all pages from a site are there of course, only
the ones captured during their web grabs I would think. Interesting to look back isn’t it?
Early blogspot:
The Blogger development company I believe:
The earliest Blogspot pages
captured, I haven’t tried to determine why the record stopped when it did.
An early blog, links still worked
for some sites linked to. I tested the Google News links, they worked even after all that time.
