21. November, 2002 - Five Years
- Today's the fifth anniversary of the first set of picks I have a record of. The site was internal at WAM!NET at that point, and I'd been publishing things for a while already then, but it's the first one that survived when I made Dave's Picks entirely personal, so I'm calling this my fifth anniversary. Part of the the look back involved checking on things I linked to in 1997 and seeing how many are still around. It ended up being just about half for the things I picked in 1997. What follows are things I thought were cool in 1997 that are still on the web in the same location (or at least with an automatic redirect). The original commentary remains, but I've added new comments [within brackets].
- Upside says JAVA is Shooting Blanks.
- The Internet Archive better have a lot of storage handy.... [good thing hard drives got a lot cheaper, eh?]
- You need to know about the Wacky Patent of the Month. [every month for the past five years. Nice work, guys.]
- Earthwalker details the story of the first verified walk around the Earth. [The walk was in 1970-1974. The counter says only sixty-thousand visitors since 1996.]
- Rocket and Water Rockets [dead link] were pointed out to me by a friend. Cool stuff, Maynard.
- The gratuitous useful link of the week is When Am I?.
- AfterLife keeps your website alive after you're dead. [Or so they said back in 1997. Five years later, they're still developing the idea.]
- Tim Leary could have used it, since his site seems to be down now. [It's there again, but you have to click on the black gif on the black page to get in.]
- Lastly, if you haven't checked out Red Meat yet, you probably should. [But the current strip location has changed.]
- Gorilla Art - Just what it sounds like. [It's gone, but Koko still owns the gorrila.org domain, and that's updated.]
- Need To Know - A weekly eZine put out by some guys in the UK. Interesting rants. [Still! After five years!]
- Rubik Online - The creator of the cube has a website.
- Bill Gates is Salieri - A brief article about Bill Boogie Gates.
- Open Secrets Interactive - Who's buying your congress-critter?
- The Jargon Lexicon - What does the banana problem have to do with computers? [It's moved, but it redirects.]
- The Compact Index of HTML Tags by the Willcam Group is Just Plain Useful. [Although there are much more current references available now.]
- The AFU & Urban Legends Archive chronicles urban legends.
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Last updated on Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:22:30.