A look at the past

Being a Sunday morning, and having been at the oldest house in Glasgow yesterday, i decided to take a nostalgic look at some of the sites i use today - see what they used to be like. Here are some of what i looked at. The Google.com entry page was nice - just two lines of text poining to the alpha site below. Worth checking out waybackmachine.org - i just wish they had been around since 1993 and i could have seen back to when i started with all this ....

microsoft.com
October 20, 1996

google.com
November 11, 1998

hotmail.com
December 21, 1996

























gmail.com
December 23, 1996




























socialtext.com
May 20, 2002


























sun.com
October 20, 1996




























ebay.com
June 14, 1997












yahoo.com
October 17, 1996




























scripting.com
December 27, 1996
















xmlrpc.com
mentioned as i get a mention on the front page.
What the heck was SOAP anyway!?
Feb 29, 2000


























Unfortunately i can't find out much about "Soliton Computing" - a company i started with a then friend back in 1992/1993 (doesn't seem to be indexed anywhere anymore :( ). We were running our business off the Univesity computers and they we're best pleased when they found out. In all honesty we were just creating web sites for aroudn 50 small businesses in Glasgow - the whole business part of it wasn't something we thought about. Shame. We just enjoyed hacking html, Perl and so on.