Blast from the Past
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Do you remember the old sadgeezer.com layout?
I’d almost forgotten until I came accross these in one of the directories on the server:
The LEXX [url=/lexx/lexx3-01p.htm]Fire and Water Review[/url] from Season Three
Or….
The LEXX [url=/lexx/lexx%203-06.htm]K Town Review[/url] from Season Three
[i] It almost hurts my eyes to look at them now [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] [/i]
[ 20-04-2002: Message edited by: SadGeezer ]
And I’ve just found an even older page from the very first SadGeezers Guide to LEXX layout. It’s the old LEXX introduction page and was from around 1998.
Ahhh… memories [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
[url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx/lexintro.htm]LEXX Introduction Page (Don’t laugh ok!?)[/url]
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
And I’ve just found an even older page from the very first SadGeezers Guide to LEXX layout. It’s the old LEXX introduction page and was from around 1998.Ahhh… memories [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
[url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx/lexintro.htm]LEXX Introduction Page (Don’t laugh ok!?)[/url]
really, i think it’s not that bad!
here’s a [url=http://web.archive.org/web/19990208020057/http://www.sadgeezer.com]link[/url] (hopefully it works) to the sad homepage from 1999 recorded by the internet archive [sort of the internet smithsonian]. I didn’t know the layout used to be so different. A [url=http://www.archive.org/]wayback machine[/url] search turns up some older pages from 1998 too! Some of the links on these pages should work too.
[ 21-04-2002: Message edited by: bugblatterbeast ]
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
And I’ve just found an even older page from the very first SadGeezers Guide to LEXX layout. It’s the old LEXX introduction page and was from around 1998.Ahhh… memories [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
[url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx/lexintro.htm]LEXX Introduction Page (Don’t laugh ok!?)[/url]
Certainly a far cry from today’s multi-million pound empire that you have!!!
It’s quite fascinating to see how our favourite board started out, so was it just a hobby when you started?, how many pages was it then? Was it just about Lexx back then?
Trouble is, the bigger you get the more you have to fork out to keep it running, personally I hope it never happens, but the charges of the Internet are making most of my favourite sites pay-sites.
And whilst I agree that bandwidth costs are an issue, I still remember the day when the net was completely free of it, I will never pay for anything on the net, I’m not a cheapskate, I just know that the net is all about making money, one of the last free things in life is gradually going.
Damn moneymen, I just wish they had left the net alone.
Squishy [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img][img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] that was sooooo cool seeing the previous incarnations of Sadgeezer.com! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] and Sad i really liked them. i love the way the site is now, but those old ones were very cool too! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Squishy:
Certainly a far cry from today’s multi-million pound empire that you have!!!
Haha [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] You mean multi-penny [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
quote[quote]so was it just a hobby when you started?, how many pages was it then? Was it just about Lexx back then?[/quote]
Yes, it was a hobby spurred by the fact that I had to learn all about this new Internet thingy. As an Innovation Executive (Sounds grand but I worked in an open plan office and made my own cups of tea) I was responcible for keeping up with new things that might benefit local businesses. I developed the Sadgeezers Guide to motivate my learning process. The very first Guide was the SadGeezers guide to Babylon 5 which was my fave TV show at the time. LEXX didn’t start until much later (after I created the Jokes Guide)
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….I just know that the net is all about making money, one of the last free things in life is gradually going.
Damn moneymen, I just wish they had left the net alone.
Me too [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
Mind you, in the old days there was nothing! Html was written in Notepad and there was non of the wiz-bang cool stuff that you can do to make pages more interesting. The thing I love about the net is that I am still (only just) able to compete with everyone else, the big corporations, and other sadgeezers like me. There is a level playing field and although money is now a factor in developing your own hobby site, it really only makes a difference when the site becomes very large. I remember when I had a page counter on the site and checked it each week to see if I had increased the number of weekly visitors. I bought cream cakes for some of the members of my team (the ones that didn’t think I was crazy) when the page hit counter reached 100 for the first time [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Now I can’t download a weeks logs because the log file re-writes itself every two days because there are so many hits, on a good week it’s over 50,000 page views and 15,000 visitors.
But you know, I remember the first hundred page hit log report a lot better than the first 10,000 report. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
[ 21-04-2002: Message edited by: SadGeezer ]
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Originally posted by bugblatterbeast:
here’s a [url=http://web.archive.org/web/19990208020057/http://www.sadgeezer.com]link[/url] (hopefully it works) to the sad homepage from 1999 recorded by the internet archive [sort of the internet smithsonian]. I didn’t know the layout used to be so different. A [url=http://www.archive.org/]wayback machine[/url] search turns up some older pages from 1998 too! Some of the links on these pages should work too.
WOW! Thanks for the links dude! Wadda blast!
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
Me too [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
Mind you, in the old days there was nothing! Html was written in Notepad and there was non of the wiz-bang cool stuff that you can do to make pages more interesting. The thing I love about the net is that I am still (only just) able to compete with everyone else, the big corporations, and other sadgeezers like me. There is a level playing field and although money is now a factor in developing your own hobby site, it really only makes a difference when the site becomes very large. I remember when I had a page counter on the site and checked it each week to see if I had increased the number of weekly visitors. I bought cream cakes for some of the members of my team (the ones that didn’t think I was crazy) when the page hit counter reached 100 for the first time [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Now I can’t download a weeks logs because the log file re-writes itself every two days because there are so many hits, on a good week it’s over 50,000 page views and 15,000 visitors.
But you know, I remember the first hundred page hit log report a lot better than the first 10,000 report. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
[ 21-04-2002: Message edited by: SadGeezer ]
It’s a shame, most sites are being blackmailed into charging, either you accept the good ISP’s charges or you go to a place where the space is limited and the server is unreliable.
It still irks me that the net was heralded as the last free bastion of civilized society.
I was thinking of going broadband, but what’s the point when there is no where to go?, the net is populated by porn, and there is little left for the imagination.
I used to spend hours surfing, now I go on for about an hour at best.
I think that’s why so many are grateful for your joint, it’s free and it is interesting, it’s troll and flame free and the site does exactly what it says on the tin!!!!
But if you gotta have a hobby, then I could I think of worse then getting your name and site talked about through cyber space.
Fair play for turning what was once a part time bit of fun into the institution it is today.
Squishy
[img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]GOTT EN HEMMEL!!
No matter what anybody says, remember one simple inescapable fact.
The Comic Sans font is, was and always will be a ****e font.
As fonts go Comic Sans sucks the ass soooo bad.Oy vey!
Looking at it, I think I liked the old one better. Or at least it took less time to load up.
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