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Brendan Tompkins [MVP]

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Too Cool - the Wayback Machine

I'm always the last one to find out about stuff, but this is so cool, that I had to blog about it.

Have you ever told someone, “I developed company X's website” when in fact, the site has been re-developed numerous times since you worked on it?  Sometimes this can work out in your favor. For example, I worked on Cannondale's site back in the day.  Today this is a cool site, so people say “wow that's impressive!” But other times it can work against you, like when the site is not on the web any more, or has changed for the worse.  For example, the first site I launched back in 1995 for Analysis & Technology, Inc. is  gone.  Enter the Wayback Machine.   It will let you time-travel so to speak, and let you view an old version of a site.  So, here's the version of Cannodale.com that I worked on.  Not so impressive, huh?  But here's Analysis & Technology's site circa 1995.  Not bad for 1995, if I do say so myself. Especially when you consider that www.sun.com looked like this.

-B



About Brendan Tompkins

Brendan has been programming with .NET since the first public beta and is owner and operator of Port Technology Services, a consultancy company providing .NET application development services to the Maritime industry. In July, 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET. He's also a proud co-founder of failed .COM startup Intrinsigo, and has had a hand in the failure of numerous other businesses. He currently runs CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us, and lives in Norfolk, Virgina with his wife Tiara and son Ian.

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