No, not the WABAC machine … the Wayback Machine! As clever as Mr. Peabody’s invention is, what we’re talking about here is the Internet Archive’s tool for looking at what the Web looked like long ago. It’s located at www.archive.org and is a great tool for inspecting, for example, how your own web sites have evolved.
Let’s take a look at what the Library of Dresan looked like, long long ago. Set the Wayback Machine to December 3, 2001, Sherman! (If you’re following along at home, you might want to play the theme music for Jeopardy while the page loads … this may take a while, the Internet Archive is stored on stone tablets). Alright, so the page looked like this:
*shudder*
In case you don’t “get” the many problems with this version of the site, let me point out (beyond the background which makes it nearly unreadable) that the site is “dedicated” to something (universal peace and harmony) different from what it was actually dedicated to (my random thoughts and musings) and then with that in mind I went and wrote a post called “Dedication” which appears right under that dedication? Need I go on?
Well, we can’t expect perfection right off the bat, can we? (Or ever. Shut up, voice of reason! I’m just sayin’. Shut up!) At least I haven’t done something dumb like, I dunno, making my site logo with Papyrus. That would be just too embarrassing for words.
-the Centaur
