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The Written Web

I was pretty sure I'd lost screenshots from my first year on the Web but they showed up again so I thought I'd better stick them up before another crash. At some point I will lose my motivation for archiving this stuff.

These are some stills of the first web site in Sydney, back in the day when all new sites were added to a list at NCSA (the US National Center for Supercomputing Applications) in Illinois. Not that anyone nowadays really needs a description of the Web in 1993 but that's what my Honours thesis, Cruising and Creating with WHype, was about. This was the year before the Web exploded into images and sound. The alpha release of Mosaic (shown in some of the pics) was a big deal.

My own effort, WHype was a browser/editing tool (so named because it sometimes wiped the page you were working on). I thought I was being very clever at the time using anchor icons to denote links in the page but the UI does look particularly crappy 15 years later...

Powerhouse Museum joins Flickr Commons

Shearing, round the flank


Originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection.

It takes two to make a mix... the Powerhouse Museum Sydney joins The US Library of Congress in releasing image collections with no known copyright restrictions onto Flickr.



While the maximum resolution on offer is 1024 pixels wide at the moment, it is great to see more institutions taking advantage of new forms of distribution and opening up their collections.



http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices