Display full version of the post: Oh my oh my: labs.blogs.com and the internet way back machine

AliveInTheLab
23.08.2013, 04:00
"If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do, is to save every day 'til eternity passes away..."���Jim�Croce The internet way back machine is the new version of the Library of Alexandria from Ancient Egypt in that you can browse through over 240�billion (billion with a "b") web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. You can check it out for yourself. http://archive.org/web/web.php I used it to look at my blog. It was a blast from the past. Look at this version from May�14,�2007. The blog had only been around for about a month. Look at that banner and picture. Holy cow. I still had contact lenses. Now look at a year later, May�13,�2008: You can see that I added badges to the Autodesk Labs site for�What's for me?�and What's New?. At the time, the Labs home page could not be viewed as sorted by Industry nor by Product, so�I created blog pages to prototype this idea. Those pages still exist as historical archives. Now check out July�15,�2009. The Autodesk Marketing team provided me with less garish banners. I added a widget that showed the geographical locations of visitors to the blog. Facebook and Twitter start to have a presence. Then there's April�20,�2010. I created a banner using the suspension mechanism that we featured in Project Freewheel that eventually graduated to the Autodesk Freewheel we have today. If you look at January�3,�2012, you can see I took the Labs idea literally and used imagery from a chemistry set. When I was in 8th grade, I wanted to be a chemist. For my face, I was using the mesh-picture generated by what is now 123D Catch: Thanks for taking a walk down memory lane on a Friday. Memories are alive in the lab. Go to the original post...