Oh my oh my: labs.blogs.com and the internet way back machine
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Topic: Oh my oh my: labs.blogs.com and the internet way back machine
Posted By: AliveInTheLab
Subject: Oh my oh my: labs.blogs.com and the internet way back machine
Date Posted: 23.Aug.2013 at 04:00
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"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.
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 http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/labs-items-by-application.html" target="_self - What's for me? and http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/releases-on-labs-by-date.html" target="_self - What's New? . At the time, the Labs home page could not be viewed as http://labs.autodesk.com/industry - sorted by Industry nor http://labs.autodesk.com/product - 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 http://freewheel.autodesk.com - 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 http://www.123dapp.com/catch - 123D Catch :
Thanks for taking a walk down memory lane on a Friday. Memories are alive in the lab.
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