...the sins of the past...

Working in Information Technology always carries with it the need to balance things. Balance keeping projects alive when all around you is going up in flames because of another project that... well... stuffed it all up. Resources have to be pulled from places where they are already thinly stretched, etc, etc...

No technology organisation is immune to this...

And yet, in the darkest hour of the night when a glimmer of hope is on the horizon - actually it is the sun in most cases coming up - you stumble on the most amazing things with colleagues at work.

And this particular evening a few weeks back was no different. Another small victory for the IT crowd this particular evening where we walked out the heroes due to a small thing that was missed and had to be corrected urgently, etc, etc.

BUT...

This evening I was introduced by Marcio to the INTERNET ARCHIVE WAYBACK MACHINE.



Totally useless it may be, but the ability to go and look up the landing page of any web site in the world at various stages over the past decade or so is really just - well - quite cool. To see what the epitome of web interface technology was and visual graphics a decade back is really - well - at the best of times - quite shocking and appaling.

So saunter over and have a look at
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php


If you do not find at least some amusement from this site, you will at least be amused to see how some of your messes of the past have been written into the history of the web - like when the web crawler decided to come by on the day that you had you worst downtime in history and "The website is currently unavailable" is written into the history of time in a place where you cannot go fix it.

Have fun...