@58db300d It was from a normally trustworthy, left-leaning account here, but I guess lefties can either get it wrong or deceive. Strangely, I havenʼt seen that account for a while so Iʼll have a look right after I post.
@efc162a0 Go for it, as I didn’t redo the first Lucire home page and I regret it! I did re-upload some retro pages though, at least the ones I could access:
https://lucire.com/insider/20230110/five-from-1999-a-more-experimental-optimistic-time/
But yeah, screenshots took up a lot of space in those days—no PNG and TIFFs were the most reliable form, and I didn’t want to keep heaps of TIFFs. A real pity. We were making history but didn’t save the early stuff for posterity!
@efc162a0 I hear you about the Wayback Machine. This was a screenshot of a page of ours from 1997, but it shows an errant semicolon in the company name that was not there. I used to code & without the amp; because Netscape rendered the ampersand correctly anyway. I suspect Archive.org doesn’t know this and somehow messes that up.
https://lucire.com/insider/20220602/a-25th-anniversary-retrospective-leading-up-to-lucires-launch-in-1997/
A real shame that it does not have the first home page in October 1997 and the CD-ROM where I stored it has become corrupted!
Had to use this weird #Microsoft stuff for some mahi. Strange programs. There’s this one called Word. The last one we licensed ourselves was 97. Apparently, they kept making it and it’s part of this thing called Office 365. Just like 97, kerning is not switched on by default. That’s fine if we’re using an 80-column bitmap display. I guess it’s still 1985 in Redmond.
@4dfae064 Very much so. They are all linked, since this is one thing that unifies a lot of Chinese New Zealanders. Most of us have been very miffed about this since the start, but I guess it took years before we found each other and discovered we had each complained in our own way—and were ignored by the NZCLW Trust.
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