Saturday, March 28, 2009
Little pieces of my heart
Every once in a while I go on a sentimental journey back to websites I once maintained. This morning, for the first time in a number of years, I checked out the IU Alumni Association site that I tended 12 years ago.
It’s undergone I-don’t-know-how-many redesigns since my day, but I never mind. Time moves on and I’m sure I’d hate the looks of my 1997 idea of cool if I had a look at it now. In fact, I don’t even want to check the wayback machine for fear of a cringe attack.
I did spot one little bit of my snarky copy that was either preserved or overlooked on the license plate lobbying page:
“What do Indiana, Tennessee, and New York have in common?Maybe only one thing: IU license plates!”
Funny to think about web development back then. If anything interactive was needed for the site, I was all about CGI/Perl, and flat text files were the only databases I thought I needed. And we got by; it was fine for the time.
