Random things in old archives

[brooksmoses]

I happened to be going through some old archives this afternoon, and came across some bookmark files.

Most of the links in my bookmark file from 2000 are dead. Some aren't, though.

Also, based on "date added" data in the 2002 bookmark file, I started reading Schlock Mercenary on March 30th, 2001 -- making it by far the longest run of webcomic that I've read. (I started reading Ozy and Millie in January 2001, but it ended. And although Sluggy Freelance is still going, it went strange and I stopped reading it a very long time ago.)

So now you know.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I miss Ozy and Millie.

I did buy my dad a Dragon Daddy T-shirt at one point, though. Because I Could Relate.

[seawasp]

How did Sluggy "go strange"? I'm not sure you can go stranger than trying to summon Satan via the Internet by spamming him, which was the very first strip?

Or did you mean it went SERIOUS with its strangeness? It did do that (although it has occasional returns to the original fluffy lunacy).

[nipernaadiagain.livejournal.com]

I am an archivist.

I nearly fell off my chair seeing your use of "old archives".

While my first thought had been of paper records, I am unable to consider even emails from year 2000 old.

Come to think of it - even when we talk about items that have gotten expired or gone off, I will call them expired or rotten rather than old.

... and now I am testing myself: "But what if you would find an abandoned sandwich from year 1990*, would you be ablke to call it old?" ... and I think not. Less than 50 is VERY hard to call old. Unless it is a dog or a cat, I think.

* not likely, those were hungry times here

[aedifica]

I think Sinfest is the one I've been reading longest now. I started reading Sluggy earlier (did you know my main email address is @sluggy.net ?) but I stopped at some point, too, when I gave up on having certain old tensions resolved and wasn't as interested in the new ones. But here, appropriate icon!