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Meet Miguel. He’s got balls!

Web sites come and web sites go, but with a little effort you can pull an old one out and show it off. Kind of like a grand parent’s brag book I suppose. Where were you when Republicans were touting a Revolution instead of trying to quash one?

Today I tackled a little project I’ve been meaning to for a long time. What finally got me moving was the addition of an extension to my Firefox web browser called ScrapBook which gives me the ability to download an entire web page, or web site, to my computer. One may find many reasons for saving a copy of a web site, but my motivation was to try and correct a terrible oversight on my part many years ago. I simply forgot to keep copies (or I subsequently lost my copies) of web sites I authored in the 1990s.

Fortunately, the world wide web has a pretty good memory and considerably better facilities for remembering ancient web sites than I do. (Hey, 1995 is virtually Iron Age, web-wise.) So, after installing my nifty new browser extension, I headed over to The Wayback Machine and recovered a copy of my first web site. After a bit of reworking the links and code in my old pages I was able to reconstruct my initial contribution to the World Wide Web; such as it is. While www.nguworld.com may no longer exist as a working domain, its content now lives on here at www.golfront.org, pretty much exactly as it looked in 1995.

This is as it should be, as you’ll see if you check it out. It was that content that eventually inspired my current domain name. It also inspired a little enmity from the targets of my ire at the time. I offer no apology though, even after more than a decade. Quite the contrary, they deserved it and I’m proud of the barbs I tossed, even if the presentation seems primitive by current standards. I just hope that I can bring golfront.org up to the standard of the ideas that inspired it.

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