Not Your Daddy’s Backups
Lucky for the internet (</sarcasm>), when I failed to stay current on my web hosting bill I was forced this week to create a new edition of the infamous– or is it the UNfamous– trashonthefly.com
Lucky for me, being a packrat has paid off and I have plenty of old versions of the site languishing in the dark recesses of my hard drive. You’d think that a folder called .carp_guidewwwroot would hold the backups, but this kind of digital poop needs to be carefully hidden in much more obscure locations.
Lucky for you, I have come across two old images that I had forgotten about that need to be shared with the world.
This first was a forum avatar used to pimp my site, kind of a cheap and sleazy free advertising scheme:
And this was the first thing you saw when you visited my site in 2004:
My only excuse for this behavior is that I have never used the phrase “web design” or “graphic design” on a resume.
Good to see you back online, LHD. I thought for awhile there that we’d lost you, like TFR. I’d still like to find a time to have you show me the ropes for carp on the fly.
Mickfly