I visited The Internet Archive a few days ago. The Internet Archive is an amazing internet resource which "was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format." In other words, it takes periodic "snapshots" of millions of websites and stores them online for historical preservation. It's pretty cool. Want to go back in time and see...

• Yahoo! in 1996 - When the focus was a Directory approach rather than Search.
  
• Google in 1998 - When it only indexed a minuscule 25 million pages on a Stanford server.
  
• The White House in 1997 - Gotta love those animated gif's.
  

In any case, I can't even remember why I was visiting the Internet Archive in the first place but I plugged my own website into The Wayback Machine. Other than laughing at how horrible my site used to look, I discovered that IA had historically preserved most of my blog posts from 2001 and 2002. Of course this is only important to me, but that's exactly what it's here for. I gathered up more than 50 old blog posts, and I've now re-posted most of them again! (Some weren't worth recovering). Check out my recovered archives:

• March 2002
• February 2002
• January 2002
• November 2001
• August 2001
• July 2001
• June 2001
• May 2001
• April 2001
• March 2001
• February 2001
• January 2001

Reading my old posts seems to reveal something about the me I was six years ago. Style wise, I apparently never gave any of my original blog posts any titles (but I gave them all titles when I re-posted them), and for some reason I rarely wrote more than a sentence or two. Have I simply just become long-winded? Seems so. I blogged a lot about tv awards, baseball, and fantasy sports. I blogged a lot about playing softball (I managed my own team) and several times about purchasing our first new home. On my fourth anniversary we said we were planning a trip to Las Vegas or Mexico for our 5th. It's sad to see that after 10 years we still haven't done that. I find it interesting that I never blogged anything about the September 11th attacks but I don't think I was consciously avoiding the subject. Other interesting posts include Maegan breaking her collar bone, wild speculation about a mysterious revolutionary transportation device, me becoming an uncle for the first time, and best of all... the swarm of killer bees.

Thanks Internet Archive.

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