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Prompt: Living in the South
To begin, I want to emphasize that I do not consider Charlottesville to be in the “South” any more than I consider Washington, DC, a southern city. Even though it is not a large city, the City of Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, is truly cosmopolitan. As one ventures farther from the city,…
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Exciting news about the Wayback Machine!
If our early webpages for Judson College (home.judson.edu) in Marion, Alabama, look “home-made,” it’s because they were! We had such fun learning how to make them and such excitement every time we published a new page to the web. Thanks, Internet Archive, for saving these memories and adding the keyword search! For the last 15 years,…
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Wayback Machine Hits 400,000,000,000! A Judson College 1999 Digital Scrapbook
What I think is going to be just a cursory glance at the archived pages always turns into hours of clicking and remembering! Thank you, Internet Archive – how amazing that all this has survived! We knew that our Judson College website being archived, but did not pay much attention. The old pages looked very…
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Happy 50th Birthday, #BASIC – You were my inspiration!
I first met BASIC in the early 1980s when our new family Commodore 64 came with Introduction to BASIC, Part I. Wow – a machine that I could talk to, that would respond, and that loved logic as much as I did! I was truly hooked, and when the Internet arrived in the early 1990s, I took…
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Searching for Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama? Find it on the WayBack Machine!
I realized recently that the ruthk.net website had outlived it usefulness, so I took it down and mapped the domain to this WordPress blog. In addition to hosting websites for several non-profit organizations, the ruthk.net web space hosted some Judson WebCenter websites that had been located on the old home.judson.edu server before the makeover in…