Thursday, April 2, 2015

The OI website is twenty-one years old

As of this month, the website of the Oriental Institute is twenty-one years old. In celebration, feel free to buy me or John Sanders a drink.

For a glimpse of the way the website looked in the past you can go to the Interet Archive's Waybck Machine, where it has been archived 537 times between May 8, 1997 and March 17, 2015.

An official history of the website is here.  Imagine running server with 20MB of RAM, and 250 MB of online disk storage. Those were the days.