1918 quotes, no submissions
I was reading some design journals today, and kottke had linked to an article about the internet archive... so I got completely sidetracked in looking up some of my old sites to see what I could find. I didn't find anything remotely useful, but I did find various old ancient versions of this website dating back right to the start, back in 2000 sometime.
A bit of history - back when I first built the site, it used a textfile to store all the quotes, and submissions were unmoderated. Over July/August 2001, there was an incredible amount of lame stuff being posted, so sometime around the very end of August/beginning of September of that year, I completely closed submissions, pending a reworking of the scripts. When the scripts were re-written and archive reopened in January 2002, Tim - in his new role as moderator - went through and massacred ~60% of the quotes. The rest is history.
So, while I was rooting through the web archive, I found a dump of the entire archive, dated September 3rd, 2001. I can't be entirely sure, but I'm guessing that this was probably a day or so after I closed the archive to submissions - certainly, there had been no quotes submitted the next time the front page was archived in November '01. I was feeling rather nostalgic, so I converted it into a textfile and uploaded it to the server.
So... if you're interested in what the archive looked like before Tim got to it and massacred everything, the answer looks surprisingly like this (349K .txt file).
For the exceedingly curious, have a poke around the archive yourself - the URIs you'll be interested in are http://www.jonpearse.f2s.com/ev3/ and http://ev3.jonpearse.net.
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Oh, and some people may notice that the RSS feed is somehow broken. I'll fix this as soon as I've worked out what's wrong with it :)
-jdp
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