Speaking of going way back...
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This recent post by Craig on the developerWorks Lotus team blog almost brought me to tears (big baby, suck it up!). I came to the rapid realization that SNAPPS too is going to turn 10 this year. That and, I vividly remember the site shown on that blog entry, and how I downloaded the Domino 1.1 server task plug-in on June 4, 1996 about a minute after it was posted. But I digress. So, I decided to dig a bit and see what SNAPPS looked like back then. I was able to find a few pages from 1998, which were mostly pasty-white backgrounds focused on building websites, having an Amazon.com bookstore, and this memorable tagline:
"If your website doesn't say SNAPPS, well, we didn't build it..."
So much for dry humor. I don't recall busting past a half million in revenues that year. A little more digging and I found this image, which was captured in November 2000. I remember it well, as it was the first design created by Viktor, and the basic concepts of the underlying Domino-driven model are still part of our site today. Thank goodness, the content has changed (though I like the bit about QuickPlace webcasts...). We kept this design for a while. Partly because we got busy, partly because it was modern for 2000, and partly because I thought the girl in the white sweater was hot.
You can find your own site or fun ones like this gem that I remember well -- Lotus.com, December 20, 1996 -- in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. And, in addition to the main sites, most of the links on each page are archived too! Have fun wasting amazing amounts of time!
This recent post by Craig on the developerWorks Lotus team blog almost brought me to tears (big baby, suck it up!). I came to the rapid realization that SNAPPS too is going to turn 10 this year. That and, I vividly remember the site shown on that blog entry, and how I downloaded the Domino 1.1 server task plug-in on June 4, 1996 about a minute after it was posted. But I digress. So, I decided to dig a bit and see what SNAPPS looked like back then. I was able to find a few pages from 1998, which were mostly pasty-white backgrounds focused on building websites, having an Amazon.com bookstore, and this memorable tagline:
"If your website doesn't say SNAPPS, well, we didn't build it..."
So much for dry humor. I don't recall busting past a half million in revenues that year. A little more digging and I found this image, which was captured in November 2000. I remember it well, as it was the first design created by Viktor, and the basic concepts of the underlying Domino-driven model are still part of our site today. Thank goodness, the content has changed (though I like the bit about QuickPlace webcasts...). We kept this design for a while. Partly because we got busy, partly because it was modern for 2000, and partly because I thought the girl in the white sweater was hot.
You can find your own site or fun ones like this gem that I remember well -- Lotus.com, December 20, 1996 -- in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. And, in addition to the main sites, most of the links on each page are archived too! Have fun wasting amazing amounts of time!
