The USMS Website Wayback Machine

The USMS Website Wayback Machine The USMS website has undergone several changes since its inception in 1996. There have been two wholesale redesigns of the website look and feel, plus a number of incremental changes in between the major redesigns. Click on the below links to see how it has changed. 1996 - The beginning December 1998 - First Major Redesign February 2005 - Second Major Redesign January 2009 - Minor Updates September 2012 - Minor Updates Great stuff! The Streamlines newsletters call out cool swimming websites; I think the time has come to recognize the swimming web sites that continue to honor the spirit of the mid-90's. Typical characteristics: HTML written in a text editor Page title is a placeholder like "Home" or "Untitled" horrible background graphics Comic Sans (yeah, I went there) has not been updated since... umm... You get the idea, so without further ado, the Zone and LMSC finalist web sites: http://www.dixiezone.org/ http://www.akmswim.org/ www.arkansasmasters.org/ http://www.kylmsc.org/ http://www.nelmsc.org/ http://www.ozarklmsc.org/ http://www.pvmasters.org/ http://www.simasterswim.org/ Any time you want to take a trip back to the epoch when Netscape roamed the earth, that list will have you off and running in no time. Tune in next week when we count down the top 5 most incomprehensible Team Unify club sites!

1996 - The beginning Ah, I remember 1996 well. That was the year matysekj aged up to the 55-59 age group.

Great stuff! The Streamlines newsletters call out cool swimming websites; I think the time has come to recognize the swimming web sites that continue to honor the spirit of the mid-90's. Typical characteristics: HTML written in a text editor Page title is a placeholder like "Home" or "Untitled" horrible background graphics Comic Sans (yeah, I went there) has not been updated since... umm... Ah, I remember those days well. Some suggestions for tiebreakers: -- lots of animated gifs:banana: -- fonts in different colors -- music that plays when the website opens -- liberal use of frames

Bummed your LMSC is too with it to make this list? Have no fear - the Geocitiesizer can help. You're welcome, Pacific NW! :bolt: it's... beautiful... :bow:

Ah, I remember those days well. Some suggestions for tiebreakers: -- lots of animated gifs:banana: -- fonts in different colors -- music that plays when the website opens -- liberal use of frames there are quite a few LMSC sites that still use frames. Some are quite hideous, but to make the finals in this category, a horrible background image turned out to be required. Nothing else causes the same response from the nervous system... I think nelmsc.org wins the title, now that I've had some time to reflect on it. That web site is just AWFUL.

Bummed your LMSC is too with it to make this list? Have no fear - the Geocitiesizer can help. You're welcome, Pacific NW! :bolt: I had a Geocities site way back when. I went for the "upload your own HTML" option. Written in a text editor, of course :D. By today's standards, very dated and boring, but much less annoying (at least to me).

So much fun to look back on that stuff. Great post. How about a Way-Back-Machine for SWIMMER Magazine? The archive only goes to 2005? How long have they been publishing it. www.usmsswimmer.com/issue.php I'd like to have entire collection of SWIMMER.

You get the idea, so without further ado, the Zone and LMSC finalist web sites: http://www.dixiezone.org/ http://www.akmswim.org/ www.arkansasmasters.org/ http://www.kylmsc.org/ http://www.nelmsc.org/ http://www.ozarklmsc.org/ http://www.pvmasters.org/ http://www.simasterswim.org/ Any time you want to take a trip back to the epoch when Netscape roamed the earth, that list will have you off and running in no time. Tune in next week when we count down the top 5 most incomprehensible Team Unify club sites! Bummed your LMSC is too with it to make this list? Have no fear - the Geocitiesizer can help. You're welcome, Pacific NW! :bolt:

I think nelmsc.org wins the title, now that I've had some time to reflect on it. That web site is just AWFUL. :woot: http://youtu.be/8MxGC1j2ogM. :applaud: :bolt:

This thread is reminding me that I said I'd have our club website done by next week. Clearly, I was not procrastinating, just waiting for inspiration. Time to fire up the text editor... :banana: