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bgrier 🇨🇦 🍁

Was going through old physical photos, weeding out all the old 'nameless landscape and mountain' shots, prints with people on them that I now have no recollection of.... etc, as one does at this time of year.

Found this interesting one - that's my desk at work back in '96. The IBM tower behind the desk was the TV station's web server. The hardware stack on top was the ISDN connection to our ISP. At that time, local ISP's didn't offer web hosting of the kind we wanted/needed.

If you want a giggle, check out the Wayback Machine snapshot of the site.

Heh, the system specs:
'Our webserver is an IBM PC Server 320 with 3 gigabytes of hard disk space, 156 megabytes of RAM, running on an Intel Pentium 90mhz processer (with the ability to upgrade to dual Pentiums).'

web.archive.org/web/1996123014

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A retro office desk from 1996 with a brick-pattern wall in the background. The desk is crammed with CRT monitors, an IBM tower functioning as a web server, and an ISDN modem stack. Papers, files, and old office equipment complete the scene, capturing a tech-heavy, pre-dot-com-era workspace.
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Screenshot of the ITV station's website in 1996, featuring a textured background, bold 'Breaking News' headlines, and blocky navigation links. Highlights include a "Snake Scare!" headline, Comic Sans-esque fonts, and a delightfully dated "The Toon Crew" logo.
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Jan 05, 2025, 22:24 · · · Phanpy · 4 · 18
Molly B

@bgrier I worked at a TV station in 1997. Our *weather* department had its own server (although tbf, our weather department was developing its own meteorology software). We had a web server, but paid a local company a lot of money to host & manage our Real server.

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