The Aptly Named, Sam's Blog » website http://blog.samgrover.com Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:08:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My first website http://blog.samgrover.com/2008/02/20/my-first-website/ http://blog.samgrover.com/2008/02/20/my-first-website/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:00:16 +0000 samgrover http://blog.samgrover.com/2008/02/20/my-first-website/ There was some discussion today on Twitter regarding the first website made by people. That got me to look into my archives for the first one that I made. It was on Geocities and it doesn’t exist anymore, not even on the Wayback Machine. But the second one that I made was hosted on the servers at PSU and still exists on the aforementioned machine here. It was almost identical to the previous site and looked like this.

My website (circa 2000)

Click on the image to go to flickr and see it with notes describing the content. Share your first site.

]]> http://blog.samgrover.com/2008/02/20/my-first-website/feed/ 0 The reviews are in … http://blog.samgrover.com/2006/06/20/the-reviews-are-in-%e2%80%a6/ http://blog.samgrover.com/2006/06/20/the-reviews-are-in-%e2%80%a6/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:19:49 +0000 samgrover http://blog.samgrover.com/2006/06/20/the-reviews-are-in-%e2%80%a6/ From the comments to this blog:

  • "Very Very nice information here… Thanks" - Double 'very'! I'm humbled. Thank you!
  • "I love this site. Good work…" - Thanks! I try. It's not really work :-)
  • "This is one of the best sites I have ever found. Thanks!!! Very nice and informal. I enjoy being here." - It's great having you here too. Stay as long as you like. Would you like a beer?
  • "Great job guys… Thank for you work…" - Wow! You actually thought that there was more than one person here. I must be doing an excellent job. Thanks!
  • "Hello, Admin! You are the best!!! Congratulations. Best regards from regular visitor of your site. ;) " - Thanks, regular visitor! It's as if I've known you forever; call me Sam.
  • "beautiful online information center. greatest work… thanks"
  • …

I guess those medicines these spammers are linking to must be quite euphoric. ;-)

]]> http://blog.samgrover.com/2006/06/20/the-reviews-are-in-%e2%80%a6/feed/ 2 It was bound to happen http://blog.samgrover.com/2006/06/13/it-was-bound-to-happen/ http://blog.samgrover.com/2006/06/13/it-was-bound-to-happen/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:06:50 +0000 samgrover http://blog.samgrover.com/2006/06/13/it-was-bound-to-happen/ samgrover.comI've set up a personal domain at samgrover.com. It is quite simple for now. I've also set up a photoblog there called "As It Is". It is about street photography and will have some of the photos I put up on flickr. Other sections remain to be filled and imagined.

I will move this blog to that domain when I've figured out a simple way to migrate it with all posts and comments intact.

P.S. I'm using DreamHost for hosting. Check them out and if you like their services, use the promo code SAMG to sign up with a large discount. Depending on the plan you get upto $97 off making this a really cool deal. I'm paying only $30 for an entire year using their Level1 plan.

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