Internet PioneersI have been thinking about how far the web industry has come since the mid 1990's. When I first tried my hand at designing a website for the Development Board for Rural Wales there were only nineteen thousand sites on the world wide web. Today that number stands at over 36 Million, though it does finally appear to have reached a plateau.
Today I was discussing these figures with a client who failed to understand why they couldn't get to the top of the pile in the search engine rankings.
This harking back to simpler times encouraged me to update Dreamtargets with a piece that used to sit on my old personal website XPOhaas.
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CHC Multimedia 1997
posted by Paul Fillingham at 10:13 PM
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Weekend sunThis weekend my parents were away in London celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary. The trip arranged by me and my younger brothers was my Mum's first ever trip to the capital. By the tone of the telephone reports we received, they were having a good time, taking full advantage of the spring sunshine.
I'm not sure whether London is quite ready for my Mother's directness yet though? Apparently, whilst on an obligatory trip to Harrods she bumped into Mohammed Al Fayed and a couple of minders. Of course Val will talk to anyone, so she goes straight up to him and engages him in pleasantries as if she's known him for years. Which of course she has if you count all the TV appearences round about the time of Princess Diana's death.
The weekend was dominated by another Royal death and the subsequent lying in state of the Queen Mother. The news was full of it. That and the continued conflict in Israel and Palestine. I read a news cutting in the Guardian about the conflict which described how a couple of Israeli soldiers machine-gunned a door, behind which was a mother and young child. Somehow the account really connected with me and it made me feel very sad.
Riff and I have spent some time working on the introductory section to the 1980's book, bouncing emails back and forth all weekend. I also sent him a scan of an interesting Raleigh publication from 1961 featuring Saturday Night & Sunday Morning actress Shirley Ann Field, that was given to me by my (ex) Brother-in-Law Mark Macdonald. (Not sure if in-laws become ex-in-laws after a divorce?). We are building up quite an archive of historic documents relating to Raleigh.
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