Only 3.4 years remaining

~ 07 April 2004 ~

Ugh. I hate transferring data to a new machine. And I loathe backing it up.

Last week my work PC was upgraded to a matte black Dell 2.0 Ghz, a step above my #E5E4DA-colored Gateway 866 Mhz machine. Sadly, an upgrade to Mac OS X wasn’t part of the deal. Hail personal PowerBooks.

In the process of switching, I found one of my all-time fav screen captures, taken while transferring data a couple years back:

Other than the inserted red arrow, this is an actual capture—no Photoshop tricks here, Detective Slick. Apparently my machine stalled or something while transferring a paltry 500 MB of data.

I calculated 1,789,568 minutes in terms of days. That’s only 1,243 of ’em—3.4 years if anyone’s counting. At that breakneck rate, I’ve got only about a year left before I can transfer the next 500 MB of data.

Also in the process, I stumbled across another 50 or so screenshots, promptly adding them to my /screenshots archive. Someday I’ll faceplate a pretty page to house the screenshots. For now, here are a few of my favs from the recent addition:

Someone forgot to tell Farmer’s Almanac that print and web mediums really *are* different
MSN in the Palaeolithic period
For die-hard Adidas aficionados, Nike *cough* is “eevil, like the fru-eets of the dev-eel” (name that movie line?). But holy Peter this layout still looks good today.
WSJ’s embarrassing beginnings (sadly, this screenshot was taken around late 2000, believe it or not)
Excite headline blunder – government officials and mad cow disease? Maybe it wasn’t a blunder…

7 Comments

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1 Ryan Parman ~ 07 April 2004 at 11:39 AM

Hah! I remember that MSN redesign being touted as “great”, “excellent”, and “easy-to-use”. I forgot what the homepage looked like before that though.

I came across an old floppy disk with a prior version of my website on it (yes, on a floppy). This was 2000, so I believe it was version 14.0. I later came across a piece of paper that had a sketch of my ideas for the all-new version 10.0 of my website from back in 1998. (I’m on version 21.0 now, BTW)

On that same floppy, I found an images folder with the original Hotmail logo GIF — back before they were bought out by Microsoft. I believe that logo is from mid-1997.

I hope I didn’t throw the floppy away. I’ll have to see where I put it. Hmmm… *looks in drawers*

2 Hasan ~ 07 April 2004 at 01:15 PM

Being stuck on dial-up in a place where the phone lines only support 33k, that screenshot brought tears to my eyes (the good kind).

3 Cameron ~ 08 April 2004 at 08:13 AM

Ryan, let me know if you find the Hotmail logo. I’d love a copy of it.

4 KJC ~ 26 April 2004 at 11:59 AM

[Sorry, found this post late.] The movie quote is from the under-rated “So I Married an Axe Murderer.”

5 Cameron Moll ~ 26 April 2004 at 03:15 PM

Rock on, KJC.

6 Kim Siever ~ 18 June 2004 at 03:34 PM

“So I Married an Axe Murderer” is the movie.

Do I get a prize?

7 Cameron Moll ~ 19 June 2004 at 03:52 PM

Ding Ding Ding!