P.net in perspective

[Peter Voice]

P.net on Dec 13, 1998, http://web.archive.org/web/199812120...erformers.net/

some links still work.

[Jim]

Come on Peter, That was practically yesterday.

How about THIS:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970204160403/www.smirk.com/busking/comments.html

And going back to the very first posts EVER:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970609231527/www.smirk.com/busking/oldbbb.html

Peter Voice, There's a mention of Chalk Circle on that second link!

Ten years, folks!

[Jim]

And here's the first links page with every variety act on the web in October of 1997:

http://web.archive.org/web/19971008141637/http://www.smirk.com/busking/busklinks.html

[Rex Boyd]

Oh mannnn! This time-warp thing is doing my head in. The worst part is that as I read through the old posts I'm still kind-of half remembering reading them the first time round, but yet I still have trouble remember where I was gigging two days ago.

Rex

[Lynneski]

TEN years! Woot! That's, like, practically all the way back to the amoebic level of evolution on the interweb timescape, innit?

Congrats, street blatherers. Y'all have talked up a decade. Can't imagine a time without it, actually. Not to mention the blessing of keeping in touch with people we'd only see once every five years otherwise. Thanks, Jim. And merry everything.

Peace.

[Peter Voice]

I just typed p.net into http://web.archive.org/ to try and find Dec '97, I forgot that smirk was the original domain.

That site (web.archive.org) was incredibly valuable during my legal battle with my ISP, Justnet/Sublime. You can find a staggering number of supposedly lost/defunct/ files there.

I think it's worth looking at the simple origins of p.net, what it has grown into and the contribution that it and it's members have made to all of us but Rex is right about the time warp for me when I read it.

It is easy to forget how raw the internet was in it's infancy, the surges and crashes that p.net has survived. What is remarkable is how such a divergent community saw the value of Jim and Rex's concept and turned it into an iconic tool.

Jim, Rex and all who sail on the good ship P.net, you'all have a happy and safe festive season, ya hear, and a better than good new year.

PS. Chalk Circle (at least Bev and I) are still at the address mentioned in the early p.net posting but after 16yrs are moving out to the edge of the desert between Melb and Adelaide in Feb. next year.