Lucire’s holding page prior to launch
Of course I remember there was a holding page prior to Lucire launching on October 20, 1997 at 7 a.m. EST, or midnight NZDT on October 21, 1997. I just didn’t remember what it exactly looked like, till I discovered it at the Internet Archive:
There was no semicolon in JY&A Media, not even then; this must be some Internet Archive bug since I didn’t use & for the HTML entity in those days. Most browsers interpreted a lone ampersand correctly back then. We also tried to save bytes where we could, with the limited bandwidth we had to play with.
Pity the other captures from the 1990s aren’t as good, with the main images missing. I still have them offline, so one of these days …
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Filed under: design, internet, media, New Zealand, publishing, technology, Wellington—Jack Yan @ 02.14
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