Hi everyone,
Just for fun, it's worth noting that today is MCN-L's 20th birthday. The
list launched on March 9, 1996: back when HTML 2.0 was the latest,
greatest version, as were Macintosh System 7.5.3 and Windows 95. 1996
also was the year when the first significant number of museum websites
launched in all their initial glory,* some using what was then
cutting-edge, table-based layout.** Which is to say, it was a long time
ago--so long ago that it still made sense to have an MCN Internet SIG!
If you're curious about the inaugural MCN-L post, it's in the archive:
<https://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l%40mcn.edu/msg09558.html>
It's pretty remarkable how much knowledge the MCN community has shared
on this list over the years, how many helpful leads so many people have
suggested and harvested here, and how useful the list continues to be as
we move forward--even as other information-sharing channels, spaces,
apps, and platforms flow and ebb, and often fade away. Imagine all the
things thousands of people have accomplished more effectively over two
decades with peer-to-peer, collegial help from this list.
Happy birthday, MCN-L, and many more.
cheers,
Rob
* Several museum websites from 1996 are represented on this page:
<http://museumnerd.org/2014/03/13/10-vintage-museum-web-pages-from-the-1990s/>
** This was so early in the history of the Web that the formal RFC for
HTML Tables actually wouldn't be published for another two months, but
tables were coming into use: <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1942>
--
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA
rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965
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