It's even worse than it appears..
Wednesday June 25, 2025; 12:06 PM EDT
Finding Frontier#
  • I tried an experiment, go back as far as I can in archive.org on scripting.com and see where it gets me. The first try got me to a classified ads site I was experimenting with in mid-November 1996. A few weeks later, on December 3, there was a colorful directory that took you to all the sub-sites on the server, DaveNet, Frontier, Classified ads, our Midas Website (Macintosh Internet Developers Association), DocServer, a BBS, and Guestbook. #
  • I went digging around in the Frontier part. Lots of stuff there. By then we had been working on Frontier for eight years. It had been reborn once, from a Mac-focused single-user scripting environment to a networked one, all because the web had exploded and Apple didn't want us making system software for their platform. 😄 #
  • BTW, some of this stuff is still here. #
  • There are lots of paths to try out.#
  • This was where my blog home page was then. #
  • Then to DaveNet, and in the left margin Nerd's guide to this website. #
  • I love the screen shots that show what a good match the Frontier object database was to the way a website is organized. #
  • user.websites.davenet#

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