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Dale's Electronic Compendium

Established: Saturday, September 13th, 1997
Last content update: Thursday, October 19th, 2000

Hello and welcome!

This is the oldest surviving web page that I have ever coded. There was an older site, hosted by my first unlimited-time ISP, PIPELINE (which was bought by MindSpring). But I don't know what happened to that code.

The computer (you can almost see it) is a TRS-80 with 32K ( K not M !) of memory, two 5 1/4 inch floppies (lots of virtual storage!) a 300 baud modem (roughly 1/200th the speed of a 'normal' modem), a dot-matrix printer, and a special lower-case font chip to be able to do real word processing. This PC expired in the early 80's.

The cat, is Mau-Mau Amerikon (or simply Amerikon for short), who expired a bit after the TRS-80 did.

I have been serving my own webpages from a webserver installed on my home PC. The problem is that my IP address changes every time I boot my PC. I was updating this page with the dynamic IP each time I boot, but for some reason I started having problems FTP'ing to Angelfire. While I am figuring the problem out, you can get to my personal Webpage Server by clicking one of the following links:

GeoCities
Tripod
ProHosting
XOOM (NBCi)

One final link is dalenet.ods.org which, unfortunately, is not always reliable, but here it is.

Have a nice day. Come back soon.




My Page has been hit

times.
(Mostly by me).

Acknowledgements:


The welcome vocals that play when this page loads were recorded by Bob Kingsley, a professional voice-over man for the BBC, and for British TV stations Meridian and Anglia. He also does radio work and, evidently, did Web Work for a short period. Bob courteously agreed to customize a jingle for the Electronic Compendium! Isn't it great? Visit Bob at Webvox his website. Although he doesn't seem to do web work anymore, you still may find something for your own website.


Dale's Electronic Compendium jingle by Bob Kingsley, 1997


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