[LINK] 18 January 1960 - working on the sydney-melbourne coax

[Roger Clarke]

On 21/1/22 6:43 pm, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Put together some stuff in 2005 - but my brother asked about it this
> week - alas it is in HTML on a CD...an old fashioned printed book now
> seems a very  impressive a medium!

The multiple family web-sites I run are all in HTML 3.2, hand-cut.

It was, seriously, easier that way.  Dreamweaver??  <spit>

And - shhhh! - browsers still cope.

Yes, books will outlast all of that, despite the promise XML brought.

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> On 21/1/22 10:46 am, Roger Clarke wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>> It would be interesting to know how well and how long that cable coped.
> 
> Wikipedia to the rescue: "The Sydney-Melbourne co-axial cable was
> officially opened on 9 April 1962.[2]"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia
> 
> and the facebook post source:
> https://www.smh.com.au/technology/from-the-archives-three-capitals-now-linked-by-coaxial-cable-20190403-p51ae2.html
> 
> 
>> (And don't start me on the capture of family history data ...).
> Put together some stuff in 2005 - but my brother asked about it this
> week - alas it is in HTML on a CD...an old fashioned printed book now
> seems a very  impressive a medium!
> 


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