Over the past week, I delved into the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in an attempt to resurrect content from my old site. In the height of my blogging days, I used early versions of Wordpress. As I matured in my programming skills, I moved away from PHP (full story here).

While rebuilding this site using Hyde, I decided one of the features I wanted in reclaiming my content, was to bring in my old content from way back. I still have the tarball file that I dumped from the MySQL database including images and everything somewhere. I would prefer to go this route. And I’m not quite ruling it out if I ever happen to locate it. It should be rather straight forwards since I wrote those posts using the original PHP Markdown syntax.

My initial attempts at finding that file failed, however. I have two old computers that have various archives of my past on them. These archives range from giant MP3 collections, my long-lost DVD library in AVI format, probably ISOs of Linux distributions that no longer exist, and of course, my web presence. I have been known from time to time to be a packrat…even a digital packrat.

I have since reaped the content from the Wayback Machine and manually pasted it into Markdown-formatted files. It is now revision controlled with the rest of this site, hopefully to live forever and ever, with me in control of it.

I have (or will) deactivate comments on those pages and put a little notice at the top indicating that it is there for posterity only, and not interactive.