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[graham]

We were watching "Electric Dreams" on BBC Four last night, I could nt remember when we firt started messing with the internet , so I found this.http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/nov94/808state.html So 16 years ago..!amusing reading! who else had a site back then?
FSOL no doubt.

[solarex]

Remember how you spoke about this "new thing" the internet in the Partyzone show. That was august 94.

[nickking]

Back in 1994? Very few...

From what I can remember back then, Mixmaster Morris definitely had a site, The Black Dog, and possibly The Shamen?

A lot of sites (used) to be on Hyperreal, however a lot of the "mini" sites no longer exist - possbly on some kind of Internet Archive sites?

[solarex]

Spooky - Gargantuan has a website adress on the CD backside. And that is released in 1992. Although the one I've seen can be a re-release.

[markus]

I remember the Beastie Boys having a site really early on.

[Pob]

Have all of those 40 unfinished tracks now been finished? SOme obviously went on Don Solaris, others may have ended up on Outpost but are there more to hear?

[markus]

Over fifty tracks are on 808state.com...

[graham]

we lost a chunk of stuff in a computer crash in about 1995

[markus]

we lost a chunk of stuff in a computer crash in about 1995

Arrrrghhhhh!

[markus]

Which reminds me, an album worth of Benaco (Andy Barker) material apparently got lost due to a computer crash too...

[SteveC]

God imagine all that time and effort spent to suddenly lose it all, you must feel like commiting suicide. Its bad enough when you lose a page of text without saving it in time and have to redo it all, imagine a whole album, apparently it happened to Orbital as well.

[nickking]

Yes, I can only imagine what that must feel like - I've lost documents (etc) due to computer crashes, but nothing that couldn't be put right with a week or so work...

Nowadays, I backup my main personal interests (music/genealogy documents) onto a mirrored network drive at home (i.e. if one drive dies, then at least I can get it working again), which I then (at various intervals) backup onto a DVD-R...

[solarex]

A well known Danish artist had his studio broken into and they ran way with the computers including a lot of finished songs, that did not have an outside backup.

That's where you almost hope for a bootleg release of your songs.

[markus]

Yup there's a lot to be said for outside backup. In case of fire all your inhouse back-ups won't do much good.