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After a long spell of absence, during which I have been alternately unwell, away from London, busy and finally un-creative [that’s the sign that I am getting back on writing mode!], I thought of updating this blog again. The reason is the discovery of http://web.archive.org/ . Well, you could have known about it already, but I did not – and being able to see sites which are long gone, was nostalgic and memorable. For those who have never visited this before, it may be a great experience in power of the internet. This site archives pages / sites [and changes in them] over years, and you can actually go back many years and see how things evolved for your favourite site. For example, the first site I tried on was http://www.netprotraining.com/ , a company I ran in 1999 – 2000, but then it folded and the domain name has been taken by somebody else. And, to my surprise, it spawned up not just one version, but monthly versions – between mid-2000 and 2001 [by the time I left the company]! And

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