Twenty years of SUCS
As the History page tells us, SUCS was founded in the summer of 1988 which, of course, means that the society will be twenty this coming academic year.
It occurred to me in June that we really ought to do something about this, and in a discussion on Milliways, I suggested that we set up a website to gather as much of SUCS's history as we can find in backups, archive.org and peoples' brains.
On Friday, Arthur set up a new subdomain for the purpose, I installed PmWiki on it, and so we got the ball rolling. After quickly creating a skin for the site in keeping with my sucs.org design, I headed off in search of SUCS history.
The vast majority of it was from 1997 and later, which is hardly surprising, given that archive.org was set up in 1996 and had only indexed our site once that year.
Having assembled a basic time line for the society, I then spent yesterday looking through my old backups for old SUCS posters and so on. Interestingly, despite being nearly ten years old, I didn't have any problem reading my backup CD-Rs.
The results are now available for all to see at http://twenty.sucs.org/. Hopefully, we'll get some contributions from other people soon and the site will start to grow!
[ Entry posted at: Sun 05 Aug 2007 01:37:01 BST | 0 comment(s)... | Cat: SUCS ]