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Topic: S.P.A.C.E. website (from circa 1996)
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Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 12-03-2015 04:23 PM
  
While going through some printouts of early space related websites came upon this one from nearly 20 years ago called the "Space, Planetary, and Astronomical Cyber-Experience." |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 12-04-2015 11:33 AM
Okay. No response to this little bit of online archaeology? Here is page two of the website printout and Bravo to it's young webmaster.   |
Rocketman!
Member Posts: 121
From: Redmond, Washington, USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 12-04-2015 02:10 PM
Oh ... now I see what you did there. |
sev8n
Member Posts: 233
From: Dallas TX USA
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 12-04-2015 08:41 PM
Looks like you found a pearl, man. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-05-2015 10:18 AM
Indeed, S.P.A.C.E. was my first website, first built when I was freshman in college. It was one of the first space websites not run by NASA. The site served as a directory for finding other space websites, as this was in the days when search engines were still limited in their use and breadth. The site spun off a second website, Ask An Astronaut, which featured the first online forum for the public to interact with former and current NASA astronauts. Both sites were later acquired by Space.com (collectSPACE and Space.com came online on the same day, July 20, 1999). S.P.A.C.E.'s acronym name was given its definition (the "Space, Planetary and Astronomical Cyber Experience) through a contest. The winner, if I recall correctly, was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 12-19-2015 02:06 PM
Here is another webpage from 1997 when Robert had apparently become affiliated with the National Space Society as "cyber-editor" or something like that. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-19-2015 06:57 PM
If you want to get the full effect of what the site looked like in 1997, here is an archived version via the Wayback Machine. |
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