Welcome to the beta of the new saila.com. Send in your bugs.
saila.com at five, MSN blocks Mozilla
Sometime this fall—the date lost being memory—is the fifth anniversary of this site. Orginally hosted at the former Toronto-based ISP, Interlog, at http://www.interlog.com/~saila/, it moved to its own doman (this one), in August of 1997 (the dot-ca edition came last November).
Over the past four years, saila.com has gone through a number of redesigns. But now thanks to The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, you can get a glimpse of what the site felt like from February 8, 1999 onward. What’s interesting is not the content (it’s still here), but the links.
In the main story from that first archive, I refer to The Financial Post being on CANOE, which is no longer the case. Follow the link from the archive, though, and you see the FP as appeared at the time.
This in an impressive historical record of the Web, despite only going back to 1996 (and having just a few sites from then).
Still, it’s fun to look at Yahoo! then and now.
And in another blast from the past, MSN.com (and MSN.ca) is not letting through some browsers, including some versions Netscape 4 and below, Mozilla (Netscape 6 gets in fine), Opera, and Lynx.
Seems Macintosh users are able to get in using any of the above. Seems to be a bastardization of the WaSP Browser Upgrade campaign. Given the loud and fast reaction to this, expect the problem to be corrected shortly, when the browser identification strings are modified.
Follow the discussion at (albeit, the very anti-Microsoft) Slashdot.