Recovering the Past: UK Global Learn Day II

The UK Global Learn website was developed in 1998 by a group of University of North London staff interested in using the internet and world wide web as a community information system. The website was formed part of an international network of sites developed for Global Learn Day II, anchored at Benjamin Franklin University in Southern California and co-ordinated there by John Hibbs.

Following Global Learn Day II, in October 1998, five key events occured:

• closure of the account on the host server, at the end of the subscription period;
• reconfiguration of the University of North London server, resulting in the breaking of many hypertext links to sites hosted there;
• movement of technical personnel;
• movement of academic personnel;
• changes in PCs on which files were stored.

Such events are to be expected, and are the cause of much of the transient nature of accessibility to information provided through internet technology.

Interestingly, however, in this case the whole site has been recovered from local storage, transferred to hard disk drive on a replacement PC. The site has now been placed on another server, so ...

join us on our journey back into history.