I was just looking at my url…www.murdog.com and it hit me, that is a pretty cool url. I wonder how many people have done a search on this url and found that they couldn’t buy it. I have had it since 1998, and in web years, that is an eternity. I know a number of people who have purchased web domains and have had to settle for a url that they didn’t like or wasn’t their first choice.

In fact, the company that I work for www.genonow.com had to settle on its domain, and it is a site designed to create revenue. The initial plan was to purchase www.geno.com but that belongs to some dude down in Florida who has yet to do anything with it. C’mon bro, do something with it or give it up. It would be nice to have it.

Anyway, I am glad that I decided to start building and maintaining a site so long ago…in fact, it is just now hitting me that this year marks the 10 year anniversary of MurDog.com. Wow, we need to celebrate that. Or, has it been longer. I may have had this domain since 1995 or 1996. I mean, I was married in 1998, and it seems as though I had the site for at least a year or two before I met my wife. Wow, what a dilemma. Now, I don’t know. Hmmm.

How would anyone figure that out? Do you have any ideas. I guess I should remember, but I have always had more important things to deal with other than the site. It has always been simply a hobby and thus somewhat of an afterthought. If you have any ideas about how to find out how old a site really is, let me know.

I just went to www.archive.org and did a search on my site and it has records of it since 1999, but I am pretty sure that I had it longer than that, but for what it’s worth, it is pretty funny to look at what the site looked like back then. It doesn’t load correctly, but you can see enough of the site to get an idea. Here’s a hint, click on some of the links… they still work… amazing

What, are you kidding me? Today in the office I was trying to explain the sound of the Speak and Spell toy from Texas Instruments. It was a little laptop type game from the early eighties that looks ridiculous now but was the stuff back when it came out. Just like the Atari, this is one of those games that takes you right back to your childhood if you are currently in your 30’s like me.

You need to check out this online Speak and Spell. It works just like you remember. It even has the On and Off song/sound effect that I was trying to explain to my co-worker.