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Re: More Y2K humor
From: Peter Murray <pem () po cwru edu>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 15:02:20 -0500
--On Sun, Jan 2, 2000 10:31 AM -0500 Peter Murray <pem () po cwru edu> wrote:
--On Sat, Jan 1, 2000 8:01 PM -0500 Peter Murray <pem () po cwru edu> wrote:Given all of the hype, we couldn't help but wonder what would really happen if our web server thought it was 1900. So last night (promptly at midnight EST) we rolled to the CWRU circa 1900 page:Well, unfortunately, the administration asked us to change it back. Perhaps they have no sense of humor -- it is hard to tell at this point (we'll find out Tuesday). In any case, the home page is restored, but if you didn't see it in the 33 hours it was up you can see what the page would have looked like at: <http://www.cwru.edu/y2k-home.html>
One more message on this topic. Apparently our little joke fooled Wired Magazine and The Washington Post. Our PR department issued a press release about it: <http://www.cwru.edu/pubaff/univcomm/y2k-joke.htm> which references: <http://www.wired.com/news/y2k/0,1360,33397,00.html> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/04/055l-010400-idx.ht ml> Peter -- Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager pem () po cwru edu Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio W:216-368-8834
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