This Is Way Cool 😎👍 Today's #FlashbackFriday from #25YearsAgo 📟 The 2001 Radio & Records (R&R) Conference in LA @ The Century Plaza Hotel🏨 📻💿 #dotFM Sponsored the Computer "Email" Terminals. 📧🖥️

@annika I read Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) https://pluralistic.net/ blog where he does a 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 1 year ago links and yesterday one of his #25yearsago was his first #BoingBoing post https://web.archive.org/web/20010124080600/http://boingboing.net/2001_01_01_bloggerarchive.html

Made me #nostalgic I also realise how lucky I was to be in my early 20s back then just as the web was good, the endless possibilities.

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[11:39] Family of Galway soldier killed in Lebanon in 1999 receive service honour medal

Tánaiste and Defence Minister Simon Harris has honoured the family of a young Galway soldier who was killed while on peacekeeping service in Lebanon 25 years ago.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/family-of-galway-soldier-killed-in-lebanon-in-1999-receive-service-honour-medal/a2092088118.html

#Tánaiste #Defence #SimonHarris #Galway #Lebanon #25yearsago

Family of Galway soldier killed in Lebanon in 1999 receive service honour medal

Tánaiste and Defence Minister Simon Harris has honoured the family of a young Galway soldier who was killed while on peacekeeping service in Lebanon 25 years ago.

Irish Independent
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🪷 #25YearsAgo! On 6 October 1998 #MatthewShepard was beaten into a coma in a homophobic hate crime in Wyoming that shocked and galvanized our world. On 12 October 1998 he succumbed to his horrific injuries. He is a martyr saint of #Antinous! Full tribute here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/10/matthew-shepard-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷
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ON   this sad day we honor a young gay man who was brutally murdered: Matthew Shepard, who died at 12:53 am on Monday, October 12th, 1998. H...

#OnThisDay #25YearsAgo, @Veen wrote #HotDesignTips for WebMonkey:
1. Never, ever put a word in a graphic. Text is text. Graphics are graphics. Don’t confuse them.
2. […] get something on the screen immediately, and make it really interesting.
3. You have […] like 15 seconds. Be very fast.
4. How well does your site show up in search engines? […] Find out, then tweak your meta content accordingly.
5. Users […] came for your content. Give it to them — fast and simple.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991012022111/http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/34/index1a_page6.html

Webmonkey: design: Hot Design Tips

Welcome home STS-91! 🌎

#25YearsAgo today, Space Shuttle Discovery touched down at @NASAKennedy, closing out the Shuttle-Mir Program.

Find out how lessons from Shuttle-Mir paved the way for the @Space_Station: https://go.nasa.gov/3WU3eak
#NASAhistory

25 Years Ago: STS-91 Closes Out the Shuttle-Mir Program

Space shuttle Discovery paid the last American visit to the Russian space station Mir during the STS-91 mission in June 1998.

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#25YearsAgo today, Space Shuttle Discovery launched from @NASAKennedy for STS-91, the final mission to dock with the Mir Space Station.

Learn more about the mission: https://go.nasa.gov/43zOzmS
#NASAhistory

25 Years Ago: STS-91 Closes Out the Shuttle-Mir Program

Space shuttle Discovery paid the last American visit to the Russian space station Mir during the STS-91 mission in June 1998.

NASA
#1998 #25YearsAgo Worked at Cygnus Solutions in Sunnyvale as a Software Engineering Manager. Started year living in ex-wife's in-law unit. Bought a house in Redwood City early in the year. Played West Side Story, On the Town, and Miss Saigon. Got back in touch with Jade.

#25YearsAgo today, STS-87, the 8th Space Shuttle flight of 1997, launched on its way to the @Space_Station. One of the notable achievements from this mission: Takao Doi became the first Japanese citizen to walk in space!

Check out other STS-87 highlights: https://go.nasa.gov/3ArHqsC
#NASAhistory

NASA - STS-87