The fall of the website

You know what really slams my salami? Every 2-3 years I like to go online and check out my old website I made freshmen year of college. It was pretty simple given that I did all the HTML coding by hand. And I don't know how to code in HTML, so it was just a (2x2) table with 4 links. There was an About me, a Music and a Other. But the only page that really mattered was the one that listed all my old High School Newspaper articles. I had meticulously scanned and uploaded every article I wrote for my High School Newspaper, The Lahser Page.

The quality of the scanned images wasn't great but the articles themselves were downright hilarious. Since the newspaper advisor was usually high during the class, we had pretty much total creative control over the articles that got published. The articles were read by the teachers, students, parents and administration. I included in one article how a member of the marching band touched a stinky poo at band camp thinking it was fake. The best part was that it had nothing to do with the actual article. I wrote some really bad stuff, but in a really good way.

Apparently after you graduate you can keep your @umich.edu email, but they remove all your MFile documents. This effectively wiped out the best archival collection of angst-riddled writing I ever curated. I have no idea how to get it back. Even if I can find the original files somewhere, I will forever lose the pithy one line descriptors of each article. That is unless any of you happen to have taken a screen shot of my webpage and filed it away in case this very scenario unfolded. So I ask of my readership did any of you happen to archive my website for me? No?

I'm very distraught that Michigan decided to delete my entire body of work without consulting me first. They can't bother to keep my tiny website hosted for a few years, but Comcast is still hosting the website I made when I was a 14.

http://home.comcast.net/~rusty7887/index.htm

(I will try to find a copy of Cucumber Man and put it on the blog)