30 years Homepage in the Internet

 In the early 90s I made my first online / Mailbox experience with my PC and a 2400 Baud Modem. Mailboxes in Germany were most of my experience. Making Phonecalls at that time was very expensive and so the online experience was always a short experience. 
In 1994 I was finally member of the Compuserve "Imperium" I was one of the first 100.000 Internet users with Compuserve in Germany. Isn't that crazy ? I created my first Homepage at "http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/M_Kahle2/" in 1995/1996

I was using Paint Shop Pro already at that time and other tools to minimize scanned Pictures to allow a quick loading with at that time 9600 Baud and later 14.4k Baud. Scaling down and optimizing was essecntial at that time. I used a Mustek Scanner to scan my pictures. I had that Homepagetil 1999 when I used a different Provide (1und1) with a free purespace account. 
From there on I then got my first own domain bigmek.de in 2002. That is my domain since then and I have a few more (https://trabi.bigmek.de , https://cougar.bigmek.de ...)
I was using AOL later for the Internet access and when I finally cancelled my old Compuserve account, the Operator thought I was telling him the wrong User ID Number. He said, that must be a higher Number, I said, no that is a accound from 1994... in 2009 Compuserve was history. AOL is also more or less history. In the 90s they made always Advertisment.... 15 Million users Worldwide, 25 Million, 30 Million. Now Billions use the Intenet. Lots of Scam, misuse etc.

Well, I was no Bezos, Zuckerberg or so and I never made something outstanding online. Even though I had some good ideas..but I was not risking anything. So it is like it is.. I am proud of being a Internet User from a long time already, from the early times. Where I even had the INternet Yellow Pages book at home (yes, there was a yellow pages available for the whole Internet at the mid 90s. 
Here are some screenshots of my old Pages:

First Homepage:

Later bigmek.de Homepage:

check out some old stuff there:
http://bigmek.de/digital.htm
http://bigmek.de/links.htm

http://bigmek.de/me.htm

http://bigmek.de/tour.htm
http://bigmek.de/art.htm

http://bigmek.de/cougar.htm

Trabant Inspection "repair"

 Every two years a car that is older than 3 years has to get inspection. My Trabant was ready again. I only drove like 700km in the past two years and I did not not expect big trouble. Well, I had a younger Inspector who has not seen many Trabants so far. He defintely asked me, if the right pedal is the pedal for acceleration. Well., as for any other manual driven car.Anyway. He checked the old inspection report which showed nothing. So he wetn under the car and was complaining about the dirty axle boots. Ok, I haven't cleaned them in the past years, but I also did not notice any issue there. So the Trabant failed the first inspection. He just said, clean it all up and check then come back.
So I did that. Well, I found one axle boot to have some broken rubber part. Ok one out of four. So I decided to install new inner ones at the gear box. I wanted to check the gearbox anyway. 
I ordered the parts and since I do not have a lifting platform I decided to unmount Motor and Gearbox in my garage. I have done that already three times or so. It went fine. The engine and gearbox arenot that heavy, at least not for me. After removing them I cleaned the engine bay, drained the gearbox oil and resealed the drainscrew. Everthing else looked just fine for a 42 year old car. Some little rust here, a small dent there.Putting the gearbox back was the hardest part, since the axel slipped out a few times. I bought the right grease but the parts have to match on each side and I was sweating a lot :-) After putting the long right axle in, the shorter left one was easier.
After putting the engine back in, put all the hoses, cables to the right places I started the engine and it wookred right at the first attempt. Dagmar and I made a little trip and drove directly to the Inspection..:Which worked fine and I got my sticker :-)