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Workbench is Going Back to 2008

This blog has needed a new look for a long time, but I've had a creative block about what I wanted that look to be. Like millions of other people I'm staying home during the pandemic (and I hope you're doing the same). With lots of free time on the weekends and no sports parking me on the couch, I'm tinkering with old websites and servers again. This weekend I finally found a web design I liked for Workbench. The one it had in 2008. This is a screen capture of the Workbench front page from ... (read more)

2020/05/07

AP Launches News Archive Going Back to '70s

Associated Press has quietly launched a beta of the AP News Archive, a free searchable database of AP news stories that goes back as far as 1974. The archive comprises at least 1.5 million articles at present, based on the approximate number of results returned in a Google search of the domain apnewsarchive.com. The AP touts the archive as being more accurate than that dodgy, not-to-be-trusted Internet: If you've tried to do historical research online, you know that there's a lot of ... (read more)

2013/01/08