Interesting article in the L. A. Times

[charles~richard]

This appeared in the April 3 Times, just now getting around to scanning and posting it.

 

[camelotshadow]

wow

he made it out of a old soap box fan motor & pillow case
sold thr patent & the rest is hoover history

I feel for him
My rugs & my health have been better since I have gotten the rainbow
water cleaned the rugs
& been giving them the kirby, beating by hoover & filter queen treatemts

 

[charles~richard]

Yes, the fan, soap box and pillow case are well-known and well-beloved Hoover lore. See link. Try to ignore the ugly and outdated layout. I reeeeeally need to do some work on my site!


http://www.137.com/museum/hoover.htm

 

[camelotshadow]

OOOOh Don't be Humble,,,, Your site is a MASterpiece

I have enjoyed perusing!

 

[charles~richard]

Well thanks... the content is by and large okay, but some of the pages' layouts are outdated and tacky looking. But there are just so many hours in the day.......

I have been creating web pages by hand since 1994. My first web site went up on the old CompuServe service way back in the Dark Ages in 1992, when you had to build your site with kludgy, hair-pulling fill-in templates.

The next step was to learn HTML and hand-code the pages from scratch (which I still do as a last step because there are certain refinements that you can't do in web authoring programs).

Then, ultimately, the way to go was to use a good web authoring program. My favorite is DreamWeaver. Couldn't live without it now. (My least favorite is Front Page, another typical bloated, kludgy, over-wrought, bug-infested MSoft product with a lot of features you don't want and without most of the ones that you do.)

One of these days I need to get around to learning Flash, CSS etc. but, again... "so many web pages, so little time."

 

[dial-a-nap]

Interesting article - it makes you wonder if anyone thinks about such history when they're brining home their sixth vacuum in three years from Wal Mart?

 

[ian88]

I doubt it, hell I don't and I was a collector.