The Digger Archives Guestbook

Stand Up, Diggers All!

This web site started in 1994 as a project to put some of the Digger archives online. When I made the first major revision and designed the site in Microsoft Frontpage in 1995, it was easy to add a Guestbook page. I also set up a "Discussion Forum" section thinking that would be a place for people to carry on back-and-forth conversations. Very quickly, though, the Guestbook took over at the place everyone came to leave comments on each other's postings. For the next ten years (1995-2004) the Guestbook remained the primary place for discussions. Sometime around 2003, we started seeing a precipitous increase in spam messages being left on the Guestbook -- to the point that it became obvious we could no longer have an open form for leaving messages. So I set up an ASP-scripted Forum (which required registration) and we shut down the Guestbook.

Alas, the third full-fledged Discussion Forum died an untimely death, but the following is an archive of the first ten years of messages. Here are links to all those first years of the Digger Guestbook:

1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002-a (Jan-Jul), 2002-b (Aug-Sep), 2002-c (Oct), 2002-d (Nov), 2002-e (Dec), 2003-a (Jan), 2003-b (Feb), 2003-c (Mar), 2003-d (Apr), 2003-e (May), 2003-f (June), 2003-g (July), 2003-h (August), 2003-i (September), 2003-j (October), 2003-k (November), and 2003-l (December),  2004-a (January).

And, here are two special treats.

A compilation of postings by Steven Boyd during his active participation in the Digger Guestbook.

Jordan Zinovich, after applying his superb editing skills, sent back to the Digger Archives a special gift of light: Digger Guestbook Redux (1995 to 2004). (PDF format, 800k)

Digger Bread, distinctive for the coffee cans used for baking the individual loaves.