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24 November 2021

Video Web Finds - Wednesday 24 November 2021

So I hope you have had a good weekend.

So now it is time to enjoy a great collection of videos from around the internet.

Here are a selection of the latest Filofax videos for your enjoyment.

Please leave a comment on any of the videos you enjoyed and mention you saw a link on Philofaxy.
For tips on how to improve your videos, please see this post. Also this video too Webfinds
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Enjoy

23 November 2021

Free For All Tuesday - No. 564

So what questions or discussion points have you got for us today?

It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a more experienced user of organisers, we want to hear your thoughts, questions, opinions etc.

We are here to answer your questions.

Make today the one day you post a comment or a question.

It is Tuesday after all so fire away with any questions and comments.

22 November 2021

Filofax on the Internet?

I was curious about an element of the history of Filofax and their website the other day.

"When did Filofax have their first website?"

Should be a simple question to answer? Well sort of, looking at the catalogues we have in the archive, the first mention I see of a web address is in the 1999/2000 catalogues. 1999 in the case of a USA sales brochure and the full catalogue for UK in 2000

Remember in UK people would have still been on dial-up modems (56k) at best in 2000, ADSL broadband didn't start to get rolled out until 2002-2003. Any website would have had to been fairly streamlined to have worked back then compared to what we see today.

The first web address I found was http://www.filofax.com. Putting that in to the 'Web Archive' found captures going back to December 1996. But when you look at the page it displays 'The Daily Planner' with a Broadway, New York address with info@filofax.com And the fILOFAX logo on the page.

Later captures do display some of the elements I remember from the early 2000's such as the phone number for ordering! Also 'For best results use: Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.0!' I doubt if the download links work these days!

Another address in the USA used from 2000/2001 is www.filofax-usa.com or www.filofaxusa.com the earliest captures I could find that displayed anything close to what we would recognise as a 'web page' was the in January 2001.

Sadly the Web Archive only captures the text and not all of the images.

The web site was just a virtual catalogue in the early days, there was no on-line ordering back then. You could order by phone and sadly missed these days, they included a list of stockists, that you could filter by county.

It was an interesting look back at the early pages of the internet world wide web. I created some web pages in 1994 for our internal network at work, all very unofficial at first! I created a website for Alison's business in about 1995 but the earliest capture I could find was 1998! Most of it still works too! Website coding was a very simple affair and by hand back then!

It was also the start of the Pembury Village News website.... which is still going today at https://pembury.org!! But that's getting a bit off topic....

What do you miss on the current Filofax website that was included in the past?

21 November 2021

Silent Sunday

Black personal Kensington

20 November 2021

Web Finds - Saturday 20 November 2021

So now it is time to enjoy a few blog posts from around the internet, so grab a drink and make yourself comfortable for our weekly round-up.

Here are some Philofaxy posts you might have missed this week:

Here are the latest Filofax and other brand blog posts from around the Internet. Don't forget to leave a comment on the posts you enjoyed reading, all bloggers enjoy getting comments.

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