Doesn't time fly! Around the end of August 1994 Lief Bluck and I put together a web site for our department. That may not sound very interesting, but let's put things in perspective.
Our University didn't have a web site - not many universities did. The Department of Physics & Astronomy here at Uvic had one - that was it. There were, I believe only 6 economics groups in the world that had a website when we got in on the act. The best known one was that run by Hal Varian - then at the University of Michigan - and now Chief Economist at Google.
Our site was a modest affair. Here's the kicker - we had to show people how to use it, and persuade them that this WWW thing may be around for a while!
Recently, Lief discovered a hard copy of this old memo. that he circulated to members of our department a few weeks after we got things going:
Ah - such innocence!
Our only regret - we never kept a copy of that original site!
I can say as a current university of Michigan student that I don't think anyone has updated our website In a big way since Varian left for warmer pastures.
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