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2002 – 2008 · 8 surviving snapshots

The Lost Years

The domain was registered in 2002 — six years before the first blog post that survived. Everything from this era is gone: no database, no files, no backups. What remains are the photographs the Internet Archive happened to take as it passed by. These are the only surviving pictures of a website that no longer exists anywhere else.

nickmartin.com as captured 2002-03-25 — 2002-03-25Day one: a GoDaddy parking page. The domain exists; the site doesn't yet.

nickmartin.com as captured 2002-08-07 — 2002-08-07The first real site: “Building an Internet Empire” — double thumbs up and a Flash intro.

nickmartin.com as captured 2004-07-07 — 2004-07-07FORE!!! Golf enters the record — a Big Bertha 3-wood at the Copenhagen Indoor Golf Center.

nickmartin.com as captured 2005-10-25 — 2005-10-25The first blog layout. Hand-built pages give way to posts about golf rounds.

nickmartin.com as captured 2006-06-10 — 2006-06-10Smørum golf days — the tournament habit the recovered blog later picks up.

nickmartin.com as captured 2006-07-15 — 2006-07-15LifeStyleNetworker resurfaces — the project behind “i failed once”, three years before that post was written.

nickmartin.com as captured 2006-10-13 — 2006-10-13“Operation Startup” — the first post about building a company.

nickmartin.com as captured 2008-09-28 — 2008-09-28The blog that survived: “Uncle Nick!” and “Dare Nick … I dare you!” — both readable one stratum up.