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[Shoe1]

Old timers may be familiar with Bryan Gaensler's original manly website.

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~bmg/manly.html

It is most likely the earliest rugby league website, from when the web was new.

In recognition of this feat Bryan was made Australian of the year.

 

[conanu]

I was in yr12 1995 and I remember when they showed us in Computer Science class this new thing called the world wide web and the first thing I did a search on netscape navigator was Manly Sea Eagles and this page came up. I still remember printing off that picture of cliffy and the original club logo. Wow times have changed.

 

[Volley]

'I ran the [Sea Eagles'] web page before they even knew they had a web page.''

Classic Gaensler

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

I was an early member there, met Bryan once nice guy!

If you click on to the " your comments" section you'll see some of my brilliance on show from 20 years ago, lol.

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

Old timers may be familiar with Bryan Gaensler's original manly website.

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~bmg/manly.html

It is most likely the earliest rugby league website, from when the web was new.

In recognition of this feat Bryan was made Australian of the year.

Absolutely brilliant
this must be preserved whatever it takes
thanks

 

[Rusty Cage]

I was an early member there, met Bryan once nice guy!

If you click on to the " your comments" section you'll see some of my brilliance on show from 20 years ago, lol.

@Mark from Moree!!!!

 

[brad]

I was in yr12 1995 and I remember when they showed us in Computer Science class this new thing called the world wide web and the first thing I did a search on netscape navigator was Manly Sea Eagles and this page came up. I still remember printing off that picture of cliffy and the original club logo. Wow times have changed.

1995 i got married and boy didn't that put me in a web.

 

[Chip and Chase]

He's in Toronto now so maybe @globaleagle can send Hat around to interview him

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

@Mark from Moree!!!!

Yep that was me!!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Yep that was me!!

Oh, and still is!

 

[yokahontas]

Yep that was me!!

Lol, I remember Mark from Moree

I remember Bryan's website too, but I do t think I started posting until the One-Eyed Eagle days!

 

[Shoe1]

Is there any one eyed eagle archive out there?

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Lol, I remember Mark from Moree

I remember Bryan's website too, but I do t think I started posting until the One-Eyed Eagle days!

I was very original, moved to Brisbane and became MFB!!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Is there any one eyed eagle archive out there?

Aaron Markie would have it, he now runs NRL Digital ( so the App / Streaming ), has never posted on here.

 

[Pablo]

Blast from the past. I used that website for info back in the day. Don't think i used the forum though.
One eyed eagle was the first Manly forum i was on. I felt like a big shot being a TeamOEE member and posting articles on the site.

 

[Brissie Kid]

Is there any one eyed eagle archive out there?

I can't get the darn thing to properly work, but there is some of the site to see here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050730015109/http://www.oneeyedeagle.com:80/News.asp

Or try your luck from 2001 onwards at: https://web.archive.org/web/20050715000000*/.oneeyedeagle.com

 

[HoldenV8]

I was very original, moved to Brisbane and became MFB!!

You could have moved to Adelaide and become an MFP 😛

For those old enough you might remember Adelaide's ill-fated MFP or Multifunction Polis lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Polis

 

[TokyoEagle]

I was an early member there, met Bryan once nice guy!

If you click on to the " your comments" section you'll see some of my brilliance on show from 20 years ago, lol.

Ever the gentleman that Mark from Moree guy. I wonder where he has got to.

 

[globaleagle]

Comments were so civilised back then.

My how social media has dragged down the species.


This is awesome! I wonder how it would be if @Dan did the same thing??

Here's your chance to have your say on the mighty Sea Eagles. I guess I should have some amazing form for you to fill in, but it is too much effort. So if you've got something to say, e-mail me with your thoughts. I will put comments which I deem worthy of publication on here whenever I have the chance. I reserve the right to edit and censor your thoughts as I see fit. Those who can at least spell will be regarded favourably in this respect...



Great early site though. A bit of history right there!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Comments were so civilised back then.

My how social media has dragged down the species.


This is awesome! I wonder how it would be if @Dan did the same thing??

Here's your chance to have your say on the mighty Sea Eagles. I guess I should have some amazing form for you to fill in, but it is too much effort. So if you've got something to say, e-mail me with your thoughts. I will put comments which I deem worthy of publication on here whenever I have the chance. I reserve the right to edit and censor your thoughts as I see fit. Those who can at least spell will be regarded favourably in this respect...



Great early site though. A bit of history right there!

You also have to remember back then not everyone had the internet, and certainly not at home.

As a travel agent we were very early adopters of this new fangled technology, connecting to the net ( via dial up modem) in the very early 90's.

To give you youngins an idea of how it was back then , downloading a massive 2mb file would take maybe 2-3 hours.

I remember downloading a 5mb file from my accountant ( end of year figures that needed to be copied back on my first ever PC, a massive 10mb hard drive and cost $6000 in 1989 dollars, probably $30k today), and going in on a Sunday to do it as there was less traffic, I started at 7am, and eventually got it all through ( after two dropouts because the file was so large) about 3.30pm.

I found Bryan Gaenslers webpage the first year it was in operation ( and I forget exactly but think it was 1995).

They didn't do " post counts" back then, but I know I had over 10,000 on OEE, and another 15,000 on MWSE, so I'm guessing by the time I get to 20k on here I'll be approaching 50,000 comments overall, wow, how much wasted time is that!