Christopher Garrish started with a graduate project and kept going: 5,000 images and roughly 250 pages on British Columbia plates, makers, and records. The history of the site includes scanning plates in two halves because the scanner was too short, then squeezing files into a 50-MB web-hosting limit. Infrastructure is part of the archive.
Original plate archive: https://www.bcpl8s.ca/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-bcpl8s-ca-turned-a-1999-graduate-assignment-into-5000-license-plate-images/
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Original plate archive: https://www.bcpl8s.ca/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-bcpl8s-ca-turned-a-1999-graduate-assignment-into-5000-license-plate-images/
#ancientweb #licenseplates #transporthistory #digitalarchives
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Categories: Ancient Web & Internet History [c23]