Old Whims

Hurrah! As of February 2013, this collection of archival links has been copied to the RUWhim website. See the new Whim archive page. There are more links on my “Searching the lost archives of Whim” page to find the first 17 years of Whim.

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Inspired by a student’s request in January 2010, this is a missing-links page for early years of Radford University’s Whim Internet Magazine. The list and images are mostly from archive.org’s copy of a now-defunct index at the magazine’s old address, kept from 2001 to 2005.

Season 17 – Spring 2005 Andrew Lent, Executive Director designed by Jenny Conner	Season 16 – Fall 2004 Andrew Lent, Executive Director designed by John Cordiano
Season 15 – Spring 2004 John Cordiano, Executive Director designed by John Cordiano	Season 14 – Fall 2003 John Cordiano, Executive Director designed by John Cordiano
Season 13 – Spring 2003 Rachel Pastirik, Executive Director designed by Rachel Pastirik	Season 12 – Fall 2002 Rachel (Thomason) Pastirik, Executive Director designed by Rachel (Thomason) Pastirik
Season 11 – Spring 2002 Rachel Thomason, Executive Director designed by Rachel Thomason	Season 10 – Fall 2001 Rachel Thomason, Executive Director designed by Rachel Thomason
Season 09 – Spring 2001 Rachel Thomason, Executive Director designed by Rachel Thomason	Season 08 – Fall 2000 Rachel Thomason, Executive Director designed by Rachel Thomason
Season 07 – Spring 2000 Brian Korte, Executive Director designed by Rachel Thomason assisted by Jeff Pollard	Season 06 – Fall 1999 Brian Korte, Executive Director designed by Michael Sos
Season 05 – Spring 1999 “Woody” Brian Korte, Executive Director designed by Michael Sos	Season 04 – Fall 1998 “Grape Jelly” Brian Korte, Executive Director designed by Michael Sos
Season 03 – Spring 1998 “Getting Medieval” Greg Norman, Executive Director designed by Greg Norman and Brian Korte	Season 02 – Fall 1997 “FrontPage Hell” Greg Norman, Editor-in-Chief designed by Microsoft Frontpage
Season 01 – Spring 1997 “Jukebox Retro” Greg Norman, Editor-in-Chief designed by Michael Sos

Note to former Whim staff members and other archive-searchers: If Radford’s own servers no longer have a copy of a page, you may be able to find it at archive.org with some sleuthing. At various times, Radford’s Web server has been addressable as “www.cs.runet.edu” or “www.runet.edu” or “www.radford.edu” — and for some reason archive.org copies of the pages for a given date may show up at one version of the address, but not others. For example, compare the lists of captured pages at these addresses:

• http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.runet.edu/~archive
• http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.runet.edu/~archive
• http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.radford.edu/~archive

The first two include the same final page from 2005, but in other years the page was captured on different dates using different addresses. Since this page is static list, there shouldn’t be much difference between versions, but — moral of the story — if you are searching for story pages, try variations on RU server addresses before giving up.

Original archive editor’s note: “Archived articles and graphics may not coordinate with the original designs and layouts.”

(Side note… or “sighed” note: For six years the intro paragraph of the archive page misspelled the word “separate,” saying archived pages would appear in a “seperate browser window.” Please abandon that tradition! While editing this page in July 2010, I was relieved to see that I’d spelled it correctly the first time, but mistakes do happen to even the best editors.)