tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post5119522648722933615..comments2024-03-28T03:39:00.025-07:00Comments on WILD ABOUT HARRY: Houdini's early days onlineJohn Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-31859900703453113572019-03-16T09:22:10.273-07:002019-03-16T09:22:10.273-07:00Just checked the microserve archive above and it s...Just checked the microserve archive above and it seems they archived the entire site and many links. It was a huge site even way back then. They archived a lot of it. AMAZING! The internet copyrights for these pages goes back to 1993!<br />http://web.archive.org/web/19971210072154/http://www.microserve.net/~magicusa/houdini.htmlDorothy Dietrich Dick Brookzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15685358647433922445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-35591987039169507232019-03-15T07:03:28.480-07:002019-03-15T07:03:28.480-07:0022 years seems to be the oldest, possibly the firs...22 years seems to be the oldest, possibly the first!<br /><br />The Houdini Museum, Scranton PA<br />The Only Building in the World Dedicated to Houdini!<br />Dorothy Dietrich Dick Brookzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15685358647433922445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-53571487012272914302019-03-11T09:41:45.561-07:002019-03-11T09:41:45.561-07:00I've reworked the post to correct and include ...I've reworked the post to correct and include George Ford's Houdiniana.John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-10495774166627976682019-03-11T09:34:58.898-07:002019-03-11T09:34:58.898-07:00Indeed, I think you may have been the first!Indeed, I think you may have been the first!John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-8402924013701678562019-03-11T09:33:50.181-07:002019-03-11T09:33:50.181-07:00Thanks gingertimelady. Fun to look back on these. ...Thanks gingertimelady. Fun to look back on these. So it was Houdini Tribute that got you into Houdini? That is great. We all have our origin stories. For so many it was the Tony Curtis movie on TV or the Scholastic biography in school. But for you a website! The new generation. :)John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-20810004332720372652019-03-10T13:06:23.362-07:002019-03-10T13:06:23.362-07:00(In case it's not clear, the contest was via H...(In case it's not clear, the contest was via Houdini Tribute.com).<br /><br />Thanks for posting this, John. Thank heavens for the Wayback Machine, to remind us of how simple (yet cluttered) those old sites were, and how the resourcefulness of just a few folks made these sites possible. People complain about Wikipedia, but it's so easy, compared with the assortment of resources available gingertimeladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10639685707649104207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-88172257078390577702019-03-10T12:58:33.876-07:002019-03-10T12:58:33.876-07:00I remember all of these sites, but I used to haunt...I remember all of these sites, but I used to haunt Houdini Tribute all the time. This is the website that got me into Houdini in the first place, after finding some super dodgy and inaccurate sites first, which I had only gone looking at because of a rather cheesy "New Outer Limits" episode (talked about on this blog already) which had sparked my 13 year-old brain's curiosity. I gingertimeladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10639685707649104207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-38023513170299559932019-03-09T14:20:12.125-08:002019-03-09T14:20:12.125-08:00The change to the current site archived at
http:/...The change to the current site archived at<br /><br />http://web.archive.org/web/20000302110155/http://houdini.org/<br /><br /> is when our internet company went out of business (microserve.net) and we then paid for our own dedicated server to host houdini.org and several of our other sites such as dellodell.com, joanbrandon.com, dorothydietrich.com, dickbrookz.com, etc.<br /><br />Dick Brookz<brHoudini Museumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04310452776858134825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-75501936899931700452019-03-09T13:43:12.499-08:002019-03-09T13:43:12.499-08:00We believe our Houdini Museum houdini.org website ...We believe our Houdini Museum houdini.org website was one of the first if not the first Houdini site online. Even before WayBackMachine went online. <br />Here is a link to the earliest recorded pages we could find though the site had already up for quite a while. <br />http://web.archive.org/web/19971210072154/http://www.microserve.net/~magicusa/houdini.html<br />As you see this is a page Houdini Museumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04310452776858134825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-68134079855032557322019-03-09T10:03:09.226-08:002019-03-09T10:03:09.226-08:00Also remember doing a lot of searches related to D...Also remember doing a lot of searches related to David Copperfield, particularly after seeing his Broadway show and TV appearances in the late 90s. It was still early internet days but this also led to a deeper interest not only in how his illusions might have been done, but Houdini's.Tom and Johanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01133250855806942658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-61353970820236003432019-03-09T09:51:21.605-08:002019-03-09T09:51:21.605-08:00Beyond the above sites, I looked a lot at Houdini....Beyond the above sites, I looked a lot at Houdini.org and the old Houdini Historical Center Outagamie Museum site. I seem to recall the Mystifier newsletter going briefly to an exclusively online format there, but I'm not sure if this recollection is accurate. I picked up a lot about collecting Houdiniana just from reading Mario Carrandi's catalogs (and occasionally chatting with him at Tom and Johanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01133250855806942658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-70301923362203973992019-03-09T05:42:07.926-08:002019-03-09T05:42:07.926-08:00Not long after I discovered Ford's Houdiniana,...Not long after I discovered Ford's Houdiniana, I discovered John's blog: the early days of WAH. I thought "Wow! This guy has a better Houdini website site. I'll stay here.!" <br /><br />By then Ford was slowing down or had completely stopped updating that website. What I remember best about that site was the photo of HH in the coffin at his funeral.<br /><br />Leo Heviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990057178465581105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-63864533405220436932019-03-08T22:39:54.511-08:002019-03-08T22:39:54.511-08:00Ohhhh, yes. I have it wrong above. Houdiniana.com ...Ohhhh, yes. I have it wrong above. Houdiniana.com was George Ford's website. It's offline, but can be view via the Wayback Machine website.John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-62709211563561538762019-03-08T19:01:52.126-08:002019-03-08T19:01:52.126-08:00I remember the Houdiniana website around 2001. The...I remember the Houdiniana website around 2001. The first one about HH that I discovered. Was it produced by the Cannon Escape people?Leo Heviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990057178465581105noreply@blogger.com