13th Apr 2003
Something Old, Something New
In the mid-80’s, I started using Usenet news. In 1993,
I wrote an idea about Virtual Newsgroups. I just mentioned
this as a comment in my Topics, Categories, Keywords, and Konfusion post. I thought I’d mention it again
in a from-scratch posting, as it shows a little history - I’ve been musing about how to search things for a while :-)
The “Something New” part is: I just implemented a way to
search this site via the use of mod_rewrite, a subdomain, and a short
script. Keywords in the URL are
transformed into a call to the Moveable Type search script.
Example: http://keys.javajoint.com/topic/rss gets transformed into:
http://javajoint.com/mt-bin/mt-search.cgi?search=topic+rss
The benefit is that it becomes easy to bookmark, link to, or type
in a search URL. I will post more details soon. There are
a number of ways it can be applied. It will also fit in
with what I’ve been thinking about ThereThen addresses
