I think it’s safe to say that we all love a bit of web nostalgia. Towards the end of last year the Space Jam website — which hasn’t been updated since 1996 — started doing the rounds on Twitter once again and even more recently so did this website from November 1992, which has been widely reported to be one of the first ever.

Today we’re going to take another trip down memory lane and look back on some more old websites that are still up and running. Prepare to smile, laugh and cringe at was is the ultimate reminder of just how far the web has come.

CNN Year in Review 1996

The web page for CNN’s Year in Review 1996. Anybody below the age of 17 wasn’t even born when this page went live.

Batman The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997

The all Flash website for the Batman Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997. No share via Facebook and Twitter options here, it was all about e-mail and AOL Instant Messenger.

Miss Congeniality

Another all Flash website, this time for the movie ‘Miss Congeniality’. Splash screens, loading screens, pop up windows — this one had it all.

The Million Dollar Homepage

One of the first ideas I can recall that made me think “I wish I’d thought of that”. Alex Tew’s classic ‘The Million Dollar Homepage’ was set up as a way for him to raise money for his University education. 

IFINDIT

 ”The largest super search guide on the net” complete with standard ‘Under Construction’ sign.

Billy Elliot

The official website for the movie ‘Billy Elliot’, features more pop-up windows than the movie does pirouettes.

You’ve Got Mail

The official website for the movie ‘You’ve Got Mail’, which features an optional Flash intro that lasts approximately 15 seconds.

Ingen (Jurassic Park: The Lost World)

Even in 1997 they were creating websites for fictional companies. Check out this one for InGen (International Genetics Technologies) from the movie ‘Jurassic Park: The Lost World’.

Battlefield Earth

The official website for the book ‘Battlefield Earth’ by author L. Ron Hubbard. A combination of Flash and HTML which perhaps bizarrely but also quite conveniently features a Flash intro which can only be viewed once the main site has already loaded.

I am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action

The official website for the book ‘Jackie Chan: My Life in Action’ and your one stop shop for facts about the man himself.

2001: A Space Odyssey

The official website for the movie ’2001: A Space Odyssey’. Unfortunately there was no Typekit back then so Kubrick’s beloved Futura doesn’t feature.

Wild Wild West

The official website for the movie ‘Wild Wild West’. A nightmare to navigate but hey, it was the 90′s I guess.

Internet Explorer is Evil

Internet Explorer is Evil – a site that proves developers’ dislike for IE goes back more than a few years.

Jason Santa Maria

The first website of designer Jason Santa Maria. Like a lot of people Jason started his career using Flash but just four years and two versions of his website later he was picking up a Web Standards Award.

Phil Gyford

The first website of designer/developer Phil Gyford. Designed in 1995, Phil said himself it was originally intended for a 640×480 monitor.

Equipoise Webcraft

Andrew Hedge’s first freelancing site — a design typical of the 90′s but quite surprisingly it features snippets of content still relevant to the web today.

Do you have any old favourites that are still up and running? What sites should be relegated to the history books? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Facebook has scholarships for students to attend the 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, which will be held in the first week of October in Minneapolis.

The Facebook Grace Hopper Scholarships will provide 25 students with an all-expenses paid, six-day trip to the 2013 Grace Hopper Conference. In addition to attending conference mentoring, networking, and career development events, the 25 scholarship winners will meet with Facebook director of engineering Jocelyn Goldfein, see the sights of Minneapolis before the conference, and receive a $200 meal stipend.

The scholarships are open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students who are pursuing a degree program in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical major.

To apply fill out the online application form, attach your résumé and complete a short coding challenge. Applications must be completed by Sunday, June 16, 2013. Award recipients will be notified by June 21.

A Humanities Forum panel discussion recorded at UMBC during the Spring semester was featured on the “Marc Steiner Show” on Tuesday, June 5. The topic was “Race and the Civil Rights Movement in Music and Media,” and the discussion featured Derek Musgrove, assistant professor of history; Michelle Scott, associate professor of history; Marc Steiner, host of the “Marc Steiner Show” and Daphne Harrison, emerita professor in Africana Studies and founder of the Dresher Center for the Humanities. The discussion was moderated by Kimberly Moffitt, assistant professor of American Studies.

The full discussion can be heard here. For more information about the Humanities Forum, visit the Dresher Center’s website; the fall 2013 Humanities Forum schedule will be announced soon.

More than twenty years ago, Tulay Adali stepped onto UMBC’s campus as an assistant professor right after receiving her PhD. Much has changed since then.

Now a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Dr. Adali runs a highly active Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab (MLSP­Lab). Her recent appointment as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer has prompted invitations to speak around the world about her research in the theory and development of algorithms for signal processing. This March, Dr. Adali was awarded the University System of Maryland Regents’ Faculty Award for Scholarship, Research, or Creative Activity.

Her secret to success?

“Planning or thinking about the future is not something I do,” said Dr. Adali in her acceptance speech at the Presidential Faculty and Staff Ceremony where she was honored in March. “I rather make sure I enjoy what I do and have fun along the way.” Her technique seems to be paying off. For proof, just take a look at the recognition received by her research in two distinct areas: the development of powerful data­driven methods, and the analysis and fusion of medical imaging data. In 2008, Dr. Adali was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). In 2009, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) elected her a fellow for her work on the theory and practice of statistical signal processing.

In 2011, a paper by Dr. Adali and colleagues titled “Complex ICA using nonlinear functions” received the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. The work develops a complete framework, allowing for the processing of complex data in a manner similar to the real­valued case, eliminating the need to make many of the simplifying assumptions commonly employed. The results of this NSF­funded study led to the development of a complete data­driven framework that enables joint use of sample dependence and higher­order­statistics.

Dr. Adali’s work in medical image analysis and fusion has also gained notoriety. She has been working on methods for data­driven analysis of medical imaging data, and for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data for understanding brain function. She and her colleagues discovered that fusing more than two modalities increases the sensitivity and specificity of the analyses of fMRI, electroencephalography (EEG) and structural MRI data. In March 2011, an IEEE Spectrum article mentioned her success in obtaining very high classification accuracy in identifying mental disorders in patients. Then in April 2011, in addition to her ongoing projects funded by the NSF, NIH, and the Mind Research Network, she received a grant from Michelin Research to study irregular wear detection in tires, where the new data-driven framework is applied to a completely new problem domain.

These notable research advances made Dr. Adali stand out as a nominee for this year’s Regents’ Faculty Award for Scholarship, Research, or Creative Activity. It is the highest honor given by the Board of Regents to faculty members, given to faculty members who have gone above and beyond the call of duty. This year, Dr. Adali joins only three other USM faculty members who were recognized for their exceptional research contributions. “Dr. Adali has been steadily building her research career and I am not surprised by the award since her research is remarkable,” says Dr. Carter, CSEE Department Chair. “I see her continuing to grow her research in areas of signal processing for medical applications and becoming a key UMBC faculty member