Marconi website frozen in 2001
Have a look - quickly - before someone decides to cull this site or the domain name expires … a Marconi website that gives a history of the company and the man from 1886 to 2000 has become frozen in time … the clock abruptly stopped for this site in 2001…
MarconiCalling demonstrates just how much the world has changed in the last decade. It gives us a glimpse back to what “ambitious” websites were like in the early Noughties. How the world has changed …
The “About this Site” page is worth a visit and in case it disappears - here are a few paragraphs from the page: “Named MarconiCalling, the visual style of the site pays homage to the period of the Italian Futurists and the German Bauhaus, artistic periods of the early 20th century that celebrated science, invention and industrial manufacture. It is also a style that lends itself perfectly to Flash technology used on the internet.
MarconiCalling is designed as a highly interactive site and provides a number of intuitive ways of accessing information. It requires the latest version of the Flash plugin.
The Home Page provides a number of entry points…
Visiting MarconiCalling will require considerable time - even a quick visit could take 30 minutes. If you are not paying for the connection time please get consent from the person who is.
For visitors without Flash capability there is an HTML version which does not have the Exhibits 1.2 & 3.
You can click this flash detector and download the software from here.” Now, wasn’t that fun …
Marconi plc: The Torch is Passed page makes grim reading. It says: Information concerning Marconi plc on this site was correct as of mid-2001. “Today, the company that bears his name is at the forefront of the next generation of communications, developing technology that enables the world to communicate more information, faster.”
The archive on the Search page is worth dipping into too - it tells of a bygone era of wire messages between Royal households and yachts in 1898, Isle of Wight tests to Lizard, BBC begins wireless transmissions, plus photographs, sound clips, film clips, newspaper archives … its a treasure trove for historians. Navigation is a bit odd - but this is a history piece in its own right.
Will the last person to leave - please NOT switch off this light!
Marconi logo circa 2000
Guglielmo Marconi