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Wow, this website in particular was extremely formative for me. I was 10 in '97 and I was so excited about Pathfinder. I remember asking my librarian about it,
by dandelany 10y ago
Wow, this website in particular was extremely formative for me. I was 10 in '97 and I was so excited about Pathfinder. I remember asking my librarian about it, who showed me how to use the library computers to access "the Internet" and look up the images it sent back. I think this was the first time I really appreciated the power of the web, and I've never looked back. Almost got a little emotional seeing this page still plugging along, now that I'm more than a decade into my career as a developer :)
- fogleman 10y agoDitto. I remember looking at Pathfinder images on a computer in the town library in 1997. I was in 10th grade.
- abecedarius 10y agoI worked at JPL at the time, and the mission was a pretty big deal there too. TV trucks in the parking lot for days. A long line outside to get your Hot Wheels toy rover. (I guess that would've gone under the employee merchandise link on this page, which is broken now.)
- dandelany 10y agoThe Hot Wheels collection was one of my prized posessions... I remember I was disappointed by the difference in scales between the rover, lander and capsule, so I built my own lander and capsule for the rover out of cardboard :)
- seansmccullough 10y agoStill available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Wheels-Sojourner-Rover-Action/dp/B000EKED6I https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Wheels-Sojourner-Rover-Action/dp/...