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March 9, 2004

SLACCing Off

The Internet is really good at keeping the past from fading out of our collective memories. For example, I was doing an innocent web search, when I came upon this: The SLACC website. Oh goodie.

SLACC was a student organization started by Rafi, Mark and myself for the Coop students working at Corel back in the summer of 1999. As an organization, we didn't really do anything, but we did have a crappy website.

One day, probably during one of their binges, Mark and Chris decided that the co-ops needed an internal website. Nobody was really too sure what it was to be used for, but it seemed like a neat idea at the time. After putting in a request with HR and Legal, everybody went happily back to school.

I was the "webmaster" for the internal website, but it appears that after I left Corel, someone posted a modified version on Fortunecity, where it was promptly forgotten. Archeologists of the future may one day dig up this site, examine it closely, then hopefully bury it back in the ground.

07:15 | Nerd

Comments

Oh tech bubble, how I miss you: "In the summer of 1999, Corel hired a record number of co-ops, interns and summer students from various universities and colleges."

I still have your foam Corel Linux penguin.

Posted by: ryan at March 9, 2004 7:38 AM

I still have that "Congratulations on helping get Corel Ventura out the door!" certificate they gave everyone. That was a LONG time ago. 1A?

Posted by: Margaret at March 9, 2004 6:21 PM

But do you guys still have that bright white Corel Ventura sweater??? Oh baby, I do!

Posted by: mark at March 10, 2004 5:09 AM

I don't even have a foam Corel Linux penguin and I worked on the Corel Linux team!

Posted by: Brian at March 10, 2004 6:36 AM

Hey Mark, did you ever find out who took your Voltron head?

Posted by: Chris at March 10, 2004 6:43 AM

I was going to bring that up, but the memories are just too painful.

On a completely unrelated note, I think I have recovered 100% from the ulcers that I am sure developed during that term due to what some might call "massive-Coke-intake."

Posted by: mark at March 10, 2004 8:34 AM

But, where would Corel Gallery be today without your sacrifice?

Posted by: Brian at March 10, 2004 10:12 AM

Perhaps on a shelf in a store instead of the Corel graveyard...

Posted by: mark at March 10, 2004 5:26 PM

Wow, look at all the fellow ex-Corel co-ops who have left comments. I wonder who else from Corel is reading this blog... Mikey C?

Posted by: Chris at March 10, 2004 7:20 PM

ahh... how I miss those card-playing lunch hours... the games of Doom... the lazy days of yore...

Posted by: Margaret at March 13, 2004 2:16 PM

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