CherryMUG

So CherryMUG has been around since 1995. There is a really great site known as Internet Archive: Wayback Machine, (old people, like me, may remember Mr. Peabody and his Wayback Machine). The Internet Archive: Wayback Machine is this huge archive of web sites. It can be a lot of fun to search through some of your favorite sites.

I wanted to show you what the Apple Computer web site looked like back when CherryMUG started, but not all of the archives are complete. The farthest back I was able to get a complete Apple web page was April, 1997.

Apple Computer in 1997

Check out the “Emate 300.” Those things were ahead of their time.

Apple was very different in 1997. They were going through some very hard times. There was a lot of speculation that they wouldn’t survive. You don’t hear that kind of talk today.

CherryMUG was very different then too. We were going pretty strong at that time. Mac users needed something to rally around. They wanted to know that they weren’t alone in there love of these crazy machines. Now, CherryMUG is struggling. Enthusiasm for the user group certainly isn’t what it used to be. That is why I changed the web site. I’m trying to spark some interest again in the group.

At the moment, membership is free. Maybe, that will change in the future, that all depends on what the group ends up needing. Right now, there is plenty of cash in the CMUG reserves to support this web site and the occasional meeting at the library.

Now we have this great CherryMUG Forum for you to share. Come join the forum. Let’s see what we can do to take CherryMUG into the future.