The video is excellent. I am going to view it several times. The resolution looks good too. In the beginning around the third dark round artifact, was it a button? Maybe for unusual objects a title card would be helpful? This is a rare gift to see your artifacts, thank you very much Sir.
I am so excited to see someone show some constructive interest in what we need to do here. Public Aceess! Public Access! Now there's the meat in any real historically significant site. Regrettably, underwater archaeological sites provide very limited public access. ML provides none!
In the mid 1980's, I envisioned, along with many great "outliers" of those days past, an Internet portal capable of searching distant college databases, using DOS machine language, and providing public "internet" web connections to, not just the government and prestigious educational institutions, but to every home as a general "public access". I know, it's dang hard to grasp how we could live, research, and write about any subject matter without google, digital archives, and forums. I admit freely, as I am sure all the elder members will agree, it was hard; looking backward into the distant past from my present station, I now understand the truth contained in the old story my Daddy would tell us about being required to walk five miles, barefooted, with worn and tattered coats, to elementary school, in the snow, up hill, both ways, in the dark wee morning hours, in Florida! Its true. You can't just make this stuff up!
In truth, without my southern flare of humor the SJAEI's call BS, it was simply what it was. What it was, was the best of times. We were buoyed by wonderful and great expectations regarding future prospects of computer power. Never forget, we, my generation, invented the internet! I will stand and say out loud, "well done"! I am that young man you saw in those videos. I watch them. He has not changed. I have. It is true. Now, I say, as said in the Asoaken Farewell Movie, "We are all surrounded by a way of life that will one day be lost. It is remembered by those tangible things we leave behind!"
And, this brings me back to NHL Maple Leaf. It is no accident that the audiovisual material posted on this CWT forum exists. It is no accident, after twenty years of being dark, that CWT forum was chosen as the test portal to public access.
12th Missouri Yankee, you give me constructive input and I'll produce the changes, and repost the newer, more productive, more searchable visuals, using only hundreds of images first. Then, maybe, someone else may find something of interest to input. Believe me, if you think it's hard to write history, consider how hard SJAEI's members have previously worked to make history. You have heard me voice my opinion that the main benefit Maple Leaf offers us, is a site that can excite students of all ages about studying their past by using the disciplines of their present!
(If this work I wish to do, on behalf of Maple Leaf, threatens anyone's badges, threads, or credits, please know this is not my intent. I'll take no credits, no rewards, no honnor. We can together increase ML's national popularity and its world wide public awareness.)
Kindest and Most Personal Regards,
kvholland, CWT, Private
Keith