I just found out that “spin”, the site I used to run for physics students at HUJI has an entry on bugmenot.com.
I guess that means I’m famous :).
Seriously - spin is a site that I hacked up using static html while I was doing my Physics degree. Those were hectic times for me, HUJI has a very demanding Physics program and finding time to wash dishes in between schoolwork was hard, let alone creating and maintaining a website.
I never really had time to give spin the love it deserved, and it’s contents languished for several years as no-one took the reigns and updated it, so with a heavy heart I took it offline recently.
What’s amazing to me is the community that sprang up around such a crappy site - just a bunch of static pages with links to scanned course notes and a rickety copy of phpbb.
I guess it stems both from the fact that spin filled a very real need in bringing social contact and community to physics students. and also, maybe in some strange way, the simplicity and rickety-ness was appealing?
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