[Gocamino] Camino Internet Resource History

[Ralph Alcorn]

I didn't have any time to spare this week, so of course did an unplanned
project to see where backpack45.com fell on the timeline of Camino Internet
Resources. It expanded into more than the original project, but was also
more interesting, and I thought I would share it.

I used Whois and the wayback machine to determine when the significant
Camino resources became available, and when/if they became unavailable. My
own Camino research started in 2000 and I found very little available - a
much better situation now.

I put the resources into four categories. Websites with content for
browsing. Websites with actively used forums, email based listservs and
forums, blogs, then put the data in a genealogy database

To summarize: Earliest sources were email based listservs, primarily
GoCamino, but Brazil had the www.caminhodesantiago.com   website up and
running in 1999, and www.mundicamino.com  and www.csj.org.uk  were also
available in 1999. The first interactive forum in English was Spain based
www.caminosantiago.com  in 2001. Both the St. James and Santiagobis Yahoo
Groups were up in 2000. www.backpack45.com  is the earliest USA based
website that is still up and running (since 2003). Camino based blogs that
are more than a walker's journal are still scarce. I just have Rebekahs
Moratinos blog <http://moratinoslife.blogspot.com/>, Johnnie Walkers
blog<http://johnniewalker-santiago.blogspot.com/>,
and Amawalker's blog <http://amawalker.blogspot.com/>.

I put the detailed report into a webpage:
http://www.backpack45.com/camino-web-history.html
-- 
Ralph Alcorn
http://www.backpack45.com/camino2.html