Web Frost

The old WebFrost site sat for decades it seemed collecting dust and otherwise just sitting there doing nothing for everyone to see. It was a scratchpad in essence for various programming attempts and in fact had some Google Adsense code at the top.

The old index page can be found here.  As you can see there were a bunch of links at the top pointing around in circles mostly but mostly pointing to nothing in particular. Here goes:

Greg Bear Bookstore

This is a list of ten of Greg Bear’s best-selling books at the time, all of which point to Amazon as affiliate links. It was an early attempt / test at using Amazon’s affiliate system. I think if I added it up I generated 10,000 click and 2 sales of Greg Bear’s books over the years . 

Mystery Bookstore

This section was hot for a while – again it was an early test of basic internet programming and using Amazon’s web services and affiliate system. Almost all of the scripts were just barely adapted from Amazon’s own examples. The list of mystery authors was actually lifted from someone else’s web site who was doing practically the same thing. 

MapPoint Topics

This links to a list of other miscelaneous links – see what I mean about pointing in circles to nothing?!  However it looks like there may have been an attempt at Amazon web service programming again.