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This is a site dedicated to examination of that great 20th Century innovation, the RUBBER DINOSAUR. We have photos of relevant specimens from my collections, information on same, some minor essays, and a few pictorial digressions. |
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approx. scale 1:90 |
Carnegie series, scale 1:40 |
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Sheeesh, who wants to bother with this stuff?
I'll just let A Conan Doyle handle that, with this little prefatory item from his 1912 dino-romance The Lost World - If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man Or the man who's half a boy |
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(Online versions seem to delete this ode, but all the dead-tree versions I own have it ..... "And what do you make of that, above us to the right?" Challenger asked. "It is surely a 1958 Pyramid paperback, with a cover painting by Ray Sternbergh," said Summerlee. "That's it," said Lord John. "And the odds are that that's a 1963 edition, at left.")
And I imagine that if A Conan had consulted with his contemporary, Herbert George Wells, he might have found a way to stretch that to include "that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books" (Little Wars, 1913). |
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| Site History |
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Early October 2002
• Site first posted on Tripod .... and submitted to Google and AltaVista Early January 2003 • AltaVista finally notices it .... but Google hasn't found it yet Mid-January 2003 • AllTheWeb has it • and Lycos ... but still no sign of life from Google Late March 2003 • Google finally has all pages well indexed .... • .... as does Lycos .... • .... although AltaVista doesn't seem to have my individual pages as well indexed as the other engines Read the tedious search-engine details April 24, 2003 • Most of the Battat pages are up. • The Carnegie intro page is up but the rest of the Carnegie pages are still under construction. April 30, 2003 • Changes to Battat section .... .... main page now split into four .... added material on scale February 2004 • A long hiatus, now ended, whilst I attended to less-important matters. • Moved site to ProHosting. Tripod is a good reliable host but their banner and popup ads have reached oppressive levels. October 2004 • Added mirror at rubberdinosaurs.1accesshost.com as ProHosting is getting hard to reach via FTP • Added dedication (D'oh! I can't believe I forgot that for so long ...) • Added list of useful references December 2004 • Finally got off my wallet and bought a real domain name and paid for a real host. After studying the market for months, I went with GlobeDomain.com. It's a tiny outfit, two brothers working out of Mysore, India. Their two servers are at ThePlanet in Texas. Service has so far been exemplary and their rates are embarrassingly low. I bought my domain name from them, too. Web e-mail, subdomains, web stats, the works. Finally! • Added some Starlux pages. January 2005 • Deleted ProHosting and 1AccessHost mirrors. Let's see how long it takes Google to realize that they're not there anymore. March 2005 • GlobeDomain.com has sold out to AcuNett. That sort of activity usually portends no good. I predict trouble in the offing. October 2005 • Moved all my sites to Unlimited-Hosting.biz - everything's good so far. July 2006 • Unlimited-Hosting did a major-league crash & burn. The site's now up on a new account at ResellerZoom.com. Everything at Unlimited may be gone - well, so much for those e-mails I hadn't answered yet. 2010 • The big news for 2010 is that I managed to lose the rubberdinosaurs.com domain. Just forgot to renew it. What a dumbnuts. So I bought another domain, rubberdinosaurs.org, and pointed it to my old files. Voila, problem solved. Still pretty embarrassing, though. 2010 - 2024 • Dead. 2024 • Back from the dead. |
