# Dag, but this is a nice site. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623 "2001-08-16T20:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceGhostofArrakis)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/1 "2001-08-16T20:46:24Z")
> **[HistoryWired: A Few of Our Favorite Things](https://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/history-wired)** > > HistoryWired: A Few of our Favorite Things was an experimental website launched in 2001. Designed to let users explore a sampling of the Museum’s collection, the site featured 450 objects—famous, unusual, and everyday—with interesting stories to... It’s a Smithsonian site that display’s stuff that’s in the Archives, very nice, I think. Found out about it from the “Washington Post”, guess they’ve earned their subscription…\* This Time\* ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/2 "2001-08-17T00:07:14Z")
Very nice indeed! For a historian like myself, that site is kinda like chocolate coated crack! I love it! ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/3 "2001-08-19T09:37:32Z")
Link didn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/4 "2001-08-19T18:30:37Z")
Wonderful site, thanks for the tip. And BTW, that Towely the Towel episode was one of the funniest damn things I ever saw. ---
**Author:** ![urban1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d07c76/32.png) [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/5 "2001-08-19T23:16:10Z")
Great site. Bookmarked. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/6 "2001-08-19T23:45:37Z")
Weeeeee! What a blast! Thanks, SpaceGhostofArrakis. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/7 "2001-08-19T23:53:35Z")
Well, it’s okay, but you have to wonder how much research they actually put into it. With the pencil sketch they have of _Steamboat Willie_ the just repeat the mythology that Disney himself created Mickey Mouse on the train back from New York, completely omitting any mention of Ub Iwerks, who actually did more work on creating the mouse. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dag-but-this-is-a-nice-site/76623/8 "2001-08-20T01:20:38Z")
Thats is a one DAG of a DAG good site!!!