Once upon a time, I used to work in a company called Times Internet Limited. For the uninitiated, TIL runs the content part of the business for Bennett Coleman & Co Limited, which runs websites like Indiatimes, Timesofindia.com, economictimes.com and so on.

During my time there I had started a couple of things like the blogging service o3, RSS feeds and run some other nicknacks. The reason for this post? Well, I happened to stumble on one of the pages I used to maintain there -- on RSS services available on the website, which is hosted here: http://info.indiatimes.com/rss/ .

The page has largely remained the same, including design and content since 2005, when it was launched, until sometime this year (post February 2008) when the considerably expanded Terms of Use and other legalese were added to it. This may have something to do with the incident, where TIL wound up blocking all crawlers and it is likely that they wanted to add the clauses to cite violations. I have to clarify, though, that there is no foolproof way to determine the dates involved in the changes.

But, this post is really not about practices in the internet industry in India, I have ranted enough and more about in previous posts. This is more about some of your more, let us say, 'interesting' parts of online history staying there forever.

And if you though that page was bad, you should check this out: http://careers.indiatimes.com/ . I really do have a bit of trouble explaining the copy on those pages. There are things you do and then there things you do!