Help me find this website, if it still exists.

March 2, 2007 4:29 PM

Help me find this website, if it still exists. A few years ago I ran acroos s beautiful site that had either a week by week or month by month imagery of a fetus in utero, and described what was going on as it grew. The imagery took up the whole page and was black and white. It was really breathtaking.
posted by Chuck Cheeze to home & garden (9 comments total)

More info: It wasn't like a babycenter or babyfilter community site, this was someone's site to document this stuff as it was happening for his family, I think...but it wasn't his photography (obviously).
posted by Chuck Cheeze at 4:31 PM on March 2, 2007

Visual Embryo? (Click on embryo stages on the spiraly thing to get to pictures.)
posted by Addlepated at 4:47 PM on March 2, 2007

I had it bookmarked for years, and then it disappeared. It was called The First Nine Months and it was a father's present to his wife, all done in flash, very innovative at the time (1999, 2000). I think it started off with its own url and then was hosted at www.parentsplace.com/first9months/main.html for a while, but now that redirects to ivillage, and they don't seem to host it anymore. Maybe one of the archive.org links will work.
posted by iconomy at 4:52 PM on March 2, 2007

Either of these?
(I doubt it, but thought it might be worth asking)
posted by Dub at 4:52 PM on March 2, 2007

You know, I don't think Visual Embryo is the right site. I remember the one you're talking about, but I don't have the bookmark anymore.

(On preview, what iconomy said.)
posted by Addlepated at 4:53 PM on March 2, 2007

See halfway down the Google page, the url to first9months.com, described as a multimedia journey? That's the original url but it's been blocked on archive org, unfortunately.
posted by iconomy at 5:00 PM on March 2, 2007

I'm not quite sure of the provenance of the site, but this looks like it.
posted by staggernation at 9:34 PM on March 2, 2007

Staggernation - I'm sure that's the site that Chuck Cheeze was looking for. I remember that theme music clearly.
posted by Addlepated at 11:37 PM on March 2, 2007

Ahhh thats it staggernation. Thanks! Isn't it neat?
posted by Chuck Cheeze at 5:46 PM on March 3, 2007