The Galapagos Times
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The Galapagos Times
an email newsletter
SPU-Darwin, LEGO A/S, Planet Earth
Dateline Thursday, May 14, 1998
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Header for issue 26 | |
| Editor | Laura Kusumoto |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Format | |
| First issue | August 20, 1997 |
| Final issue Number | May 14, 1998 26 |
| Company | SPU-Darwin |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | English |
| Website | spu-darwin |
The Galapagos Times is an email newsletter that was distributed to employees of SPU-Darwin. Twenty-six issues published between August 1997 and May 1998. It was edited and published by Laura Kusumoto, the Director of Operations at SPU-Darwin.
History
The first issue of The Galapagos Times was published on 20 August 1997.[1]
After the 3 March issue, the newsletter went on hiatus for two months due to budget planning, which took up all computers in the office for several weeks until an accountant was hired,[2] and editor Kusumoto going on holiday.[3] Publication resumed in May, though only two more issues are known to exist.
The newsletter is named after the Galápagos Islands, which Charles Darwin visited in 1835 during his five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle; his studies of the archipelago's endemic species helped inspire his theory of evolution by natural selection. Galapagos here was meant to refer to the "virtual space" being explored by SPU-Darwin's work, with the goal being the "evolution" of LEGO products from physical to digital.[4] The office space that SPU-Darwin operated out of was internally referred to as the HMS Beagle.[5][6]
Issues
The table below lists and describes all known issues of The Galapagos Times, based on the issues listed in Julian Gómez's archive on spu-darwin.org.[4] The issue references has been simplified to "number"; the original issues are labelled with a volume (which is the same for all issues) and a "Ren" (eg. "Vol 1 Ren 5"), apparently short for "Rendering".
| No. | Date | Details |
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| 1 | 19 August 1997 | Introducing the newsletter, focusing on infrastructure, new mailing addresses, new calendar software |
| 2 | 27 August 1997 | Introducing the Fast-Fill project, awards for "LEGO Underwater Base" and Build a Duck, migrating offices for Darwin and lego.com web team, Darwin 6 Seminar |
| 3 | 3 September 1997 | |
| 4 | 10 September 1997 | |
| 5 | 17 September 1997 | |
| 6 | 24 September 1997 | |
| 7 | 1 October 1997 | |
| 8 | 8 October 1997 | |
| 9 | 15 October 1997 | |
| 10 | 22 October 1997 | |
| 11 | 29 October 1997 | |
| 12 | 5 November 1997 | |
| 13 | 12 November 1997 | |
| 14 | 17 November 1997 | |
| 15 | 3 December 1997 | |
| 16 | 12 December 1997 | |
| 17 | 17 December 1997 | |
| 18 | 9 January 1998 | |
| 19 | 15 January 1998 | |
| 20 | 22 January 1998 | |
| 21 | 3 February 1998 | |
| 22 | 14 February 1998 | |
| 23 | 23 February 1998 | |
| 24 | 3 March 1998 | |
| 25 | 6 May 1998 | |
| 26 | 14 May 1998 |
References
- ↑ Kusumoto, Laura, ed. (19 August 1997). The Galapagos Times. Vol. 1.
- ↑ Kusumoto, Laura, ed. (14 May 1998). "Financial health at Darwin". The Galapagos Times. Vol. 1, no. 26.
- ↑ Kusumoto, Laura, ed. (6 May 1998). "The Galapagos Times is back". The Galapagos Times. Vol. 1, no. 25.
- ↑ a b Gómez, Julian (11 June 2008). "The Galapagos Times Archive". SPU-Darwin. Archived from the original on 20 May 2025. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ↑ Kusumoto, Laura, ed. (22 October 1997). "H.M.S. Beagle". The Galapagos Times. Vol. 1, no. 10.
- ↑ Kusumoto, Laura, ed. (15 January 1998). "Ship-shape on the HMS Beagle". The Galapagos Times. Vol. 1, no. 19.
