{"id":2271,"date":"2020-01-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2023-06-09T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:06:04","slug":"basque-fact-of-the-week-bubers-basque-page-is-25-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2020\/01\/05\/basque-fact-of-the-week-bubers-basque-page-is-25-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque Fact of the Week: Buber&#8217;s Basque Page is 25 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Buber&#8217;s Basque Page is 25 years old! I first started working on what would become this site back in the fall of 1994. I had just started graduate school in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.washington.edu\">Physics Department<\/a> at the University of Washington. I was very lucky to have a fellowship that freed me from teaching duties, so I used some of that extra time to learn <a href=\"https:\/\/html.spec.whatwg.org\/multipage\/\">HTML<\/a>. That effort blossomed and flourished, becoming the site you see today. When I started, there was next-to-nothing in English about Basques on the internet and Buber&#8217;s Basque Page tried to fill that void, at least a little. Fortunately, the landscape is much richer today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"743\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/buber-history-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/buber-history-01.png 743w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/buber-history-01-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The first bits of content were taken from notes I had from my time living in Donostia. I had tried to learn Euskara, spending a semester in intensive Basque language courses at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehu.eus\">University of the Basque Country<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/usac.edu\">University Studies Abroad Consortium<\/a>, but it was always easier to speak Spanish (even with my crappy Spanish) and hang out with Americans and speak English. I did learn some, but not nearly as much as I wish I had. But, I took lots of notes and some of that became some of the first content on this site, such as this <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Euskara\/hitz.php\">word list<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Euskara\/index.php\">declension and conjugation tables<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another critically important resource was the <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/bit.listserv.basque-l\">Basque-L<\/a> mailing list. A collection of Basques scattered from all over the world, the discussion was usually pretty deep and pretty intense. But, there was a gold mine of information and, always with permission, I used some of that to build the early Buber&#8217;s Basque Page. For example, Maria Santisteban put together some <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Euskara\/lesson.1.php\">Basque language lessons<\/a> that I hosted on the site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As the site continued to grow, some parts became particularly popular and important. Probably the most popular was Xabier Ormaetxea&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Surname\/surlist.php\">Surname Research<\/a>. People could send in questions about their Basque surnames and Xabier would look them up in the various references he had. Others would then post comments on each entry. Unfortunately, I had to disable the comments as it was an easy way for hackers to get into the site. Eventually, Xabier became busy with other efforts and, for a while, Susan Ybarra took over. But, with the advent of other genealogical sites, particularly the group <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/basque-genealogy\">basque-genealogy<\/a>, where people can post queries about their names.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other popular items include <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Food\/charley.php\">Charles Shaffer&#8217;s list of Basque Restaurants<\/a>, at the time one of the first comprehensive lists of Basque restaurants; <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Folklore\/EHL\/\">chris&#8217;s translations of stories from Euskal Herriko Leiendak<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?page_id=1385\">interviews<\/a> with people from the Basque world; the <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Features\/GuestColumns\/\">Guest Columns<\/a>, particularly from the prolific David Cox; and <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/index.php\/nggallery\/people\/tattoos?page_id=25\">the photo album of Basque tattoos<\/a>. One part I&#8217;m very proud of is hosting an archive of the linguist <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Euskara\/Larry\/WebSite\/\">Larry Trask&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One thing I quickly learned in building this site is that everything about the Basque Country is political. Anything you say about the Basques becomes a political football. Just saying that Nafarroa is part of the historical Basque Country brought out a lot of critiques, and I was just quoting a standard encyclopedia. The most controversy I ever encountered, however, was when <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Notes\/rebuttal.php\">the Spanish newspaper ABC tried to connect my nascent page to ETA<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The two proudest moments I&#8217;ve had in running this page are when <a href=\"https:\/\/nabasque.eus\">NABO<\/a> recognized me and my site with a plaque of appreciation in 1998 and when I was recognized in 2006 with the <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.interneteuskadi.org\/web\/\">Buber Sariak<\/a>, an award for the best Basque websites, named after this site! That was truly an amazing honor! This site has opened a lot of new doors and opportunities for me and I&#8217;m extremely grateful. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has been a great 25 years. This site, dedicated to the memories of my dad <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=1451\">Pedro Uberuaga Zabala<\/a> and my grandpa Jose Maria Telleria, is a monument to all of the volunteers who have helped me collect, translate, and identify content that forms the heart of this site. But it couldn&#8217;t thrive as it has without the constant support of the readers and visitors. To everyone who has had a hand in helping create this site or has ever visited, <strong>Eskerrik Asko!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buber&#8217;s Basque Page is 25 years old! I first started working on what would become this site back in the fall of 1994. I had just started graduate school in the Physics Department at the University of Washington. 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