Think Back... Wayback. (wake up Maggie)

[misterx]

theredhead1 made a comment in my last post that reminded me of the Wayback Machine. I looked up misterx.com, and sure enough, there it was.

What was interesting was that it also archived a link to the "no-name discussion board" that I used to admin. I worked for a while for a small ISP called NetAccess, and in a glorious move to uphold free speech, they deleted all the discussion boards from their servers when they found out customers used them to complain about their crappy connections. I took it upon myself to rescue one and hide it, and kept it going for about three years. I eventually shut it down due to excessive stress in my meatspace life, handing the torch to one Peter Martin. He kept it going in other forms, on a Spinnaker-based BBS/Webserver package. More on that in a minute. It's a pity the Wayback didn't archive the content of the threads, because I'm curious to know the "Top 10 Reasons Email Is Like A Penis... - Melanie" .

http://web.archive.org/web/20001217005300/vhost1.zfx.com/comm/noname/

Looking further, I noticed the wayback machine says it archived 2 pages on each date. Curious which two, I clicked some links... turns out it archvied the "start new thread" page. So then I remembered, I didn't exactly just blow it all away. It might still be there. Sure enough:
http://vhost1.zfx.com/comm/noname/start.html
it's still there and it works. Sort of. It will still create a file with your post in it, but it doesn't update the messages index anymore. It also seems people are sometimes finding the posts and responding to them, even after the board closed. Create a message, then start rolling back the message filenames (which are just numbered html files).

Here's another interesting thing. I found the last message index before I shut it down, messages intact. It has the threads from 9/11/01. http://vhost1.zfx.com/comm/noname/index2.html

Finally, it looks like Peter may be thinking about resurrecting the old haunt. I saw a post on ABOL.com as follows:

Posted by: Admin on Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 01:58 AM
In case any of you remember this and are interested, the infamous No-Name Discussion Board, around in various incarnations since the inception of Internet access in southwestern Virginia, is now back at noname.abol.com.

http://noname.abol.com/index.pl (watch out for the geckos)

That is all, and probably way too much at that.

Comments

[theredhead.livejournal.com]

It has some of my old dog site on it - I miss my wuppers...

http://web.archive.org/web/20011031122636/www.redstonegroup.org/GSD/

It wasn't to bad as hobby websites go

-the redhead-

[misterx.livejournal.com]

That font has been with you a long time, eh? :)

It has my old error messages page too:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010604144447/misterx.com/gallery/index.shtml

[lilith17.livejournal.com]

Peter's still doing this? I haven't heard anything about him in so long.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine who else would resurect the no name board. Jason wouldn't give a crap... nothing bad about Jason, just that he never used it. I don't know who else would have admin privs at abol. I guess it could be someone else, but Peter seems most likely. For what it's worth, Peter made a bunch of posts in the new noname, trying to jump-start it.