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Side note: I always wonder what a site like this - something that may have been carefully hand-crafted/designed in something like MS FrontPage in 1999 - thinks
by erickhill 9y ago
Side note: I always wonder what a site like this - something that may have been carefully hand-crafted/designed in something like MS FrontPage in 1999 - thinks about their sudden traffic spike from HN after years of solitude save for the occasional history buff or research student.
Fascinating story.
- atestu 9y agoYou're assuming they actually look at their traffic stats after all this time!
- r-s 9y agoHonestly, this site is nicer to use then many I use on a daily basis.
- blhack 9y agoYou mean it doesn't try to redirect you to a crippled mobile version of itself? Or hijack your scrolling?
- 52-6F-62 9y agoIf you head to the home page there's a tiny link right near the bottom linking to an article about the webmaster. It appears he was a career police officer in the region who retired just shy of ten years ago! And the site was indeed begun in 1999. I also certainly created stuff that looked like this in 1999. Those buttons on the home page would have made me proud of myself. http://www.niagarafrontier.com/netdetective.jpg http://www.niagarafrontier.com/netdetective.jpg
- ambrosite 9y agoI find the home page of this site very nostalgic. I love stumbling across these old sites that look the way the entire web looked back in the nineties. Hell, there's even a marquee made with the 'marquee' tag!
- megy 9y agoUnless it goes down, and even then they may never know. A lot of people don't get hourly updates on their traffic, or even ever check their logs, or know they have logs.
- olalonde 9y ago<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"> What I'm wondering is if the webmaster is paying 100$/month for a dedicated server he got some 15 years ago. A lookup on the IP shows it is hosted at http://www.inmotionhosting.com/ http://www.inmotionhosting.com/.