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Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainer

Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you. The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/thomasvendetta http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...

scarmig 14y ago
You forgot a DOCTYPE.
- thomasvendetta 14y ago
  Obviously I live on the wild side.
cglace 14y ago
Your animated gifs are awesome.
arscan 14y ago
Agreed. Back in '96 I was a teenager who spent all his free time running a modest gaming fan website [1]. I dropped it when I went to college a year later, but its nice to know all that hard work will forever be memorialized within the wayback machine. It helps me remember why I became a software engineer in the first place. Thanks for that. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/19970414022225/http://www.scorched.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19970414022225/http://www.scorche...
- hayksaakian 14y ago
  > Best viewed in 800x600 resolution. that's great ;-)
  - catshirt 14y ago
    i remember questioning whether it was ok to drop 8x6 support. the golden days.
    - arscan 14y ago
      Oh, this was back when we were tired of supporting 640x480, hence the message of "best viewed on 800x600" :)
      - deleted 14y ago
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    - yuhong 14y ago
      Personally, my favorite is how NT4 and 2000 Terminal Servers were limited to 8-bit color depth (without Citrix, of course).
- citricsquid 14y ago
  Do you still own that domain? It's fantastic.
  - arscan 14y ago
    Thanks! Sadly, I brought on a volunteer who bought the domain in his name. Not a very smart idea in retrospect... but I was young, and not many people understood the value of a good domain name back in 1996 ;-) We were up to 20k daily uniques when I quit (not bad for 1997). I wrote the forum & related software myself in perl, which was an amazing learning experience.
ollysb 14y ago
Clicked on Today's comics and felt very nostalgic when I saw this http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://expage.com/cgibin/freepage.cgi/?cm=y&cp=y&mc=00ff00&bg=colors%2F%233036f8&pn=thomasvendetta&tc=00ffff&gr=sports/socer.gif&li=checked/02cyan.gif&so=caribn2 http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://expage.com/cgibin/free...
DanBC 14y ago
> The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me That's exactly the kind of website they should be preserving! The future people will be glad that we kept some ephemera around. And I love that website - just so blue; and comic sans not used ironically; and animated gifs; and the guestbook.
agscala 14y ago
I find it hilarious that you animated the B flipping between italics and normal
catshirt 14y ago
when i was a kid using my parents AOL connection Homestead was blocked by the default AOL parental controls. so i installed a keylogger so i could sneak onto my dad's screen name and make websites when he went to work. in retrospect i probably could have just asked him to unblock homestead so i can make websites. i realize this is only tangentially related, but your page compelled me to share. :)
- thomasvendetta 14y ago
  Ahhh! Homestead. Thank you for reminding me. I need to check there for archives, too!

scarmig 14y ago

You forgot a DOCTYPE.

thomasvendetta 14y ago
Obviously I live on the wild side.

cglace 14y ago

Your animated gifs are awesome.

arscan 14y ago

Agreed. Back in '96 I was a teenager who spent all his free time running a modest gaming fan website [1]. I dropped it when I went to college a year later, but its nice to know all that hard work will forever be memorialized within the wayback machine. It helps me remember why I became a software engineer in the first place. Thanks for that. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/19970414022225/http://www.scorched.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19970414022225/http://www.scorche...

hayksaakian 14y ago
> Best viewed in 800x600 resolution. that's great ;-)
- catshirt 14y ago
  i remember questioning whether it was ok to drop 8x6 support. the golden days.
  - arscan 14y ago
    Oh, this was back when we were tired of supporting 640x480, hence the message of "best viewed on 800x600" :)
    - deleted 14y ago
      [deleted]
  - yuhong 14y ago
    Personally, my favorite is how NT4 and 2000 Terminal Servers were limited to 8-bit color depth (without Citrix, of course).
citricsquid 14y ago
Do you still own that domain? It's fantastic.
- arscan 14y ago
  Thanks! Sadly, I brought on a volunteer who bought the domain in his name. Not a very smart idea in retrospect... but I was young, and not many people understood the value of a good domain name back in 1996 ;-) We were up to 20k daily uniques when I quit (not bad for 1997). I wrote the forum & related software myself in perl, which was an amazing learning experience.

ollysb 14y ago

Clicked on Today's comics and felt very nostalgic when I saw this http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://expage.com/cgibin/freepage.cgi/?cm=y&cp=y&mc=00ff00&bg=colors%2F%233036f8&pn=thomasvendetta&tc=00ffff&gr=sports/socer.gif&li=checked/02cyan.gif&so=caribn2 http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://expage.com/cgibin/free...

DanBC 14y ago

> The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me That's exactly the kind of website they should be preserving! The future people will be glad that we kept some ephemera around. And I love that website - just so blue; and comic sans not used ironically; and animated gifs; and the guestbook.

agscala 14y ago

I find it hilarious that you animated the B flipping between italics and normal

catshirt 14y ago

when i was a kid using my parents AOL connection Homestead was blocked by the default AOL parental controls. so i installed a keylogger so i could sneak onto my dad's screen name and make websites when he went to work. in retrospect i probably could have just asked him to unblock homestead so i can make websites. i realize this is only tangentially related, but your page compelled me to share. :)

thomasvendetta 14y ago
Ahhh! Homestead. Thank you for reminding me. I need to check there for archives, too!