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Restoring a 14-year-old website

67 points by vital101 12y ago

sprremix 12y ago
Cached (Text-only): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.re-cycledair.com/restoring-a-14-year-old-website http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
vital101 12y ago
I apologize friends, I wasn't expecting this much traffic and had just stepped out. Working on getting this back up now. Edit: It's back up. Sorry for the inconvenience!
- zatkin 12y ago
  The blog is working fine, but the restored website isn't returning anything. Or, perhaps, the link to the restored website is broken.
- akurilin 12y ago
  What are you guys running that site on, out of curiosity?
  - vital101 12y ago
    Sorry, my $10 digital ocean vps is kinda struggling. The blog is hosted on WordPress, and being cached via memcache. But GA real time tells me about 300 people are on concurrently which its having trouble handling. I'll be periodically rebooting the box until I can access a computer.
    - atko 12y ago
      300 concurrent connections? Sounds great. I wish my sideproject was hit with that kind of traffic :) I'd love to see what it takes to crash it :p
- Haiperlink 12y ago
  Restoring a 2014 website about restoring a 14-year-old website. :)
- atko 12y ago
  Still down. How many concurrent connections are you getting via HN right now?
antr 12y ago
Those 'Enter' landing pages + left menu frames are classics. Good times
- joshlegs 12y ago
  my proudest achievement was getting 'boxless' frames working that didnt look like shit. all hand-coded
jamese 12y ago
Brings back a lot of memories of old sites worked on in the past... and table layouts abused: http://www.davidearl.ca/portfolio/ http://www.davidearl.ca/portfolio/
rocky1138 12y ago
It's amazing how many of us shared the same experiences around this time. I suspect you are 31, yes? 1999 was my favourite year in high school. My website at the time was the Armadatron, which was all things Armada (Sega Dreamcast). It was very similar in design and content, but based on the Armada universe. Players could read it to find where the best star-bases and planets were in the game, etc. I'm pretty sure the URL was http://online-resource.com/armadatron http://online-resource.com/armadatron, but the Wayback Archive redirects that URL to a parked domain. Is there any way to disable the redirect on Wayback Machine? In a small bit of success at the time, the official Armada devs linked me from their home page :) I used Frontpage Express and notepad and after hosting a different website using my ISP and Xoom, I bought my first domain and real hosting. That's back when you could only get domains from one company and had to pay for two years by cheque. It took forever, but it taught me many important things about running a website. I am a web developer, today. Thanks for the read!
- Spittie 12y ago
  http://web.archive.org/web/20010601000000*/http://online-resource.com/Armadatron http://web.archive.org/web/20010601000000*/http://online-res... Sadly it seems that even the older snapshot is not working, so either that wasn't your url, or the wayback machine got to it too late :(
  - rocky1138 12y ago
    Aw. Seems like you're correct. Darn!
- vital101 12y ago
  I'm happy that this post and restoration have allowed so many people to visit the fond memories of their youth. In 1999 I was 13ish, so just about to enter high school. I'm also a web developer today thanks to the fumbling around I did back then!
null_ptr 12y ago
Terrific! There's something so raw and human about these old geeky websites. Random people from all over making comprehensive, quality content about the things they love and showing it to the world how they want, through their eyes. Information is cleaner and better organized now, but less personal and less fun for sure.
niix 12y ago
Beautiful. I often try to find some of my old sites. This brings back some great memories, thanks.
joshlegs 12y ago
LOLLLL. I so remember these days. I had several of my own. I think mine was "the best final fantasy 7 website out there!" Some kid emailed me to call my bluff lol. I still wish i could find mine, but i remember practically 0 about any of them :'(

67 points by vital101 12y ago

Cached (Text-only): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.re-cycledair.com/restoring-a-14-year-old-website http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

vital101 12y ago

I apologize friends, I wasn't expecting this much traffic and had just stepped out. Working on getting this back up now. Edit: It's back up. Sorry for the inconvenience!

zatkin 12y ago
The blog is working fine, but the restored website isn't returning anything. Or, perhaps, the link to the restored website is broken.
akurilin 12y ago
What are you guys running that site on, out of curiosity?
- vital101 12y ago
  Sorry, my $10 digital ocean vps is kinda struggling. The blog is hosted on WordPress, and being cached via memcache. But GA real time tells me about 300 people are on concurrently which its having trouble handling. I'll be periodically rebooting the box until I can access a computer.
  - atko 12y ago
    300 concurrent connections? Sounds great. I wish my sideproject was hit with that kind of traffic :) I'd love to see what it takes to crash it :p
Haiperlink 12y ago
Restoring a 2014 website about restoring a 14-year-old website. :)
atko 12y ago
Still down. How many concurrent connections are you getting via HN right now?

antr 12y ago

Those 'Enter' landing pages + left menu frames are classics. Good times

joshlegs 12y ago
my proudest achievement was getting 'boxless' frames working that didnt look like shit. all hand-coded

jamese 12y ago

Brings back a lot of memories of old sites worked on in the past... and table layouts abused: http://www.davidearl.ca/portfolio/ http://www.davidearl.ca/portfolio/

rocky1138 12y ago

It's amazing how many of us shared the same experiences around this time. I suspect you are 31, yes? 1999 was my favourite year in high school. My website at the time was the Armadatron, which was all things Armada (Sega Dreamcast). It was very similar in design and content, but based on the Armada universe. Players could read it to find where the best star-bases and planets were in the game, etc. I'm pretty sure the URL was http://online-resource.com/armadatron http://online-resource.com/armadatron, but the Wayback Archive redirects that URL to a parked domain. Is there any way to disable the redirect on Wayback Machine? In a small bit of success at the time, the official Armada devs linked me from their home page :) I used Frontpage Express and notepad and after hosting a different website using my ISP and Xoom, I bought my first domain and real hosting. That's back when you could only get domains from one company and had to pay for two years by cheque. It took forever, but it taught me many important things about running a website. I am a web developer, today. Thanks for the read!

Spittie 12y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20010601000000*/http://online-resource.com/Armadatron http://web.archive.org/web/20010601000000*/http://online-res... Sadly it seems that even the older snapshot is not working, so either that wasn't your url, or the wayback machine got to it too late :(
- rocky1138 12y ago
  Aw. Seems like you're correct. Darn!
vital101 12y ago
I'm happy that this post and restoration have allowed so many people to visit the fond memories of their youth. In 1999 I was 13ish, so just about to enter high school. I'm also a web developer today thanks to the fumbling around I did back then!

null_ptr 12y ago

Terrific! There's something so raw and human about these old geeky websites. Random people from all over making comprehensive, quality content about the things they love and showing it to the world how they want, through their eyes. Information is cleaner and better organized now, but less personal and less fun for sure.

niix 12y ago

Beautiful. I often try to find some of my old sites. This brings back some great memories, thanks.

joshlegs 12y ago

LOLLLL. I so remember these days. I had several of my own. I think mine was "the best final fantasy 7 website out there!" Some kid emailed me to call my bluff lol. I still wish i could find mine, but i remember practically 0 about any of them :'(