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Web preservation

DonZabuDonZabu
edited 2012-05-12 15:03:59 in Webspace

I discovered recently that, from 1985 to the early 2000s, there was a company called Tasty Fries that tried to make a French fry vending machine. I found out from this website, which includes pictures of the machine and its insides:


http://rotten.com/library/culture/french-fries/


I had to dig really deep to find more information about this, including court documents, just to make sure it was true, and I discovered that the company had a website, Tastyfries.com.


The problem? Tastyfries.com isn't online anymore. I don't know when it went offline, and there aren't any archives of it. And I couldn't find those pictures of the machine's insides that the Rotten.com page has anywhere else on the net, so I can only assume that they came from the Tastyfries.com page itself, and that Rotten.com is the only reason I can see them right now. A secondhand stroke of luck.


Discuss.

Comments

  • DonZabuDonZabu

    It's not just that old web artifacts keep dropping off the face of the Earth, either: it's that, of the surviving artifacts, you can't even find them through regular Googling. I Googled "french fries" just to see if the Rotten.com page would pop up, and I went for 15 pages of Google results before I called it quits. I don't even remember how I discovered the Rotten Library originally.


    Another example: look at the classic adventure game MOTAS:


    http://www.albartus.com/motas/


    Look at the links on the left. Half of those links don't even work anymore, but here's one of them that does:


    http://www.looriva.com/


    It's a glorious menagerie of old-school 3D graphics and 90's design philosophies, and if you can find it on Google without typing in "Looriva", I'll buy you the car of your choice. Incidentally, I did Google "Looriva" to see what other pages displayed it, and I found this:


    http://www.decklinsdomain.com/games/GI0_18.htm


    The only way I can find old web pages is in relation to other old web pages.


    So: what's with this massive disconnect between the Internet of now and the Internet of ten or even six years ago? How did Internet dwellers back then find this stuff?

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Yeah, I mentioned something like that in a thread I started some time ago. I have some stuff on my hard drive that mey be the last what's left of a very peculiar parody website.

  • DonZabuDonZabu

    ^ What's it about?

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Crazy parody of Black Metal. Satanist rituals requiring an old cassette player with Behemoth's "Grom" or demos as necessary components. One of the writers (or one of the writer characters, if you know what I mean) using the moniker Atheisthor. The hordes bands described, like KANIBAL SZATAN or Belpheghorhoth. And the guestbook was just as crazy.


    I have some pictures and stuff. 


     

  • DonZabuDonZabu

    That sounds awesome, let's see it.

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

     


    kkk


    Consumed Alive By Evil Men 

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