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What happened to old-computers.com?

Hello! I’m new here, but I’ve long appreciated the Old computers.com website and I’ve found it a very useful source of information. I’m just wondering if there’s been any progress on getting it back up in some form, or if there’s any plan for the information on the site to be in some other format, since it would be a shame for it to go to waste in my opinion.
 
Redempshin said:
Did this ever get any traction on rebuilding the content (even as a static site)? It seems there is/was a lot of interest in helping, so it would be a bummer for it to fizzle out. Even if the backup was released as a ZIP and "no support offered or implied" it the data could be there. I've been using the wayback machine, but it's not always a willing participant.
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Hello!

I am sorry for being sloppy for lost the user and pass of this account. Nuf'said I found the paper just now. :p

I discussed this with my fellow friends that are on the old computer scene. They gave me a solution.

I don't want to break any copyright rule hosting rogue places with the backup (google drive, mega, dropbox, etc.), so the best way is to donate the copy to the Internet Archive. In that case the owners of the site can remove the file if they want of. And people that need info about the computers can have a sort of medium in case the wayback machine don't want to cooperate.

Just get aware that the backup is from 2008 and only cover computers info from now. Html only with the original images apart. EDIT: Alphabetical mode only as you will see folders with the first letter of the computer's name.

Maybe I saved consoles or pong sub-sites I need to dig my hoard of dvds.

Stay tuned.
 
Hello again!

I opened an account on Internet Archive. The archive is like 2GB and got compressed in mere 350MB as 7z file. "No support offered or implied" Just html files and images, load them in your browser.

As I stated, the information compliments the contents in the Wayback Machine until March 2009.

I hope this can help as a foundation for get a new site online eventually.

The link to Internet archive
Partial offline backup old-computers.com (2008)
 
Good news!

Console and pong sections are found! I will post them as a handy "2009 version" package, also I noticed that I saved random pages of new computers after March 2009.

So the second 7z file will have all the rest of my backup.
 

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Finally I got time for seek the rest of DVDs and put together everything in a 7z file. The total backup uncompressed is like +3GB of files in both 7z. "No support offered or implied" Just html files and images, load them in your browser.

Again I remark that I post nonprofit for the community and of course the owners of the site can remove the files if they want.

So "that's all folks!" ;)

Link to the archive:

Partial offline backup old-computers.com (2009) by Old-computers.com editors ​

 
richardelric said:
It was there when I first saw it. I don’t know why it would be live to be honest.
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What was there when you first saw it? And why would the site not be "live," for whatever definition that is for what you saw? (And what was I supposed to gain from having checked out that link in the first place?)

I'm finding your posts very mysterious. I am guessing you have some particular thoughts in mind about all of this that you're not telling us.
 
cjs said:
What was there when you first saw it? And why would the site not be "live," for whatever definition that is for what you saw? (And what was I supposed to gain from having checked out that link in the first place?)

I'm finding your posts very mysterious. I am guessing you have some particular thoughts in mind about all of this that you're not telling us.
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It was like how you showed it when I first shared the link. I though that it meant something when I shared it rather than being completely dead.
 
richardelric said:
It was like how you showed it when I first shared the link. I though that it meant something when I shared it rather than being completely dead.
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Ah! No, that page is expected; the site was probably wiped, but not taken off line. IIRC, the issue is not that the server itself is broken, but that every time he puts the software back up to serve the actual site data it gets immediately hacked again.
 
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