11 Jan
2007
11 Jan
'07
3:34 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
A lot of stuff definitely was taken offline. Just not all at once.
I remember around '87-88 or so I dl'd the entire OSI library because it
was scheduled to be taken offline. Disk space I believe was the reason
given. And it was removed.
The TI sig. at least the file libraries, is archived at ftp.whtech.com.
When it was folded into the Orphan Computer sig, some of it (messages,
mostly, I *think*) was taken offline. Again disk usage was the reason
given, as I recall.
I'm sure some other forums have been preserved in different places, too.
That's about the best that could be hoped for unless Compuserve has
archive tapes and could put the material back online. Some of it is
proprietary, though. I'd like to get the Pecan Software libraries for
the P-system stuff, for instance, but I don't know if they're even still
in business, and I'm not sure if I remember correctly how the licensing
went for the 3rd-party forums CIS hosted.
I imagine CIS has some right to put at least the user contributed stuff
back up, but maybe just not enough interest has been expreesed. The
legal department, would probably want authorization from the forum owner
regardless, probably.
jbdigriz
On 1/10/07, Jim Leonard <trixter at
oldskool.org> wrote:
That's interesting - if they've gone to the extent of retaining old
logins it would suggest that they're expecting to entice a few original
customers back based on nostalgia; for that reason you'd think they'd
keep the content that those customers were used to available too (anyone
know what sort of total size the "old stuff" would amount to? Presumably
we're not talking that much in modern terms...)
cheers
Jules
For anyone who's gotten in: Are the old file
archives still there and
intact? There's a lot of stuff there that never made its way onto BBSes
and the 'net...
I would be surprised to hear that anyone runs across any content - I
went looking for it with my work PPN in 2000 and couldn't find
diddly-squat. I was told that all the "old stuff" had been taken off
some time before.