Post #997544
2026-04-07 20:48 UTC
Replies (16)
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@lalah@sakurajima.moe 2026-04-07 21:04
@ocean I only had one angelfire site in my bookmarks and looks like it's already gone
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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2026-04-08 00:48
@ocean Archive Team are on it, it seems: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Angelfire . Probably best to go check on the status over there on their IRC. It's very easy to contribute to Archive Team rescue ops, they have a VM image for volunteers to run that joins their swarm and contributes some bandwidth to the effort. EDIT: looks like maybe not actively crawling it right now, but if Angelfire's death is making you have activist feelings about preserving the old web, ArchiveTeam is the crew for you! They have a swarm of crawlers that can be retasked to new things, they may just need someone who cares to write the necessary code to spin up the crawl. Not sure if you can go from zero to useful in the timeframe Angelfire needs, but if you want to be a preservation activist in general, you'll probably have more impact with them than alone.
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@fullfathomfive@aus.social 2026-04-08 02:42
@ocean TIL Angelfire and Tripod are still active
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@colinstu@birdbutt.com 2026-04-08 02:51
@ocean @gothpanda the days of my first ever website https://zim.tripod.com/index.htm are numbered. And wow it's way more broken than it was just a few months ago. Good thing I ripped it years ago. (I guess)
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@cmdr_nova@null.mkultra.social 2026-04-08 04:07
@ocean oof, the last relic of the 90s internet is going away
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@artlog@agora.l0g.eu 2026-04-08 04:12
@ocean Current lycos site (https://www.lycos.com/) has a red are banner.
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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 2026-04-08 06:46
@ocean Seems you can still register to set up free accounts..
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@sberson@app.wafrn.net 2026-04-08 07:34
@ocean@raru.re 30 years is a pretty good run in internet yearz. Actually I would call that "web ancient." I thought Angelfire closed 15 years ago in fact. Frankly I am surprised that even Lycos is still going. Seems like the site is still up though.
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@r000t@ligma.pro 2026-04-08 09:00
@ocean Jesus fuck Lycos still exists?!
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@rusty__shackleford@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 13:49
@ocean @wordshaper Thank you. Investigating a scammer last year led to many lycos emails and a bunch of these sites. I need to archive everything, praying I can find those again. Oh shit. Aaaaaaand their tripod sites are gone: Link to one of their frozen steaks scam site from 1998 that was still online a few months back. https://alfordman.tripod.com/ This is unfortunate, these scam artists still operate today... Similar, but different schemes of course.
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@arch@floofy.tech 2026-04-08 15:26
@ocean Looks like all the todo items are spoken for! But I've spun up some workers just in case :3 https://tracker.archiveteam.org/angelfire/
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@twipped@twipped.social 2026-04-08 16:46
@ocean @astraluma I didn't know Lycos even still existed
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@apzpins@some.apz.fi 2026-04-08 20:46
@ocean A lot of the 90s and early 00s free web hosting sites quickly proved they were worth their price. Had multiple sites taken down when they just went belly up or deleted my account for no explanation. Geocities lived the longest out of the ones I used before I actually started to pay for hosting.
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@patchuun@social.xenofem.me 2026-04-07 20:49
@ocean oh fuck
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@rowb1t@social.xenofem.me 2026-04-07 23:36
@ocean i'm gonna be honest i was under the impression angelfire had shut down ages ago.
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@ShovelTrouble@pone.social 2026-04-13 01:31
@ocean I barely remember that domain. That's one of those free website hosts, right? For small business card websites?