In the same manner...

... some self-boasting.

Liriels old Link page

Yes, I was reported a broken link at that time, but since I restored that old page... makes me chuckle.

The Wheel 2.0

I did it. The thing just did not let me go. I believe, sometimes a little obsessiveness does a little good to all. I managed to restore the VRI Message Base Archives as part of my page by means of a 2001 Wayback machine capture. It is navigable by now, I placed it in the Miscellaneous section. Bear with the thing, I only made the integral linking structure work. I will not edit anything else. that's simply not meant to be done.

I mean... wow. I read this, and I remember. Not as clearly as if it had been yesterday, to pick up some of the clichés, but I do remember. It was 1997 and the following years. By the time the real communication lines were established, this board was obsolete, and by the end, it was trolled to death, but I read names from a past that have haunted me ever since. I may add that someone from this era only contacted me less than a year ago, I believe, totally out of the blue. It nagged me ever since to live with the impression that a wildly rumored "secret beginning" may be lost forever, with all its ups and downs. So hey guys, it is no secret and mysterious past in the depths and darks of our society. It is here, right before your eyes. It exists. We were there. We were Sasha, and Diane, and Craig, and Sangi, and Sphynx, and Namadie... we were all these people. Some of us still are.

The VRI has closed its doors in 2002. This is exactely 10 years ago. Even though I did not match this intentionally, I think it is a nice sidekick that adds to the uuhhh spooky historical feeling of it.

But please guys, no birthday letters, 'kay? I am already feeling really weird about this. Weird in a good sense. And in a sense that makes me feel a little older than 5 hours ago.

Re-Inventing the Wheel

I seem to have a habit of doing the same things several times.

Only minutes ago, I talked to a friend about having stored the VRI Message Base files from 1997 two years ago but never having been able to launch them as a piece of memory. He wanted to see them and what happend: whoosh I find out I don't have them anymore. Seems they did not survive one of my 3 pc shreddings in the near past. However, I found some of them again. Some - and less than the last time. The old things vanish tracelessly. I queried in the same manner (at least approximately) as the last time and I found them fairly quickly, a rudimentary version of them still lingers on some fortunecity page, since Liriels own site is down since nearly a decade. But this time I only found the files until January 1999, also missing the originally linking archive mainsite, and I know there were more. I remember them having been stored until they became obsolete by means of new means of communications. The last entries were troll attacks which caused the guestbook (which it originally was indeed) to produce wrecked code. But I am not sure how much has been lost. I saved what I found, beginning in March 1997.

I hope I might be able to install them as an asset on my subdomain. But first, I need an FTP program that will work with 64 bit... I am not able to use my old program anymore which sux big time.

Damn... I should have done that when I still had more of them...