Remembering the Choices of Old Sites

[telescopes]

Few things are more beautiful than lost irony.

Please, don’t be so hard on yourself , .

 

[telescopes]

Intention certainly carries a lot of weight. Though people are not always too honest about those.

Which is one thing people forget a lot is the importance of context. It's way different to make off color jokes with your friends at a bar versus a daycare with the crumb snatchers running around.

Totally. I don't mind if someone explains to me why they feel that way.
That said I do have this game I play where I like coming up with jokes that are funny enough that people who are offended by them give me a pass. It's a lot harder to lecture someone after you've laughed at their nonsense.
The thing is we're really in a weird time right now. Everyone has access to everyone and that means a lot of basic social issues that used to be relatively easy to learn are now all over the place. I think like a lot of these odd issues we'll figure out a better way to deal with it, but we get to live through the stop gap until then. Like how weird is it that I am chatting with people I have never met that are spread all over the world right now? Not really something most people have had to deal with through most of history.

I couldn’t agree with you more. Obviously my first reply to your post was a bit of parody - with a specific person in mind - but I couldn’t agree with you more - it all comes down to getting along and refraining from some of the things you pointed out. It’s all too easy to get into a pissing match - and forums seem to lend themselves to just that type of behavior. I don’t have a solution. I wish I did.

 

[georged]

What ever happened to Michael Lindner at thepiperack? He was an incredibly talented artisan.

He just decided to move on.

He still makes a pipe now and again at a friend's shop, but no longer owns any equipment.

The piperack website stayed up for a short while after he left (someone took it over), but that didn't work out either.

 

[huntertrw]

Regarding Chris Keene's Pipe Pages, sablebrush52 wrote (above):

It might have been preserved in some form on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

I checked that site and here's a link to the search results it returned. Lots of what appear to be individual .jpg images from the first two Web addresses shown, but I didn't see any of the old familiar catalogs. Am I missing something here (besides not knowing how to use the Archive's Wayback Machine)?

 

[9mmpuffer]

Neil's doing fine. He's on to other things. At one point he was considering a book containing the best content from A Passion For Pipes, but it didn't happen.
It's a shame that the site isn't available. There was a lot of great content, some of which I managed to copy down before the site went dark.

weird how he's just left the community and took his site down.

 

[georged]

weird how he's just left the community and took his site down.

His blog/site was a casualty of Internet dynamics. He wanted the entire project to be enlightening and educational, what he got (after a while) were non-stop arguments and nastiness.

Since being what amounted to a moderator in addition to writing the articles wasn't the plan (not to mention receiving significant personal attacks and abuse that accompanied it), so he finally pulled the plug.

The reason for full "erasure" without warning was to allow for the possibility of publishing the content later as a book, without getting tangled in copyright crap. Something more-or-less guaranteed if people started copying and publishing his content elsewhere on the Net in the meantime.

 

[sablebrush52]

Regarding Chris Keene's Pipe Pages, sablebrush52 wrote (above):


I checked that site and here's a link to the search results it returned. Lots of what appear to be individual .jpg images from the first two Web addresses shown, but I didn't see any of the old familiar catalogs. Am I missing something here (besides not knowing how to use the Archive's Wayback Machine)?

The Wayback Machine takes snapshots of sites on different days. Some of those snapshots are very limited while others can be very complete. One has to go through all of the available snapshots to gather what is still available.

 

[huntertrw]

One has to go through all of the available snapshots to gather what is still available.

Well, that will be a cinch...there are only 1,846 images!

 

[Briar Lee]

His blog/site was a casualty of Internet dynamics. He wanted the entire project to be enlightening and educational, what he got (after a while) were non-stop arguments and nastiness.

Since being what amounted to a moderator in addition to writing the articles wasn't the plan (not to mention receiving significant personal attacks and abuse that accompanied it), so he finally pulled the plug.

The reason for full "erasure" without warning was to allow for the possibility of publishing the content later as a book, without getting tangled in copyright crap. Something more-or-less guaranteed if people started copying and publishing his content elsewhere on the Net in the meantime.

My Grandmother wrote a weekly column for the Hermatige Index from sometime when the owner hired her as an eye candy tall teenaged girl in the teens until her last column in 1980, for his son.

The paper’s owner holds all the copyrights, still today.

But in 1960, Hollywood artfully skirted liability by adding Mr Drysdale and his secretary and moving Ma and Pa and Saydee and Sy Thomas from Bug Tussle to Beverly Hills.

Then came Petticoat Junction.

(Guess where Hooterville is?)

And Green Acres

I’m proud to say my grandfather never smoked anything but his cob pipe in the weekly columns in The Index, no matter how many cartons of Winstons they mailed to Gramdma.

Before she died she appointed me, her literary executor.

And said if it’s for a righteous purpose, always give permission.

I still get a few letters from her aging fan base, but more and more from graduate students at the University of Missouri, which surely would make her so proud she’d almost be about to bust.

 

[sablebrush52]

Well, that will be a cinch...there are only 1,846 images!

Then rejoice! For chances are the entire site has been archived, not just snippets. Try by jumping around the snapshots and when you hit a snapshot that's fairly complete, mine the other snapshots around it.

 

[Zamora]

I have a soft spot for pre 2010ish websites in general. They have such a charm that Facebook could never, Facebook really is the Walmart of the internet