Okay, but you do realize that this requires us to bump old threads frequently so as to mess up your plan, right?
Anyways, Central Avenue should read George MacDonald's The Lost Princess with the illustrations by Bernhard Oberdieck.
And also get the actual original one by George MacDonald, the unedited version, titled The Wise Woman. Read that version later, read the one with Oberdieck's illustrations first.
Because, well, I would like to see how Central Avenue would react to that.
Well, Aliroz, why do you have to BUMP the threads?
So the last post will have been more recent, so it will not fall under the "not posted in since a certain date" category, so it won't be autolocked.
And sometimes, there were really cool old threads that I thought should be revived.
BUt, yeah, I'll stop doing thread necromancy.
It's not really fun until a thread is seven years since the last post. Then, it's like opening a time capsule to an earlier part of the forum. The longer the necro, the better.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
This isn't TVT's forum. We're not going to delete the old threads, just lock them.
That web site wasn't some fan page, or a careless job, or anything like that. It was the official page made by the people who made the movie, it was the pinnacle of internet back then. IN fact, the download for the trailer was 7.5 Megabytes! I remember back when my mom would start a download that big at Eight o'clock in the morning, and it'd be done at 4'o clock in the afternoon.
That was a professionally created site. That's what the internet was like. I remember that! Darn it, MIko.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It is pretty impressive that a site like that has managed to stay up untouched for 18 years...
It is pretty impressive that a site like that has managed to stay up untouched for 18 years...
WEll, it's the equally-old backup, WWW2. Remember WWW2 and WWW3 and that, where there would be mirrors or simply straight-up copies?
They didn't have HTTP back then. Metadata says that this backup we're looking at was edited in 05, aroudn the time that the internet was starting to get big. A lot of backups were edited in that year to add more more whatever-the-word-is-when-a-site-can-be-looked-at-by-more-people-without-crashing-or-going-slow.
I think the original was untouched.
The original www one would be super super slow and you'd have to do the thirty second wait.
GOod thing, too, or the site would have been completely lost when it appeared on the front page of REddit and got half a million views. (in fact, I think this is what destroyed the original WWW page that had been untouched since 1996). There was simply no way in heck it could take that kind of traffic.
I think the latter is more likely. IF they were going to take it down, they'd have removed the backup WWW2.
More likely, Redditors broke it, and started changing the links from WWW to WWW2 when it stopped working. If my "increased capacity" theory is correct, that would explain how WWW2 survived that inflush, and what happened to WWW.
A lot of old websites were lost in 2009 when Yahoo closed Geocities. Ryder Ripps saved a boatload of old websites, as many as he could; which is why so many old nineties websites will say on the metadata that they were modified in 2009. No real editing, just saving them with Internet Archeology.
SO, while we may not get to see that glorious metadata "modified september 2, 1996", at least we have the pages as they looked back then.
FUCK YOU GOD YOU TURNED ME INTO A GROSS HAIRY MAN WITH A COCK AND BALLS WHY WOULD YOU EVEN GOOD NIGHT
Miko, it makes me uncomfortable when you swear like that and when you talk like that about things so wonderful to me. It's your account, though, and you should post what you want and what you feel; even though it makes me rather distraught. I realize that that's exactly how you feel about that situation (distraught), and if it was me feeling that way, I might do the same thing.
Yeah, we're not deleting anything unless we absolutely have to, and seeing as the entire database takes up about 500 MB right now (tiny by 2014 standards), we won't have any need to for a while.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
We have 20 GB, and somehow we're using half of it. I'm going to see if I can remedy that.
Also, avatar storage shouldn't be a problem at all, since avatars are tiny and easily cached; it's more that I haven't found a good way to implement an avatar gallery (no one seems to have made a plugin for it).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
is fixing this going to require taking the site offline
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
And it turns out that 2 GB was devoted to an old swapfile I put in when the site still only had 512 MB RAM. It hasn't been in use for a while, so I just deleted it.
F is for the officer: Disciplined and resolute, this position requires strength, but not necesarrily wisdom, the factory weighs it against the competition.
Now: Why does GDN_Activity have over a million rows, and come out to over 200 MB of SQL? Because it's a log of everything that has ever happened on the site. Not comment bodies, of course, but just about evrything else "So-and-so posted to a thread! Someone wrote on someone else's wall!" Things like that.
I've been told that it can be purged if the past history isn't important.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Now: Why does GDN_Activity have over a million rows, and come out to over 200 MB of SQL? Because it's a log of everything that has ever happened on the site. Not comment bodies, of course, but just about evrything else "So-and-so posted to a thread! Someone wrote on someone else's wall!" Things like that.
I've been told that it can be purged if the past history isn't important.
Is THAT why the Activity page seems to load more slowly than any other page?
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Anyways, Central Avenue should read George MacDonald's The Lost Princess with the illustrations by Bernhard Oberdieck.
And also get the actual original one by George MacDonald, the unedited version, titled The Wise Woman. Read that version later, read the one with Oberdieck's illustrations first.
Because, well, I would like to see how Central Avenue would react to that.
And sometimes, there were really cool old threads that I thought should be revived.
BUt, yeah, I'll stop doing thread necromancy.
It's not really fun until a thread is seven years since the last post. Then, it's like opening a time capsule to an earlier part of the forum. The longer the necro, the better.
It's, in a way, like finding a website like http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm.
I remember sites that looked like that, I remember back when that was cutting edge and amazing.
It's like finding a dusty old book in an attic, being the first person to open it in years, and reading it.
But yeah, I'll stop. I mean, all of the not-locked threads are too young for a good necro-ing.
I'm going to hold you to this, though. No autodeleting after a certain date.
That was a professionally created site. That's what the internet was like.
I remember that!
Darn it, MIko.
They didn't have HTTP back then. Metadata says that this backup we're looking at was edited in 05, aroudn the time that the internet was starting to get big. A lot of backups were edited in that year to add more more whatever-the-word-is-when-a-site-can-be-looked-at-by-more-people-without-crashing-or-going-slow.
I think the original was untouched.
The original www one would be super super slow and you'd have to do the thirty second wait.
GOod thing, too, or the site would have been completely lost when it appeared on the front page of REddit and got half a million views. (in fact, I think this is what destroyed the original WWW page that had been untouched since 1996). There was simply no way in heck it could take that kind of traffic.
We're lucky the backup WWW2 exists.
More likely, Redditors broke it, and started changing the links from WWW to WWW2 when it stopped working. If my "increased capacity" theory is correct, that would explain how WWW2 survived that inflush, and what happened to WWW.
SO, while we may not get to see that glorious metadata "modified september 2, 1996", at least we have the pages as they looked back then.
I'm sorry.
GUYS, GUYS, LOOK AT THIS!
I remember this site: http://www.fogcam.org/
And http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html netscape.
Miko, that's only a bad thing becuase our society is a backwards ass place that can only see binary genders.
which is technically why I'm still not sure I wasnt born in some Twilight Zone episode.
And, you can't fit ten gigs. THat's impossible, you'd need ten computers.
B is for the Bailiff: Known sometimes as the humble Guard, the factory is warm with its welcome, and lasting in it farewell.
C is for the Manager: A strict and somewhat crude personality, but not without a sense of fairplay, the factory is indifferent
E is for the Jester: This individual will bear any kind of mocking, the factory offers a helping hand.
G is for the politician:
YEAH!
Has chinence gone too far?