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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
Welcome interested people, 2600 Readers, and everyone else! I couldn't wait, so here is the article!
Published in 2600 - The Hacker Quarterly, Summer 2007
By ilikenwf (A.K.A. Matt Parnell)
Archaeology is a term that describes unearthing an artifact that is
old, long lost, or forgotten. The internet is no different from the
real world in the sense that it too has artifacts of media from days
gone by. You just have to know where to look. The best place to start
is the Internet Archive "Wayback Marchine," which houses
over
8 Petabytes of old information gleaned from the earliest days of the
Internet up to now. Just put in an address, and you can view a site,
provided it was indexed, all the way back to 1996.
Beginning Methodology
I had wanted to find as much "lost" TechTV and ZDTV media as possible,
for nostalgia's sake. Starting out, I just was viewing the sites by
individual archive dates. This was way too tedious and time consuming
to be worth while, and it didn't really give me much to work with.
Digging around on the archive's information pages, I discovered that
searching sites with wildcards (*) is supported. To give it a shot, I
typed in "http://www.techtv.com/*", as well as "http://www.zdtv.com/*".
These searches yielded long lists (45,000+) of pages from the two
domains. At first it was really slow to sift through the information,
until I found a way to speed it up - go to the bottom of the search
page, and set the number of results displayed to 30. Then, when the
page reloads, the url will look like this: "http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_30/http://url.com/*".
Just change the 30 to a reasonable number that won't cause your browser
to crash and load the page from your edited url. The list will be much
larger, therefore you don't have to click "next" over and over again.
Then, scroll/pagedown through the content looking for interestingly
named files, and files with uncommon extensions, like pdf, psd, zip,
etc. Find one, click the link, and if there is only one copy of that
file in the archive, it will pop right up unless it was indexed
incorrectly. Otherwise, you will get a choice of dates the file was
archived on. Choose the first one. Keep working through the dates until
you find a good uncorrupted copy of the file (see tips and tricks
section for expanation).
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
These are all in Megaupload folders, to conserve bandwidth. I know that some of these folders will appear familiar, but I have updated most of them. If you want to download for free, and download multiple files at line speed, check out Daiphier's Megaupload Premium Link Generator. It only works at certain hours, but it works for most files to save time. Feel free to post these links anywhere you like, just post a link back to this page whenever you do, please.
As promised, here they are:
Dairanger Entire Season
A TON of Fox Kids Videos (Capped and encoded by Me)
A Few 1990's Nickelodeon Videos (Capped and encoded by Me)
A Ginormeous Folder of Power Rangers "extras" (behind the scenes, specials, etc..)
A Folder of Power Rangers Bumpers (between show clips)
A Folder of CBS Kids Video Clips (Capped and Encoded by Me)
A Folder of Funny 80's Commercials (Capped and Encoded by Me)
I will have some 90's commercials up soon!
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
Well, I have been really busy lately and haven't posted anything interesting. So, I guess this will have to do, although I plan on releasing some neat media tomorrow, time permitting.
What has happened recently:
My Article has come out in 2600. I will post that next week.
There was recently a Woot-off, in which I bought nothing as none of it appealed to me.
I have successfully compiled my first custom Linux kernel (from the Vanilla source), and am running fast. Besides some tweaks I performed in the config, I used the ck1 patch for even more performance. Check it out!
The Power Rangers 15th Anniversary Special aired today on Disney. It was pretty good. You can see the various opinions at Rangerboard. Once somebody posts an encode of it up there, I promise I will put a link up for everybody here.
Besides that, I have college registration coming up, and am trying to get my fianancial junk figured out. I am also restoring a classic car, working, and experimenting with blackhat SEO.
I guess those justify the long time since my last post. Don't despair, because I hope to post frequently once more.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
Do you remember the ZDTV Chat Palace? If so, it used the Palace chat system, which allows a fun environment with moving avatars and speech bubbles. ZDTV was known for its chat Palace, and ever since, I have tried to put one together...but couldn't, as I didn't have the files. Recently, someone contacted me saying they had a set of ZDTV files from the past. They showed me their findings, which happened to be the ZDTV chat palace in its entirety. He has set it up at http://www.zdchat.org . You either need to use Netscape 4.79, or the Palace Chat Client. Either way, it is worth taking a look for old times sake, and maybe have a "town meeting" again.
In other news, there is currently a Woot-Off going on.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
I got mine!..I think! w00t! Did you get yours yet? If so, why are you reading this? GO GET IT!
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