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February 6, 2004

Refound Guestbook

Filed under: — Laurenz @ 6:35 am

A loooooong time ago, I did not yet have a domain of my own. I already had a guestbook though.
The guestbook was hosted on Tripod and worked very well. It was surprising how many people left a message there.
So, I was not happy when the guestbook suddenly disappeared after the takeover of Tripod by Lycos.

A few days ago, I had an idea: there is a so-called Internet archive (Wayback Machine) that tries to preserve pages in their various stages. And indeed, my guestbook was there! One page of 170 kb, text only.
I saved it to disk, divided it into more digestible portions and uploaded it to
Travelphoto.net.
Thanks, “Wayback Machine”!

Laurenz

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