2026-04-07 20:48 UTC
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@lalah@sakurajima.moe 2026-04-07 21:04
@ocean I only had one angelfire site in my bookmarks and looks like it's already gone
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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2026-04-08 00:48
@ocean Archive Team are on it, it seems: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Angelfire . Probably best to go check on the status over there on their IRC. It's very easy to contribute to Archive Team rescue ops, they have a VM image for volunteers to run that joins their swarm and contributes some bandwidth to the effort. EDIT: looks like maybe not actively crawling it right now, but if Angelfire's death is making you have activist feelings about preserving the old web, ArchiveTeam is the crew for you! They have a swarm of crawlers that can be retasked to new things, they may just need someone who cares to write the necessary code to spin up the crawl. Not sure if you can go from zero to useful in the timeframe Angelfire needs, but if you want to be a preservation activist in general, you'll probably have more impact with them than alone.
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@fullfathomfive@aus.social 2026-04-08 02:42
@ocean TIL Angelfire and Tripod are still active
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@colinstu@birdbutt.com 2026-04-08 02:51
@ocean @gothpanda the days of my first ever website https://zim.tripod.com/index.htm are numbered. And wow it's way more broken than it was just a few months ago. Good thing I ripped it years ago. (I guess)
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@cmdr_nova@null.mkultra.social 2026-04-08 04:07
@ocean oof, the last relic of the 90s internet is going away
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@artlog@agora.l0g.eu 2026-04-08 04:12
@ocean Current lycos site (https://www.lycos.com/) has a red are banner.
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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 2026-04-08 06:46
@ocean Seems you can still register to set up free accounts..
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@r000t@ligma.pro 2026-04-08 09:00
@ocean Jesus fuck Lycos still exists?!
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@arch@floofy.tech 2026-04-08 15:26
@ocean Looks like all the todo items are spoken for! But I've spun up some workers just in case :3 https://tracker.archiveteam.org/angelfire/
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@twipped@twipped.social 2026-04-08 16:46
@ocean @astraluma I didn't know Lycos even still existed
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@patchuun@social.xenofem.me 2026-04-07 20:49
@ocean oh fuck
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@rowb1t@social.xenofem.me 2026-04-07 23:36
@ocean i'm gonna be honest i was under the impression angelfire had shut down ages ago.