I woke up too early, but here are a few notes before I go back to bed.HELPER HINTS: HTML files often change over time as webpages are updated. Be sure to check an assortment of dates (if available) to see if anything interesting happened. Also, try to save any SWF files (right click, save link as). They do neat stuff.
- The 2000 "Space Daria" intro page
- Daria's "complete party planner"
- The Lawndale High webpage (with history!)
- Mack and Jodie tell all about the LHS website
- Ms. Li's welcome message
- An old Virtual Lawndale page
- A difficult-to-get reprint of an article in YM Magazine about Daria
- Quinn's school locker
- Space Quinn's web page (missing one image that has been saved elsewhere, that of Space Quinn)
I keep thinking there must be some way to use the coding to recreate certain pages, taking out whatever glitch there is that keeps cutting off the later pages with error messages. The pages have been revised by the WayBack Machine to preserve page integrity (as special inserts in the coding tell you), so they will draw material from the WayBack Machine, not from nonexistent sites. If properly revised, the coding pages could also draw images from your own sources, if you are able to recover them or find substitutes. I may give this a try to re-create certain pages that look especially nice. The "Broodbeat" section is pretty funny and deserves a look, for instance, and the Space Family Morgendorffer stuff is great.
Back to bed. Let me know how this all works out for you. Power to the fandom!
P.S. Why does Kevin have brown hair instead of black on his sports card?
4 comments:
Have you tried HTTrack Site Copier?
You could direct it at the old pages ant it automatically downloads all the content so you can run the site offline- good way to keep directory structure intact- saves you point and click.
I just tested it on your blog? even saves the offsite links you provide to way-back sources!
So I bet if you had it archive the searches you suggested it'd download the info automatically.
I'll try that when I get home!
Have I tried the what? You are talking to an old person here.
well I've been running this software that automatically downloads an entire websites content- including links.
Might ask some of the people who understand these things on PPMB if you could use these 'web-site download' software things to download the lost-stuff turning up via wayback- it does a thorough job of automatically doing it so you don't have to point and click- and it also saves intact links from certain pages.
For example I tried it on your blog- and the virtual lawndale sites you posted were downloaded intact. Soo... might be a way to make things easier so and more effecient. also make re-creating them easier too.
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