A placeholder site
Hi all,
As you may recall, my Number 96 Home Page (est. 1996) at members.ozemail.com.au/~lindsay96/ vanished without warning last year, so while I waited for action from my service provider, the most frequently-used elements (such as the episode guide) had to be urgently retrieved from Wayback Machine (because my original HTML files are on a dinosaur computer, and recent updates had been done to the site live). All old "free" webpages had been wiped clean in an overhaul of their system.
Thus, I had hastily uploaded this placeholder site on Blogger. I was able to transfer the number96.tv domain name to here instead, plus the year-by-year episode guides. (At least when people typed in the domain name, they had something to view; the 1999 edition of the home page is also archived on Pandora, but that version is long out of date.) Then, while re-creating and improving the old character guide from my retrieved data, my computer crashed... just as I got to "Z" on the list. I was mere seconds away from uploading to the blog. When I finally got back in, hours and hours of work had vanished. Even the "auto save" function on Blogger had failed.
A few days later, my service provider's new owners announced that they had found the data for my lost Ozemail/iiNet webpages and, even though "free" webspace was no longer something they offered, I was a valued longtime customer and they restored it anyway. Disaster averted.
I'm finally getting back to restoring/improving the character guide and placing the updates here on the blog. (One day, I'll get my improvements duplicated across to the webspace version, which is well overdue for a complete overhaul.) Go HERE to see what I've been up to. Currently up to "H"...
As you may recall, my Number 96 Home Page (est. 1996) at members.ozemail.com.au/~lindsay96/ vanished without warning last year, so while I waited for action from my service provider, the most frequently-used elements (such as the episode guide) had to be urgently retrieved from Wayback Machine (because my original HTML files are on a dinosaur computer, and recent updates had been done to the site live). All old "free" webpages had been wiped clean in an overhaul of their system.
Thus, I had hastily uploaded this placeholder site on Blogger. I was able to transfer the number96.tv domain name to here instead, plus the year-by-year episode guides. (At least when people typed in the domain name, they had something to view; the 1999 edition of the home page is also archived on Pandora, but that version is long out of date.) Then, while re-creating and improving the old character guide from my retrieved data, my computer crashed... just as I got to "Z" on the list. I was mere seconds away from uploading to the blog. When I finally got back in, hours and hours of work had vanished. Even the "auto save" function on Blogger had failed.
A few days later, my service provider's new owners announced that they had found the data for my lost Ozemail/iiNet webpages and, even though "free" webspace was no longer something they offered, I was a valued longtime customer and they restored it anyway. Disaster averted.
I'm finally getting back to restoring/improving the character guide and placing the updates here on the blog. (One day, I'll get my improvements duplicated across to the webspace version, which is well overdue for a complete overhaul.) Go HERE to see what I've been up to. Currently up to "H"...
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