Date   : Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:15:45 -0000
From   : blip@... (John)
Subject: Loss of BBC / Acorn sites

Hi Paul

 

Preserving the sites in their original form is an interesting proposition -
how pure should we be, will future generations look back and say 'you
shouldn't have interfered, just left the links alone as the PHP was an
interesting web development...'?

 

Tough call. I suppose if the information is there, you can always point
people in the right direction. Thanks for the feedback, and keep up the good
work.

 

Kind regards

 

 

John Terry

 

PS. How does the site work via the webring? Is it just some kind of URL
store?

 

From: bbc-micro-bounces+blip=blipit.com@...
[mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+blip=blipit.com@...] On Behalf Of
Paul Vernon
Sent: 29 February 2016 15:14
To: 'BBC Micro Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Loss of BBC / Acorn sites

 

> e.g. the www links here
<http://archive.retro-kit.co.uk/bbc.nvg.org/netresource.php3.html>
http://archive.retro-kit.co.uk/bbc.nvg.org/netresource.php3.html are largely
broken. 

 

I run the retro-kit site.

 

The links are broken but the content is actually there. The reason why
they're broken is that the server it's available in doesn't support PHP.

 

So for instance, the link
<http://archive.retro-kit.co.uk/bbc.nvg.org/dir.php3%40dir=disk/watford.html
>
http://archive.retro-kit.co.uk/bbc.nvg.org/dir.php3@...=disk%2Fwatford.html

 

is broken but...

 

the information is available by modifying the link to this:

 

http://archive.retro-kit.co.uk/bbc.nvg.org/disk/watford/index.html

 

All of the content from the site is fully archived, I had intended going
through the archive and fixing the old dynamic nature of the site as it ran
on a PHP server so that it was flattened out and still navigable. Time
however is always against me...

 

Paul