A moment of silence please

[Brad_tilf]

As I am cleaning up dead links on Doom Wad Station, I am reminded of ALL the websites and mod sites, etc... that have gone 404 over the years. I feel it is only fitting that in memory of these now dead and buried sites that we have a moment of silence. There are far too many to list individually here but a few notables are Newdoom.com and the Amphibians mod for Doom 3 as well as Hell on Earth.

[wheresthebeef]

On that note, I'd like to pour one out for the long dead Planet of the Imps

[MrFlibble]

Have these sites been archived to any extent by the Wayback Machine? Even if not it would make sense to keep a listing of sites that have gone offline, if only to preserve their memory/knowledge that such sites existed.

[Doomkid]

I have a list of 194 outdated/archived Doom sites on Doomshack, if you have any links, even if dead, please do share them and I’ll be happy to add them to the pile.

 

https://doomshack.org/olddoomsites.html

[Brad_tilf]

55 minutes ago, MrFlibble said:

Have these sites been archived to any extent by the Wayback Machine? Even if not it would make sense to keep a listing of sites that have gone offline, if only to preserve their memory/knowledge that such sites existed.

 

I'm sure they have. I personally just remove the dead links but leave the link name on the page it was on with a (404) note next to it.

[ETTiNGRiNDER]

Too often we take this digital world for granted without realizing how ephemeral it really is.

 

I'll give a particular nod to Waldo's Hexen Page which hung on for quite a long time but that I finally had to move to the "dead links" section of my page in one of my recent cleanups.

[Misty]

So much doom community history is lost in time and net, only to be forgotten. On a bit happy note, this preserved page still allows you to download these maps, if these aren't in idgames, it would be great to bring them here. 

http://web.archive.org/web/19961220130537/http://www.iit.edu/~cisojoh/wads.html

[Linguica]

I do have a weird sort of mourning for the lost world wide web of the late 1990s. When the sites just sort of sprang out of the aether, like a supersaturated solution crystallizing around a seed. 

[Doom_Dude]

Oddly enough I was rooting about recently on one of my external drives and found a bunch of pages from the old The Eye of Horus site that was a decent reference for editing Hexen II.

 

As for Newdoom, it still seems strange that it's all gone. I'm sure Grimlock would have the site backups packed away somewhere as he was doing the server stuffs. A number of times I was going to ask him about that but never did. I haven't spoken to those guys in a very long time.

[Mayomancer]

well this gem is still online: http://toastytech.com/index.html

[GooberMan]

Wait, are you saying fiffy's site is gone? Or is my google-fu less than white belt level?

[Brad_tilf]

18 hours ago, Linguica said:

I do have a weird sort of mourning for the lost world wide web of the late 1990s. When the sites just sort of sprang out of the aether, like a supersaturated solution crystallizing around a seed. 

 

There have been alot of good sites over the years that just sort of became fallen soldiers. It's a shame really and it's good the wayback machine captured them but that's not quite the same

[Brad_tilf]

21 hours ago, Misty said:

So much doom community history is lost in time and net, only to be forgotten. On a bit happy note, this preserved page still allows you to download these maps, if these aren't in idgames, it would be great to bring them here. 

http://web.archive.org/web/19961220130537/http://www.iit.edu/~cisojoh/wads.html

 

I went one better. I downloaded the content for his Doom 2 page and put it on Doom Wad Station @ http://doomwadstation.net/jcd/

Linked it from my main page. Hopefully people will now see it and get to enjoy the maps. :-)

[nrofl]

Unfortunately most of these sites are gone. But they're absolute time capsules to look at and see a different time. On a happier note, I found this: 

https://web.archive.org/web/20091021225317/http://geocities.com/doomology/wads.html

I dont know if these are already on the idgames archive, but I believe that the author of all of these is B.P.R.D.

 

Also does anyone know where he went? He kinda went poof after HAND.

[Empyre]

By HAND, do you mean hand.wad, which replaces all the doom weapons with a hand? That wad is brilliant, except the plasma gun hand covers a bit too much of the screen, right in the middle.