This is the first post of what I’m thinking will be a three-part series on the actual process of saving fan sites. I should have started documenting my steps a long time ago, but I guess I’ll just have to see how well my memory serves me. Looking through the folder on my computer that …
Members of the Handshake community are always developing new things to further the ecosystem. One such member created the search engine HNSSearch which indexes websites built on Handshake names. This tool has been around for a few months but it was pretty bare-bones. Some sites were indexed but most had to be individually requested by …
This post is sort of a Part 2 to the last one. After the last post I was able to successfully access the Pirate101 Loot website at loot.p101, but there was a little bit of an issue. In order to access the content of the website, I had to navigate to loot.p101/pirate101loot.webs.com. This technically works, …
Just a moment ago I finalized loot.p101 and rehosted a mirror that was created with WinHTTrack. Loot.p101 is a perfect example of the typical Pirate101 fansite: ambitious yet short-lived. The author created a website using Webs.com in October 2012 that sought to catalog all of the premium items in the game. The site mentions “pirate101loot.com” …
Until now, all of the proxies I have created centered on independent websites and Blogger sites. These are fairly straight forward to proxy using Apache’s mod_proxy_html package and there are enough (but I won’t say plenty of-) tutorials online to throw something together that works most of the time. With all of the low-hanging fruit …
The past few months I have been working to preserve what is left of the Pirate 101 community and make it more accessible for content viewers and creators alike. I have finally setup the Network Information Center as a central hub for all of the official and fan sites of the community such they can …