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Post by ProfGremlin on Oct 29, 2009 22:16:59 GMT -5
Hey, folks, I've been jumping through threads here this evening and following various links and I managed to find myself out on the Web Archive. The T&T page I was on had a link to a T&T Wiki. So, having heard much about how wonderful the old Wiki was, I jumped over to it. Now, I'm not sure if this is the one that people have been discussing but I thought I'd toss the link to the main page here so at least folks wouldn't have to search high and low for it: web.archive.org/web/20040610171934/thor.acedragon.co.uk/tntwiki/The page does take longer to load than seems normal but I'm attributing that to the nature of the archive itself. |
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Post by quoghmyre on Oct 29, 2009 23:52:34 GMT -5
Yes, that looks like the one. Feel Exultated...
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Post by machfront on Oct 30, 2009 5:16:57 GMT -5
Yeah, the old pages by way of the Wayback Machine have always loaded real slow for me too and I've assumed as you did.
I remember seeing mention of this over and over as well and it took me forever to dig it up (this was about three years ago, I believe). I'd since forgotten all about it. I'm glad you posted this.
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Post by mahrundl on Oct 30, 2009 19:56:56 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the T & T Wiki died suddenly (due to a hard drive failure and no backups, I believe), and due to the nature of the Wayback Machine, we're missing the last 6 months of it (during which a substantial amount of content was added, as I recall). Still, kudos to ProfGremlin for digging this link out.
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Post by ragnorakk on Oct 30, 2009 20:08:13 GMT -5
This is neat! Interesting stuff from what, 7 years ago? Good find sir!
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Post by ProfGremlin on Oct 30, 2009 20:38:44 GMT -5
You're all quite welcome. I spent a little time today reading various sections of the wiki and I was impressed. I got to wondering if it would be worth resurrecting the project. Create a new wiki over at wikia.com or some such. Of course, a lot of what I saw was the same sort of ideas that are going on here so perhaps it would be unnecessary.
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Post by Hogscape on Oct 31, 2009 2:49:08 GMT -5
Most of the links take me to a page saying 'file not found'... *sad*
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Post by ProfGremlin on Oct 31, 2009 10:29:59 GMT -5
Hogscape,
Are you running Firefox with the NoScript add-on? I am and I found I had to enable scripts for archive.org or I got to see nothing other than the main page. If you have scripts disabled all the links try to access the url of the original site. That being gone all you'll get is "File Not Found". Once scripts are enabled the links are encapsulated to work within archive.org. So far I've delved about 3 to 4 links deep on a few pages.
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Post by quoghmyre on Oct 31, 2009 15:43:24 GMT -5
Sadly most wiki's suffer from wiki spam, one of the reasons it failed was became impossible for anyone to contribute to it was they had to lock it down. Lot of work maintaining a public wiki.
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Post by koraq on Nov 4, 2009 5:11:17 GMT -5
It's not that hard to make it depending on registration and that way make it harder to automate defacing, right?
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Post by jongjungbu on Nov 4, 2009 8:54:23 GMT -5
I don't know how Wikia works, but I know that on google sites the main admin can specify individuals that can edit the site. That's some major control there that would prevent any junk posted 99.9% of the time.
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