View older versions of the COH website

[Rigo42]

First of all, my apologizes, this does not really contribute to the "SAVE COH" movement at all, I just thought it was neat.


I recently stumbled upon a website called "Waybackmachine"


The way it works, is you go here
http://archive.org/web/web.php


At the top of the page you enter in the URL, if it goes thru you can view archived websites from years upon years ago.  I am currently viewing the COH website in 2004, and man the nostalgic rush.


Also, if you want a direct link to it, this works as well

http://web.archive.org/web/20021017215915/http://www.cityofheroes.com/features.htm

[The Fifth Horseman]

Yeah, Wayback Machine is great,
Not everything has been archived yet, though. Most recent stuff will only go live around the end of May.

[Noyjitat]

Just makes me want to play again that much more.

[corvus1970]

Wow...I had almost forgotten just how far the game has come since then graphically.

And check out that old configuration of Atlas Park!

http://web.archive.org/web/20021201082008/http://www.cityofheroes.com/screen14.htm

[Perfidus]

What I wouldn't give to just play that. Beta version. Don't care, just give me something.

[Mandrake]

My only weird issue with wbt is that I keep getting the NCSOFT - Heroes is gone, thanks for everything, keep flying blah blah blah splash page any time I go more than one or two levels into the forums. In any year. Even if I go wayyyyy back.

I've double checked everything I can think of, cache, etc. I can't begin to think how or why archive.org would be redirecting to a 'new' splash page from 'old' archives. Tried diff browsers and installed a new one even just to triple check. They can't 'backwords' eat the archives with redirects can they?

[Rigo42]

That is really odd, I seemed to only get that during a certain time frame, which I can not remember.

I find the Arena issue the most nostalgic for me to read, that was around when I first joined.

[The Fifth Horseman]

My only weird issue with wbt is that I keep getting the NCSOFT - Heroes is gone, thanks for everything, keep flying blah blah blah splash page any time I go more than one or two levels into the forums. In any year. Even if I go wayyyyy back.

That means the page in question has not been archived. Wayback Machine then attempts to send you to the live URL with it as a proxy.

They can't 'backwords' eat the archives with redirects can they?

No, altough they can 'eat' them period using robots.txt .