View older versions of the COH website

Rigo42 · December 16, 2012, 11:21:33 PM

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 · December 16, 2012, 11:45:01 PM

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Not everything has been archived yet, though.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 · December 17, 2012, 04:33:33 AM

:( Just makes me want to play again that much more.

corvus1970 · December 17, 2012, 04:53:47 AM

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 · December 17, 2012, 05:42:38 AM

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

Mandrake · December 17, 2012, 06:40:10 AM

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 · December 17, 2012, 07:31:53 AM

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 · December 17, 2012, 08:28:46 AM

Quote from: Krnl_Mandrake on December 17, 2012, 06:40:10 AMMy 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.

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

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