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Home Page...Something Strange Has Happened To Two Of My Websites...
Catholic
Defenders
Of The
Faith...
It was successful and ran for many years with no
problems. Then Yahoo came along and merged Geocities into its fold. Soon after
that commercial ads appeared on my webpages and I soon lost interest in it. But
I did continue to update some key pages on it for awhile. My last update
was in November 2007. Then about a month ago I tried to check it again and
was surprised to find a message from Yahoo that Geocities no longer existed. My
website was gone entirely. But here is the strange part. Someone (not me) took
that whole website and archived it.
You can see it here, intact, and with no
commercial ads as of the date of this page that you are reading:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070821045808/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3975/
In
the meantime I had started websites in several other locations.
My ISP
(Internet Service Provider) Jps.com, offered webspace and I started "The
Catholic Treasure Chest" in 1998.
It was successful and Jps was a very good
provider and everything ran fine until Jps was gobbled up by Inreach.com and
things ran okay but not the same. Soon Inreach itself was acquired by a
third ISP and things deteriorated fast. Their FTP (File Transfer Protocol) had
problems and I could not upload new pages easily anymore. They knew about the
problem but never bothered to fix it. Consequently I left them in February
2007.
So then it was time for me to acquire my domain name, "The Catholic
Treasure Chest",
and I moved the website into a web hosting
service where it resides today.
But here is a
strange part yet again. My URL while with Inreach was: http://home.inreach.com/~bstanley/
Take a look there
now, years after I left them. What do you see?
Months before I left them I
put up a large sign on the top of the home page that said, "
Well very much to my surprise, my old website that I paid
Inreach for, is still there and intact over three years later. But who is paying
for it now?
And even stranger is that my 'moving to a new site' sign (above)
is missing.
However, when my Geocities site was archived by persons unknown
to me, they also archived the links that were on it. One such link was to my
Inreach site, and much to my surprise it contains the page on which I had
the 'moving to a new site' sign that I mentioned above. You can see that and my
whole Inreach site yet again in this archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070701185925/home.inreach.com/bstanley/
However,
notice on this link that in my sign, the url which did read the address of the
new site had been changed to the address of the old Inreach site that it
was already on.
I can only surmise that whoever changed it wanted to keep the
site in house, but having a sign that pointed to the same url that it was
already on does not make any sense. I can only assume that later on whoever
did it, realized the error also and removed the whole sign.
The "Inreach"
site in both locations is as it was over three years ago. Ever since then I
have had no control over them and I cannot update them.
Well, though not
updated, both locations still make for good backup sites, and so does
my archived "Defenders" website.
Several weeks later...
If all of the
above was not enough, I have found yet another archived copy of "The Catholicc
Treasure Chest" here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011125192121/www.home.inreach.com/bstanley/
So who is really responsible for rescuing two of my websites
which are still alive today,
but in reality should have died years
ago???
©
Written by Bob Stanley, March 18, 2010
Updated March 21,
2010
Updated April 11, 2010
"Have I then become your enemy, because I told you the
truth?"
Galatians 4:16