The long-running Japanese software portal vector.co.jp is ending their hp.vector homepage service and deleting all hosted sites on December 20—this service hosts a ton of turn-of-the-millennium doujin and homebrew pages, including a lot of pasocom-relevant material for PC98, MSX, etc by many authors who never moved and/or went MIA and aren't going to back up their pages of their own accord, so if there's anything you want to save, don't sleep on it. (IIRC they never expanded their 5MB hosting cap, so we're not talking unwieldy levels of data.)
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linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.
since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!
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in reply to @gosokkyu's post:
Is there any way to browse all the pages they're hosting to search for anything worth preserving?
Turns out that as of at least 2016, Vector published a list of all homepages that existed. (There were around 5000.) So you can visit the full list of homepages manually, and there are also a couple attempts to archive the full set of pages before they go down. Given the very reasonable size of all of this, I think 100% is going to get backed up.
i feel a hole in my heart grow every time i hear about old web content disappearing ;-;