Abstrusegoose.com Is Gone for Good
Probably very quirky. There was this comic ages ago Abstruse Goose, one day, also ages ago, it stopped publishing. The page was just white empty. And the other day, after years of the limbo the domain finally expired.
To all the lost digital content :-(
I used to read abstruse goose back in the day! Along with few other really cool web comics from back in the day - Julia Wertz had one called The Fart Party[0].
Thankfully someone saved snapshot of Abstruse Goose - https://web.archive.org/web/20150417182607/http://abstrusego... !
I loved these comics. I related to a lot of them. My favorite was the comic about sorting Skittles by color. I think you can still find the comics on the internet archive. Anyone have insight to what happened to the author?
Yes, thus is the ephemeral nature of a commercial internet, if the website owner ceases to live, or ceases to do business, eventually their registar fees will end up unpaid, and the site will vanish.
Never rely on anything on the internet being 'forever'.
This has me worried about http://hackles.org/. It's still running, but with no new content since 2004.
Looks like the author himself deleted it: "AGI will not be designed by humans. It will be evolved through relentless evolutionary computational processes designed by humans" (https://web.archive.org/web/20231209033410/https://abstruseg...)
Yeah, noticed it after someone linked a comic at IA. Anyone happen to have a full archive and can share? Could go through IA but expect someone has already done it.
Aw, I loved that site, and have checked it occasionally through the years, hoping for a new comic.
This one is a cool idea: https://web.archive.org/web/20150417192008/http://abstrusego...
Followed by a non-comic one: https://web.archive.org/web/20180118210642/http://abstrusego...
Likewise, was very sad when picturesforsadchildren went offline! Can't believe no archive survived.
deleted feels appropriate. https://web.archive.org/web/20231205151609/https://abstruseg...
Ah sad. Hadn't been an update for ages, but it was very good.
Tell HN:
Reminds me of when the xkcd forum went down - I never registered or commented, but it had threads for every xkcd comic, plus other geek discussions, some of which were quite funny. I spent hours reading them.
And then one day there was a banner speaking of a very serious security breach, the forum was down, and that was it.
Good things don't last. :/
I've downloaded everything few years ago, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ARyzOcvGFZ-TG4gpZOXaAnnz9tE...
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