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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:58 am 
 

Anyone know what's up?

http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/af ... ontsr.html


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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:10 am 
 



I only looked at it 3 odd days ago myself.. maybe he is no longer at the uni and they have shut his personal pages down??

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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:11 am 
 

Looked at it yesterday and it was there... maybe there's an upgrade or something.


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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:37 am 
 

I got the idea that Mattias had abandoned the site some time ago.  Perhaps he has not paid the web service for keeping it up any longer.

This might be a nice illustration of both the great usefulness of the web for distributing information....and the dangers of relying on the permanence of a source that is actually quite impermanent.

This is one of the reasons that I have saved photos of game celebrities and Acaeum members from the web...just in case.


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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:47 am 
 

I am guessing that the webpage was probably in his university account while he attended.  Universities usually take a very long time to remove old accounts and often only do a clean up when they retire an old machine.

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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:56 am 
 

I think he was actually either working at the Uni or doing masters/doctor... it has to have been up at least 10 odd years..;)

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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:16 am 
 

beasterbrook wrote:I think he was actually either working at the Uni or doing masters/doctor... it has to have been up at least 10 odd years..;)

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I cut and pasted it to a word document long ago...hopefully many others did the same?

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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:04 am 
 

Unfortunately the last Internet Archive of the site was from Dec. 29 2004.

http://web.archive.org/web/200412290600 ... ontsr.html


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Post Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:26 am 
 

jasonw1239 wrote:Unfortunately the last Internet Archive of the site was from Dec. 29 2004.

http://web.archive.org/web/200412290600 ... ontsr.html


No actually I think that was the last time actually changed it so it is the "current" version of the site...

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Post Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:38 am 
 

Badmike wrote:
I cut and pasted it to a word document long ago...hopefully many others did the same?

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well, i saved the html pages... maybe it could be worth saving them in a section of the acaeum...


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Post Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:52 pm 
 

Yes. I did the same - made a word doc of it. Good source material for the Non-TSR subweb!!! Would be happy to work on that, just got to get this dang PhD out of the way first!

  


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Post Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:22 am 
 

GOOD NEWS!

Though I haven't tried to contact Mathais, he seems to have a website up.

http://www.afterglow2.com/

Last update shows June 18, 2006.




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Post Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:42 am 
 

d20sites wrote:Though I haven't tried to contact Mathais, he seems to have a website up.

http://www.afterglow2.com/

Last update shows June 18, 2006.


This isn't Mattias' website but Ian's who I have seen around for a while either.

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:21 am 
 

- This isn't Mattias' website but Ian's who I have seen around for a while either.[/quote]
http://www.afterglow3.com/ next??

  

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Post Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:08 am 
 

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:http://www.afterglow3.com/ next??


I think the next big site for nonTSR D&D is Tome of Treasures.  The main benefit being that anyone can add stuff to the forums so information and pictures are out immediately instead of relying on a single person to make an update.  Eventually they will all get moved to webpages but the forum idea is nice for building the archive.

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Post Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:53 pm 
 

Mars wrote:
This isn't Mattias' website but Ian's who I have seen around for a while either.

I'm still here lurking. Busy as hell, ditched a wife at Christmas (well she ditched me). Queueing up No. 2 as we speak. And looking longingly at my collection of PDFs and hard copies wishing I had the time to pick up my hobby again. May well stick a stack of my uncommon non-TSR on eBay, but the dollar/pound exchange rate makes selling from the UK pretty bad at the moment.


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Post Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:57 pm 
 

Mars wrote:
I think the next big site for nonTSR D&D is Tome of Treasures.  The main benefit being that anyone can add stuff to the forums so information and pictures are out immediately instead of relying on a single person to make an update.  Eventually they will all get moved to webpages but the forum idea is nice for building the archive.

If you'd like access to modify and upload to afterglow2, I can give it to you. We go back a while and I know how much you prize your non-TSR.
So where's Harami, Killjoy, Johnhuck, the Burnie Bro's, Deadlord, and all them goodfellas? Have we all bugged out? Grodog, you still here I assume? ExTSR?


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Post Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:19 pm 
 

Good to see you, Ian.


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