Web Site Number 9 was the main archive/center for MSTings in the late 90's/early 2000's. For anyone not in the know, MSTings were basically online text based versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where people would riff on fanfiction/rants/other stuff they found online.
In the spring/early summer of 2003, the site went down temporarily while the servers were moved. That brief move turned out to last over a decade, and for 17 years the site's archives were gone, with the site's admin MIA as well, with no word as to what happened. Most of the MSTings had been posted elsewhere and were easily recoverable, but some were gone forever, and since the community/practice had become centered around the web site the MSTing community completely collapsed.
Fast forward to an hour ago, when, for the fun of it, I decide to google an old email address of mine, just to see if any record of it remained on the web. Surprisingly, I find a link to the .txt file of an old MSTing of mine, something which I probably hadn't laid eyes on in 15 years. This leads me to discover that the old domain for WS#9 is active again, with what appears to be a directory hosting .txt files of all the MStings that were on the site when it went down in 2003.
It's not the whole site, and some of the files are hard to read on modern browsers, but this is just crazy to me. It's been 17 years, and I thought that I would never see some of this again. I don't know if this is a glitch in the matrix, or a planned reboot of the site, but the MSTing community was my first online community, and there was always a sense of emptiness for me with how it all ended. I know that they say you can't go home again, but it seems like in this one fraction of a percentage, I might.
Edit: Oh duh, if anyone else is interested, these are at:
http://www.mistings.org/mistings/---
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