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Pro tip: Don't toss that old Web 1.0 astronomy site just yet
Last Tuesday I was cleaning out my bookmarks and almost deleted this 2005 site called "Mars Watch Daily" that hasn't been updated since 2008. But I clicked on their archived Mars rover tracking tool and it actually still shows the exact path of Spirit and Opportunity in a way modern NASA pages don't. Has anyone else found an old space or science site that's still useful for reference work years later?
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jade4713d ago
not exactly space related but i still use this old site called "geology of the moon" from like 1998. its this plain html page with no images just text but it breaks down lunar mare formations better than anything ive found since. the guy who made it was some grad student at arizona state and he never updated it after he graduated. i think about that sometimes how we just throw away knowledge when we redesign things. those old sites werent trying to impress anyone with fancy graphics or interactive maps they just wanted to show you what they found. modern nasa pages have all these animated menus and videos that buffer and half the time the info i need is buried three clicks deep. i ended up bookmarking that mars watch site too after reading your post. we should start a collection of these old science fossils before they disappear completely.
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the_robin13d ago
The guy who made that moon site probably had his student email shut off six months after graduating. All that work just vanished from search results the second his .edu account died. We're losing whole libraries of niche science because nobody thought to host them somewhere permanent.
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