Why does nobody talk about old Angelfire sites for vintage recipe collections

Last week I was trying to find my grandma's banana bread recipe and her copy was all stained up. I remembered she used to post stuff on an old Angelfire page back in 1999. The site still works somehow! It had 23 recipes with animated gifs of dancing food and a guestbook that still loads. I copied them all into a doc before the host finally breaks. Has anyone else stumbled across a totally forgotten site that still has useful stuff on it?

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barnes.jamie24d ago

Right click and save the whole page as HTML too, not just copy the text. Those old Angelfire sites have embedded MIDI files and marquee text that can mess up a plain text copy. I learned that the hard way when I lost half of a vintage Jell-O salad recipe collection because the page formatting hid the ingredient list. A lot of those old hosts have archive.org snapshots too, so check if the Wayback Machine has an extra backup of your grandma's page. Have you tried searching for any other lost family recipes on there?

angela_park24d ago

Wait, you lost a whole Jell-O salad recipe collection because of a MIDI file? That is a level of vintage internet horror story I was not ready for today. @barnes.jamie I am genuinely sorry for your loss, but also that is the most 1998 problem I have ever heard. I would be more upset about losing Jell-O recipes than most things on the web, honestly. Those old Angelfire pages were held together with hope and HTML table borders. Glad you figured out the source code trick before all the good recipes were gone for good.