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Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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286 points lachlan_gray | 4 comments | 16 Nov 25 23:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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varenc ◴[17 Nov 25 03:07 UTC] No.45950537[source]▶
Love the old internet feel to the site.

You can see it's been basically unchanged for 25 years! Here's the 2001 snapshot from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010202180000/https://britneysp...

Just keeping any site functional and up for so long is impressive by itself.

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userbinator ◴[17 Nov 25 03:35 UTC] No.45950650[source]▶
It's only impressive if you've become accustomed to the unfortunate trend of forced obsolescence and the desire of many to justify useless recurring "maintenance" busywork. Basic HTML and CSS will always work.
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1. adastra22 ◴[17 Nov 25 04:40 UTC] No.45950889[source]▶
Maintaining a working server over that time is the challenge.
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2. prmoustache ◴[17 Nov 25 06:16 UTC] No.45951227[source]▶
What makes you think the owner of this site maintain a server?

A quick look at the ip show that it is owned by hostgator.com, a web hosting company.

The key here is renting the domain indefinitely and moving to a new web hosting company if one goes bust.

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3. varenc ◴[17 Nov 25 07:04 UTC] No.45951414[source]▶
I think the challenge is also caring enough to keep paying money to host a site for no clear purpose or gain. And moving hosting providers since guessing hostgator didn't exist back then. Based on the modified times on some assets on the site I'd guess it was last moved in Oct 2015. So glad they kept it up!
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4. userbinator ◴[17 Nov 25 20:21 UTC] No.45957819{3}[source]▶
HostGator has been around for a long time too - since 2002.