What happened to startrekhistory.com?

[ZapBrannigan]

Yeah, I keep meaning to archive Chrissy's outstanding transcripts just in case. Do you have those saved?

Yes, I have them all saved as HTML documents, including the TAS episodes. They take up only 3.3 MB altogether.

 

[Indysolo]

@alchemist

You can thank Cash Markman in part for the site being abandoned. He used images they restored in one of his books without asking permission, so they stopped adding stuff to the site because why let someone make a profit for your work?

For Fact Trek we have used several images provided by @alchemist but always with consent, and we always watermark the fuck out of them so other Cash wanna-be's can't use them without attribution to the people whose work restored them.

Wait, Cash wrote a new book?? Or the site has been abandoned since his Cash Grab Trilogy? That can't be right, can it? I thought I visited it more recently. BTW good call on the watermarks.

 

[BillJ]

I thought he was dying of cancer about five or six years ago?

 

[Indysolo]

I thought he was dying of cancer about five or six years ago?

From the initial Kickstarter: "Unfortunately, as Marc was completing the writing, he was diagnosed with advanced, stage-three cancer."

From an unrelated interview with Cash Markman: "Q: Any short term or long term goals?

A: Yeah. Stay in the game. Pay off my house. Get bigger budgets. Beat Jonathan next year at the AVN awards in the category of Best Sex Comedy, and hope that it's with a movie that I intended on being funny! Stay happy. Get more happy. Get more ass. Always be loved by someone. Don't hurt anyone. Don't get cancer. Die in my sleep."

 

[Phaser Two]

Oh, well that's sad. I hope he has recovered.

 

[KlingonCereal]

Starting with my first night on the Internet around 1999, I've been in the habit of saving a copy of anything I find interesting and might want to see again. A particular item, a blog, or a whole special-interest website can be taken down at any time, for any reason.

At this point I've got maybe a half-million things filed away, including a lot of stuff from StarTrekHistory. It's added up to a lot of work over the years, but at times this it feels like I did the right thing.

How does the flash layout translate for offline viewing? Normally I use wayback machine, but because Flash is dead the site does not work. Or did you mean you manually saved the content (I.E. images, articles, etc.)?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

How does the flash layout translate for offline viewing? Normally I use wayback machine, but because Flash is dead the site does not work. Or did you mean you manually saved the content (I.E. images, articles, etc.)?

I saved a lot of stills, not the animations and so on.

 

[Phaser Two]

I saved a lot of stills, not the animations and so on.

Screenshots, for example, seem to work fine. Also, if the dynamic content is important, I'm pretty sure there are ways to recreate it. But for the most part, the static content should be easy to save. I admire your effort to preserve the entire Internet. You're like Mr. Atoz. Minus the clones. (?)

 

[Kor]

Anyone got any suggestions? I guess I could just keep them. Perhaps I'll donate them, but not to a library. I could always include a disclaimer. "Verify anything in here upon which you plan to rely."

As Maurice mentioned earlier, he and Harvey work on Trek fact-checking articles which get published online, so hard copies of the books could be useful to them for reference and debunking.

Kor