Question Recovering old site thread text

Is there a way to get a copy of the text entrys of a topic thread from the old site?
Now I don't know if this has been answered somewhere else, but I would like to get all the text posted to the "Second Floor" thread from the Fan Art sub forum.
I have all the art that I posted, what I would like to get is the response posts that was generated by my art posts.
My idea is to use them to make a hybrid form of fan fic/art that tells a story.
I had planned to do this before the site attack, but had not got around to it.
If anyone can help me on this, it will be appreciated.
Gerry

nitehawk_ltd wrote: Is there a way to get a copy of the text entrys of a topic thread from the old site?
Now I don't know if this has been answered somewhere else, but I would like to get all the text posted to the "Second Floor" thread from the Fan Art sub forum.
I have all the art that I posted, what I would like to get is the response posts that was generated by my art posts.
My idea is to use them to make a hybrid form of fan fic/art that tells a story.
I had planned to do this before the site attack, but had not got around to it.
If anyone can help me on this, it will be appreciated.
Gerry

Well, Google has a few fragments:

www.google.ca/search?q=%22Second+Floor%2...SVqQVoOzNIyzUbuBv7AE

And there might be others that aren't found in that search...

Trying to find in if its been webarchived, and failing...

web.archive.org/cdx?url=crystalhall.org%...ilter=statuscode:200

I guess we'll see if rubberjohn saved it or not. ... Also, Kristin apparently has a whole save of the forums, you might be able to ask her/him about it?

Malady wrote:

nitehawk_ltd wrote: Is there a way to get a copy of the text entrys of a topic thread from the old site?
Now I don't know if this has been answered somewhere else, but I would like to get all the text posted to the "Second Floor" thread from the Fan Art sub forum.
I have all the art that I posted, what I would like to get is the response posts that was generated by my art posts.
My idea is to use them to make a hybrid form of fan fic/art that tells a story.
I had planned to do this before the site attack, but had not got around to it.
If anyone can help me on this, it will be appreciated.
Gerry

Well, Google has a few fragments:

www.google.ca/search?q=%22Second+Floor%2...SVqQVoOzNIyzUbuBv7AE

And there might be others that aren't found in that search...

Trying to find in if its been webarchived, and failing...

web.archive.org/cdx?url=crystalhall.org%...ilter=statuscode:200

I guess we'll see if rubberjohn saved it or not. ... Also, Kristin apparently has a whole save of the forums, you might be able to ask her/him about it?

I've just tried out your Google link Malady and, for me anyway, I just get a number of links to pages offered which when clicked on come up with the 'Page Not Found' graphic.

I'm afraid that I can't help with recreating the thread as the only parts of it I saved were Nitehawk's pictures themselves. I liked the pictures but couldn't be bothered with the text. I suspect that the vast majority of the threads are gone for good as I doubt that very many of us actually bother to save the whole forum threads, at best we may save those sections that interest us. For example I have several graphics saved from both the Campus Maps and the Poe Cottage layouts threads but I don't have the threads themselves.

It is only luck, really, that I have such an extensive archive of the Fan-Fics. When I first started on the internet I was having to pay BY THE MINUTE for my connection so I got into the habit where stories were concerned of saving everything that sounded interesting and only reading it later when I was offline. It still works that way for me so I automatically save stories as they appear and then get around to reading them later.

Sorry I can't be of more help this time.

John.

rubberjohn wrote:

Malady wrote:

nitehawk_ltd wrote: Is there a way to get a copy of the text entrys of a topic thread from the old site?

Well, Google has a few fragments:

www.google.ca/search?q=%22Second+Floor%2...SVqQVoOzNIyzUbuBv7AE

I've just tried out your Google link Malady and, for me anyway, I just get a number of links to pages offered which when clicked on come up with the 'Page Not Found' graphic.

Well, yes... ... The idea was to use those fragments to force Google to give more, like for the first entry.

How do I explain it clearer? ... And then Google starts not showing what it should?

Perhaps someone on these forums has superior Google-Fu and can enlighten us on how to get the most out of Google...



And my Google Link doesn't give the ones that are in Tree format instead of Message..

Looks like the last time the Fan Art section was archived by the Wayback Machine was the year before that thread...

web.archive.org/web/20100922055051/http:...?t=thread&frm_id=15&

And, unfortunately, of the threads that show-up, only the first page of each is there... Beyond that it would depend on if the pictures were still available where they were originally hosted