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mcc Aug 1, 2024

Oh my gosh I found myself on an Angelfire page and I discovered that this is currently the Angelfire 404 page https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/index.shtml

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jmelesky Aug 1, 2024

@mcc I worked at Tripod (owned by Lycos) when Lycos also acquired Angelfire. It turned out that the entire site (login, html editor, uploader, everything) was run on a single CGI that was written in C.

The CGI binary was named a.out, which I was told stood for “angelfire.out”.

This is unrelated to your 404 page, but I don’t get many chances to tell this story.

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@jmelesky @mcc Fun fax, Angelfire hasn't changed all that much since the early 2000s, and is a relic of the era of Geocities that hasn't shut itself down. You can actually make a website there, and use all the old school templates. (I did this for a while until I decided it would be cooler to build my own website)