Restoring the Ames Fan Club Website

108CAM · January 18, 2023, 03:16:43 AM

This topic was originally focused on restoring only the Store Locator element of the Ames Fan Club website but I have decided to change the focus to restoring the entire website after discovering that the Image Gallery was also archived, as were many other parts of the site.

Original Message:
Tried to use the Store Locator today and all it does is bring up an error.
Is there any plans to get it back online? I used to use it all the time but now it won't work.
The error is "Could not execute query:"

108CAM · January 30, 2023, 07:21:30 PM

Another user has found a fully functional Wayback Machine archive of the store locator. This should help with repairing the actual store locator which is currently broken. Repairing the locator will certainly help with bringing the Ames Fan Club back to its former glory.

Here's a link to the Wayback Machine archive of the Store Locator.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160903014459/http://www.amesfanclub.com/store.loc.htm

108CAM · January 31, 2023, 12:01:49 AM

Quote from: 108CAM on January 30, 2023, 07:21:30 PMAnother user has found a fully functional Wayback Machine archive of the store locator. This should help with repairing the actual store locator which is currently broken. Repairing the locator will certainly help with bringing the Ames Fan Club back to its former glory.

Here's a link to the Wayback Machine archive of the Store Locator.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160903014459/http://www.amesfanclub.com/store.loc.htm

I've also discovered that the entire image gallery, all the photo descriptions and the comments were archived alongside the Store Locator. Even the random image displayed on the left of screen still works and changes every time you go to a different page.

It seems that pretty much the entire Ames Fan Club website and ~95% of its content and functionality has been successfully archived on the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive. This has saved nearly 20 years worth of history from being lost forever.

The discovery of these archives has greatly increased the chance of the Ames Fan Club website being restored to it's former glory.