It happened again, and this time for four days… what a pain. I had already written off the server as a lost cause and was JUST about to spin up a backup thing when a friend told me my site was working again. Just a little bit shocking, but what an amazing surprise.
look up what the X in Xfce stands for this is the funniest shit I've ever seen
Oh my FUCKING GOD
I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find out what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files to non-rewritable media.
So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.
I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny
@Flute I know it’s not really a gallery site, but I do know that bluesky’s API actually allows you to specify timestamps for stuff. I may have messed around with them a bit to make a post from 800 years ago VwV
@Flute I’d love to see it if you go about making it! I know I would definitely add it to my own site if you’d make it public.
(also final update on the original counter, though I don’t want to discourage you from trying to make your own, I think you might be able to get it to work if you use https://images.weserv.nl/?url=cgi.boingdragon.com/count/[your account name]/0.gif&output=gif&n=-1
instead of what you’ve got currently. the end bit there just makes it render a gif, which it doesn’t seem to do automatically xP)
@Flute Yeah… had a peek at it, it sadly seems (from my minimal testing) like it determines unique hits based off of IP addresses, which any proxy would lose. HOWEVER, if you’re willing to put in a little work getting it set up, they DID have downloads for the old C version of the counters! Looking at the code, it’s certainly… “charming,” the entire animation is generated from pixel arrays, and I’m unfamiliar with CGI so I can’t actually vouch that it’s safe to run this on a webserver exposed to the internet. It is an option though, hah…
https://web.archive.org/web/20120302143410/http://boingdragon.com/downloads.html
correction: sadly it’s just one part of two parts needed, you’d just point the actual boingdragon account you made at your own webserver, hah. It DOES still generate images, though you have to figure out what to pass to it, and I feel bad poking through and changing someone else’s work without permission