A small-web preservation experiment
Surviving versions of my personal web presence, preserved as artifacts rather than redesigned as modern pages.
The archive now reaches 1998: a verified Paco.org/The Loudmouth page last updated October 21, 1998 and captured by Alexa/Wayback on January 25, 1999. It also includes original source files from 2000–2001, a verified 2003 Wayback-era predecessor site, the surviving 2005 Flash artifact, and the 2022 Paco.org build. Material is added only when a capture or surviving source can establish what actually existed.
The earliest verified Paco.org era recovered so far. The FrontPage 2.0 page uses a 750-pixel table layout, The Loudmouth masthead, theloudmouth@paco.org, October 1998 satire, period web links, a LinkExchange FastCounter and a Java applet.
Original HTML files surviving in Google Drive include the portfolio pages, an early Paco.org/Francisco Rodriguez home page, a period résumé section, FrontPage rollover markup, ICQ and LinkExchange integrations, and the original directory structure.
The newspaper-and-graphic-design portfolio that preceded the preserved Paco.org eras. A verified Wayback capture shows the black portfolio homepage, editorial-design categories, Score/Buffy newsletter work, Beckett Football Monthly work and travel stories.
A Macromedia Flash 7 movie at its documented 500 × 275 pixel stage size. The original SWF is unchanged; modern browsers play it through Ruffle.
A complete static build from Paco.org’s last public Git commit of 2022, preserving the period typography, colors, avatar, navigation, posts and images.
The verified Paco.org web history now reaches October 1998. The remaining search target is anything earlier than this capture, plus additional 1998–2000 pages and assets that can turn the surviving records into locally browsable historical snapshots.