Free Web Migration Platform

[golfsierra2]

The World Wide Web is available since about 20 years, and has seen a lot of web sites coming and going.

Innummerous web pages with a very wide range of topics have been created by many many people since then. Countless hours of manpower were necessary to do so, but none of the very first web pages have survided , not as far as I know. And, sadly enough, a lot of the effort, time and money spent to create that web content is now lost, because the web sites have gone offline and vanished.

 

The Lock-On community for example has seen lockonskins.co.uk and Teka Teka's web site come and go, but they are lost now. Wouldn't it be nice to still have access to their content ?

 

You may agree with me, that many of the webpages already vanished probably were not worth to maintain them, and a big chunk of all the webpages has been preserved by such great achievements like the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) or the initiative to save the GeoCities web content started by Jason Scott's Archive Team [http://www.archiveteam.org/).

 

The concept of the web migration platform even goes one step further:

Instead of archiving web content, it would be a straight forward approach to find new web hosts for web sites, that can no longer be maintained by their owner / creators due to various reasons (e.g. financial), or those owners are not willing to maintain their web sites any longer because they have lost interest in what they were providing. By this, web sites can migrate and live on instead of beeing archived as a dead piece of information.

 

This could apply for example to squadron web sites with their valuable download sections.

 

So I came up with the idea of announcing web sites / web content to the public, so that others willing to share available web hosting capacities can keep that web content online and by that available to the world wide community of web users.

 

The web site "adopt-a-web.org" is maintained as a non-profit, non-commercial project, ad free.

Please contribute to this idea by offering your available web space.

 

Thank you !

http://adopt-a-web.org

Edited January 9, 2010 by golfsierra2