I’ve been working on a long-term project to reconstruct and preserve early versions of the EVE Online website using the Wayback Machine.
It’s called EVE Lost Data Database, and the goal is to organize historical web data year by year (starting from 2000–2001) into a structured and accessible archive.
Each year includes:
Original HTML files and embedded images
Screenshots of archived pages
A clean chronological structure
Explainer videos covering the content
There is also a complete archive with everything compiled together.
The idea is to preserve a piece of internet history that is currently scattered across different snapshots and not easy to explore.
If you’re into data preservation, old internet, or EVE history, I’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback. Contributions are also welcome.
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I’m eager to see the completed work from this, and I would also love, if possible once it’s all done to preserve a copy as well. Since I try to archive official EVE stuff as much as possible it’d be amazing to add something like this for the safekeeping.
As if we already didn’t have a bunch of useless crap all over the internet wasting space and bandwidth. Completely unnecessary. There’s no ‘‘history’’ there, just a lot of outdated information that nobody needs anymore.
I’m afraid I don’t agree with that mate. I think this old content its very interesting to read and see because i havent found some of the images on the internet, so i think its very interesting to see how the developers thought about the game in the past. Also, there is history in this files, old lore about the game and maybe we can see things the lore doesn’t tell us now, but i respect your opinion and thanks for sharing it.
CCP probably already has preserved anything and everything that is necessary and/or interesting pertaining to the game. They have a pretty conservationist attitude towards this game with the monuments and the blood letting thing coming up at Fanfest, etc. Much more authentic information from them as well, than picking up whatever remnants from who knows where in the forgotten corners of the internet.
Also: it’s not a good form to repeat words when naming something. ‘‘Lost Data Database’’? You can safely drop ‘‘database’’ from it and the meaning will still stand.
As long as they don’t act like other companies that lost their source code, as long as they keep the version control backed up, they can rewind state anytime.
Contrary to the common man plebe thinking, code is the source of the truth, not some html outdated page.
