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Reply #30 - Mar 31st, 2002 at 11:08pm

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I say post it up.  Althouh I have only been going to this site since last summer, This has Simviation has been my main stop for anyth FS and I would really like to see how simviation started out

You can check it out at this link here, Chunkey, if you haven't already (if this is what you're referring to):

http://www.simviation.com/thestrip/flightsimdownload.htm

I, for one, would like to see an expanded Early Simviation Site Archives section linked on the home page.
 
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Reply #31 - Apr 1st, 2002 at 9:58am

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Dare we ask WHAT were you searching for that you got "The Strip" as a 'hit'


LOL!

I was doing a search for Flight Simulator Downloads on AOL Search and I found Simviation on the 3rd page (up to date as well!) and much later on there was thing called "The Strip", but the web adress was something like www.simviation.com/thestrip/fsdownloads.htm, so I entered and I found lots of FS98 downloads and was a bit shocked at that!
 
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Reply #32 - Apr 1st, 2002 at 10:56am

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LOL!

I was doing a search for Flight Simulator Downloads on AOL Search and I found Simviation on the 3rd page (up to date as well!) and much later on there was thing called "The Strip", but the web adress was something like www.simviation.com/thestrip/fsdownloads.htm, so I entered and I found lots of FS98 downloads and was a bit shocked at that!

Somehow I got from the 1999 homepage in the earlier post above to a spiffy looking 2000 homepage.  I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone (the "zone between the zone between the zone...." Wink)  

I couldn't reproduce that later, but a simple search for simviation.com at www.archive.org came up with a neat chart of 40 simviation homepages grouped by year.  It included 3 from 1999 & 2 from 2000--oops--I meant 2 from 2002.  (I suppose most of you did this earlier when this topic was fresh, not to say that it's stale now Smiley)

All those pages have a copyright by Simviation notice at the bottom.  Now www.archive.org says it has them copyrighted ???.  Not being a Philadelphia lawyer, I don't understand this.  Can anybody tell me what's going on here ??? ?
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Reply #33 - Apr 1st, 2002 at 12:37pm

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Not that it really matters because we are going this way >>>>, not <<<<<, but it would be interesting to watch archive.org try to claim an infringement of copyright by a site/domain owner!
You simply cannot claim copyright on already copyrighted material.
Like I say - it's not an issue in simviation's case - but I can imagine archive.org is also claiming copyright on news sites' moments of history!! Or maybe it isn't......
 
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Reply #34 - Apr 1st, 2002 at 2:48pm

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I'm wondering why someone has mentioned this yet and why they have'nt been busted for copyright infringment long ago Roll Eyes .  Oh I also found this little tidbit there about getting a page removed from their archive.


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How do I remove my site from the Archive?

To remove your site from the archive, see the instructions on removing documents at http://www.archive.org/internet/remove.html. Stopping robots from collecting the pages on a site leads to the removal of the pages from the existing collection.




 
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Reply #35 - Apr 1st, 2002 at 4:45pm

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I'm wondering why someone has mentioned this yet and why they have'nt been busted for copyright infringment long ago Roll Eyes .  Oh I also found this little tidbit there about getting a page removed from their archive.

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How do I remove my site from the Archive?

To remove your site from the archive, see the instructions on removing documents at http://www.archive.org/internet/remove.html. Stopping robots from collecting the pages on a site leads to the removal of the pages from the existing collection. 


Somebody may have just done this (name possibly starting with a "P" Wink), because when I search there now for Simviation.com, it says it hasn't been archived.
 
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Reply #36 - Apr 4th, 2002 at 4:21pm

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Too late I saved all of those old pages  8)
 
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Reply #37 - Apr 13th, 2002 at 2:59pm

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It is a tribute to all the hard work Pete, Grumpy and others have put into this site.  I had no idea what I was getting myself into after I purchased FS2k2 and found Simviation.com.  I know I've been a pain in the side at times, but I certainly appreciate all the help!  Grumpy you are extremely gracious and generous for all your responses and help you've provided for me and many, many others.    I have learned so much about my computer, files, configurations, etc,. Just reading the forum responses.     Thanks  Tim.
 
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Reply #38 - Apr 14th, 2002 at 9:49am

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Somebody may have just done this (name possibly starting with a "P" ), because when I search there now for Simviation.com, it says it hasn't been archived.


Not guilty..... why would I do that???

if this is true it's just yet another example of how some birdbrain (& there are plenty of them in every hobby including FS) see it fit to act against this site.
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Reply #39 - Apr 16th, 2002 at 8:14pm

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Not guilty..... why would I do that???

if this is true it's just yet another example of how some birdbrain (& there are plenty of them in every hobby including FS) see it fit to act against this site.
8)

Now that you mention it, I guess it wouldn't make any sense to remove the pages from the archive site, since there's no possibility of a fight over copyrights. ???  I just mentioned it before because they seemed to disappear just as we were discussing it on this topic.  

I see now they're back again; that is, when I go to http://www.archive.org and type in "simviation.com," I get a neat chart of Simviation web pages laid out by year.  Maybe they never were gone and some kind of glitch kept me from finding them.  (I double checked my spelling, etc., and couldn't find anything wrong.  There is an "archive.com" site, but I'm sure I didn't go there.)  

Anyway, I'm glad they're there--it's nice to be able to browse the old pages and see how the site developed Cheesy.
 
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Reply #40 - Apr 26th, 2002 at 11:51am

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www.archive.org gets many hits a day and sometimes their archive fails to work.  That is why you couldn't find simviations backed up pages.
 
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Reply #41 - Apr 26th, 2002 at 12:16pm

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www.archive.org gets many hits a day and sometimes their archive fails to work.  That is why you couldn't find simviations backed up pages.

I thoght it might be something like that.
 
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Reply #42 - May 9th, 2002 at 4:15am
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`What happened to your spell checker Doug  -  "thoght"
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Reply #43 - May 9th, 2002 at 10:46am

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`What happened to your spell checker Doug  -  "thoght"
- tsk tsk

bazza

I don't use one, Bazza, but I usually read over my posts, so I'm sure you'll catch me in miss steaks from time to time Wink.  Actually, I think I saw that one right after it was posted, and I thought to myself (who on earth else would I think to?), "Maybe I'm not really that anal-retentive, maybe I'll just let that one go like the big boys do."  I see now that that was a mistake Embarrassed.
It seams seems like a little trouble to me to type my posts into a word processor, spell-check 'em, then paste them into the forum reply screen, but maybe not.  I'm thinking about giving it a try.  Also I'm thinking about downloading Fozzer's "spellwrite" program. 

Keep up the vigilance Wink,
Doug
 
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Reply #44 - May 16th, 2002 at 2:36pm

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god Cry it really seems as if i'm the new boy here after what all you lot are saying.
anyway i found simviation by accident after a friend had introduced me to flightsim.com i was using combatfs.com for my downloads intill they closed that setion down Cry i was gutted and desperately needed a new download site. that is when last year i stumbled blindly upon simviation and ever since have stayed. came to the forums in febuary this year and really havnt left Wink
 
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