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The Dusty Library

old blogs · lost photostreams · the old homepage

Somewhere past the Evidence Locker there's a room nobody dusts. These are the old sites, dug out of the Wayback Machine, old servers and forgotten photo hosts, and put back on the shelf the way they looked. Mind the cobwebs.

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Card Catalog

pull a card · every number below is a real count from the recovery

NO. I · BLOG2003–2006
PRESERVED

the life and times of shaggyshaw

The blog kept while living through bone cancer: diagnosis, chemo, limb-salvage surgery, the all-clear and the years after.

  • 68 posts · 47 comments
  • November 2003 – May 2006
  • word for word from the original server files
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NO. II · HOMEPAGE2001–2008
RECOVERED

the old homepage, 2000s

The college-era personal site and everything that grew on it: résumé, portfolio, PHP network tools, photo galleries, homepage news and the Gallery photo albums.

  • 49 distinct homepage versions, 2001–2005
  • plus a 2008 homepage from the server
  • Wayback Machine + the original server files
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NO. III · BLOGGER2007–2009
RECOVERED

The Duncan Development

A house-renovation blog for an old house in Paris, Kentucky, in its original Blogger "Minima Black" template.

  • 10 posts · 4 comments
  • May 2007 – June 2009
  • photos restored at full size from Blogger & Picasa
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NO. IV · TUMBLR2010–2016
RECOVERED

shaggyshaw on Tumblr

Photos, videos, text posts and reblogs, kept as they appeared and dressed in the original Paper Walls theme.

  • 307 posts on the shelf · 174 tags
  • December 2010 – July 2016
  • media re-fetched from Tumblr's own servers
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NO. V · FLICKR2010–2012
RECOVERED

shagmasterzero's photostream

The Flickr photostream that shaggyshaw.com/flickr used to point to, including the "polaroids" set and favorites.

  • 73 photos on the shelf
  • uploaded November 2010 – May 2012
  • largest public size of each photo
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NO. VI · PORTFOLIO2004
RE-SHELVED

Portfolio, circa 2004

The portfolio page from the hand-coded years of shaggyshaw.com: research papers and essays, proposals and scripts, network plans and a promise of source code. Moved here from the Evidence Locker at Shaw Manor.

  • 4 research papers & essays · 3 proposals, surveys & scripts
  • 2 Visio / network-planning / PPT entries
  • Wayback Machine snapshot of June 8, 2004
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NO. VII · WEBSITE1999–2001
RECOVERED

Bourbon Bytes, 1999

bourbonbytes.com: “Bourbon County KY’s Local Online Source for Real Estate, Automobiles, etc.”, a local directory for Paris and Bourbon County, built in FrontPage 4.0.

  • 7 pages · 21 Wayback Machine captures
  • November 1999 – March 2001
  • almost all images lost; 1 survived
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NO. VIII · WEBSITE2004–2024
RECOVERED

Shaw Consulting

shawconsulting.net: the website of Shaw Consulting, LLC, a web hosting and IT consulting company in Paris, Kentucky. “If we can’t do it, we know someone who can.”

  • 5 pages + 5 earlier versions
  • 234 Wayback Machine captures · September 2004 – March 2024
  • design images all survived; 2 logos from 2005 lost
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NO. IX · WEBSITE2009–today
RECOVERED

Bourbon Buzz

bourbonbuzz.com: “The Latest Buzz About Bourbon Whiskey.” A bourbon news blog that began in 2009, went quiet behind a placeholder in 2024, and came back to life in 2026. It’s live again →

  • 4 front pages: 2009, 2016, 2023, and the 2024–26 placeholder
  • 29,493 Wayback Machine captures · May 2009 – October 2026
  • the original era, the gap, and the revival
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