> > what are the original domains for the original ayashii world websites? are there any archive.org appearances?
> It's not quite what you asked for, but I found this contemporary report
> on Ayashii World's "death" that contains the URL for it's "final
> resting place" (this article's still live, since 1998/9/5!):
> http://ninjin.net/radica/HTML/980905.html
> Unfortunately the only things archived on that URL are some blog-like
> posts regarding Underground culture that went up after Ayashii World
> had already shut down, with only traces of URLs for other parts of the
> site:
> https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/http://webdesign.server.ne.jp/strangeworld/
> It also links to an early post-Shiba refuge board, but the only
> archives available were made a year after the shutdown:
> https://web.archive.org/web/19991012210320/http://abunai.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/minibbs.cgi
> Regarding what you actually asked for - I don't have anything yet
> (well, I might do - read on!), but man it's gonna be tough. Just look
> at how many different providers and variants they burned through!:
> https://geolog.mydns.jp/www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway-Vega/4597/
> (see: しば時代 初期 (Early Shiba era) through to
> 退避電機時代 (Evacuation denki era))
> HOWEVER - I also found this surviving Tripod site, and despite the
> fact it appears to have been hacked at some point in 2003, it seems to
> still contain some of its original content - namely, parody
> posts/poems/songs regarding Shiba and Ayashii World. There's a few
> different pages here, but one in particular caught my attention:
> https://yunasoft.tripod.com/faq/kaeuta.html
> It appears to be a manually archived reply page from a Shiba-era
> Ayashii World! All the URLs seem to be what would have been valid links
> to "http://free.prohosting.com/~_strange/cgi-bin/bbs.cgi", and the
> dates shown line up with the timeline linked above
> (see: 98年 2月21日 ＠プロホス誕生 (1998/02/21 birth of @Prohost))
> It also uses a light teal color scheme (background = #007f7f), which
> KuzuhaScriptPHP refers to in it's config comments as being the
> "classic" color scheme, rather than the dark teal "REBIRTH" color
> scheme that most people are more familiar with (background = #004040)
> That's right - Ayashii World didn't have what we would deem its iconic
> dark teal color scheme until January 1999, months after Shiba had quit!
> Here's some more pages from that site, which also seems to house posts
> archived from prohosting era Ayashii World, but the pages themselves
> appear more hand-crafted than the one linked above:
> https://yunasoft.tripod.com/faq/kaeuta2.html
> https://yunasoft.tripod.com/faq/kaeuta3.html
> https://yunasoft.tripod.com/faq/kaeuta4.html
> https://yunasoft.tripod.com/faq/kaeuta5.html
> https://yunasoft.tripod.com/faq/ccsakura.html
> (I like the "↑UZEEバナー↑" (UZEE banner) beneath the banner on that
> last one)
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Thank you lots for your educational posts!! so smart.. bear my children (´ー｀)
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