Fonseca's HET site seems to have reappeared:

http://www.hetwebsite.org/het/

(And the character set is readable in FireFox)


On 10/22/2012 6:13 PM, Humberto Barreto wrote:
> I've chased Fonseca's HET site through various moves, but for a while 
> now I've been unable to find it. Yuri Tulupenko asked about it on this 
> list on 6/25/2011 and no one answered, which may mean that no one knew 
> or that no one cared -- silence is hard to interpret. I hope at least 
> some of you find the information below helpful.
>
> As with my previous attempts, I could not find the site anywhere at 
> the New School and clicked many links to the Error 404 graveyard, but 
> this time I found a way to access the site, which you can go to 
> directly here:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20100302181941id_/http://homepage.newschool.edu/~het/ 
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20100302181941id_/http://homepage.newschool.edu/%7Ehet/>
>
> It is in the aptly named Wayback Machine (which, as Wikipedia 
> helpfully proclaims at the very top, "Not to be confused with the 
> WABAC machine of Peabody's Improbable History" -- which I never knew 
> was spelled WABAC  . . . and I apologize to those too young (not a 
> problem with this crowd) and those who never saw Mr. Peabody and his 
> pet boy Sherman or Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale . . . but I 
> digress. :-)).
>
> One key detail: I am using the "id_" to suppress the Wayback code so 
> that the site displays as it did on March 2, 2010, which was the last 
> time it was crawled and archived.
>
> I have tried to contact Fonseca before (he is not a member of this 
> list), but have not received a reply (I'm guessing I had the wrong 
> address). If any of you know him, perhaps you can ask him what's going 
> on with his web site and report back to us. I think the link above is 
> a suitable solution since I believe it will stay at archive.org 
> <http://archive.org> for a while.
>
> BTW, another lost site accessible through the web.archive.org 
> <http://web.archive.org> is this one:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20040210233447/http://www.eh.net/HE/HisEcSoc/
>
> if you've lost a favorite site and know the url, the Wayback Machine 
> seems like a pretty nifty solution . . .  hope that helps.
>
> -- 
> Humberto Barreto
>