[game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs

[Andrew Armstrong]

I'll try and follow up this lead on behalf of the SIG, and because it's 
possibly dubious. If I can get a copy of the data that the site hosted, 
it might be useful in some respects (even if it is kept solely offline, 
and unofficial).

Andrew

Stuart Feldhamer wrote:

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> It has been sort of dying for years now.

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> The site owner was someone from Thailand, a female I believe. I know 

> the name but I can't spell it correctly enough to Google search for her...

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> OK, after lots of searching I finally found it on Wikipedia which is 

> the first place I should have looked:

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> Sarinee Achavanuntakul

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> Anyway, as I said, it was pretty much dying and hadn't been updated 

> for years. So I find it unlikely it will get resurrected in the near 

> future.

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> Stuart

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> *From:* game_preservation-bounces at igda.org 

> [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Rachel Donahue

> *Sent:* Friday, February 13, 2009 9:05 AM

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG

> *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] Home of the Underdogs

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> Wow, just wow. A huge loss, indeed. Does anyone know the maintainers 

> -- no chance it will resurrect with a different host?

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> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Alan Au <aau at alum.mit.edu 

> <mailto:aau at alum.mit.edu>> wrote:

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> Hi All -

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> I've mostly been lurking, but I did want to pop my head up to mention 

> that the long-standing abandonware site "Home of the Underdogs" 

> finally succumbed to hosting troubles on Monday (the webhosting 

> company went bankrupt) and is probably gone for good.  The 

> preservation community is that much poorer for it.

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> RIP HotU.

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> - Alan

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> Rachel Donahue

> Graduate Assistant

> Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

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