It's all about the love of the game, not profit.

OW!  I didn'texpect to start such a thread.  I have a significant amount of tool history I have accumulated and wanted to share.  I am against keeping secrets.

Chuck;
You can share your tool history with us, We have lots of knowledgeable people here...
I think Alloy Artifacts was the greatest site, So much information & history.. Amazing work...
Sorry to lose the creator/curator..  but life goes on...

Did I miss something here about AA?

Eddie- The last we have heard was that the owner of AA had some bad things happen to him in life and he has not been active lately.

  I try to share info from time to time .  What I had in mind was to have photo evidence and documents shared in a media like AA as some of it is quite extensive.

Quote from: scottg on September 30, 2012, 01:49:17 PM
The web is terribly large now but still terribly fragile.
Kitty could close down. Hundreds of original animated characters could simply disappear from human knowledge.

People could stop posting cute cat videos to YouTube.

Nah.  Never happen.



I agree with Scott.  The Wayback machine is an attempt, but imperfect; and not always easy to use.  There was stuff on the web I really appreciated, but the person who put it up didn't/couldn't continue to support it, so it's gone damitol.

Libraries are imperfect, too.  Yes, books last forever if not exposed to weather/bookworms/other disasters.  But libraries run out of room and choose to get rid of "nobody read this stuff" books.  When we first moved to this county, the library system had a lot of older (we're here talking early 20th century) "how to" books.  I recall one about house building that contained the immortal line, "A man with a hammer and a (hand) saw can build a house by himself."  Hand most modern youths that kind of toolkit, without a skilsaw, chopsaw, jobsite table saw, etc., and watch 'em faint.  Having that historical perspective was helpful to me, although it also warped me into some prejudice agin modern tools that I've since come to appreciate for what they do.  Still don't like framing nailers.