These pages have lived at http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk (the website we
originally got for free with our rented flat's residential dialup
account) for
twenty years!
The one thing that URL had going for it was stability: I kept
it stubbornly unchanged while Demon Internet went through a
long process of being bought by a company that was then swallowed
by a bigger one, and so on. Then just as the
last fragments were beginning to dissolve away in Vodafone's
stomach acids, the flat's lease fell apart first –
which also meant the end for the Demon account. I don't know
how much longer the ghost URL will continue to exist; it has
somehow managed to reach its vigintenary, but I can't see it
surviving much longer, so please make sure your bookmarks have
been updated to point at http://jbr.me.uk.
Since the change of domain also involved shaving off the old vestigial top‐level directory, some of the pages that once resided up there are now archived in this subdirectory:
- Emmental Residents (flatmates roll‐call)
- Missing: John Mather (an announcement from 1999)
- The Xibalba Network (the LAN and its contents)
One that I've left out is the “Caffeine Users' Personal Preferences Archive”. For many years the flat's shared server lived in the kitchen, which meant we had a good practical reason for having a webpage that documented the ways residents and visitors took their coffee and/or tea; but the Java applet that was included just for the sake of the pun was such a terrible piece of legacy code that I'd rather let that page rest in peace.