August 28, 2004

RIP FishCam

Maybe I'm the last to notice, but the Amazing Netscape FishCam appears to be no more. :-( The site is still there, but the last images are dated January 10th this year.

In April 2003, Eric Meyer redesigned the page to use web standards (presumably, it previously looked something like this) but obviously even Eric's super CSS powers weren't enough to save it...

Can anyone who works/worked at Netscape tell me what happened to it? Does Netscape/AOL still even own Building 21?

Posted by gerv at August 28, 2004 10:12 PM
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weird.
i was just looking at that site yesterday and wondering if it would ever be back.
i think it was one of the first web sites i ever visited.

Posted by: GURT at August 29, 2004 1:09 AM

i once mailed someone still working there and he said he will tell her co-worker to fix it, but it didn't seem to happen :/ (was back in Mai i think). The last employees seem to work there http://www.perlmeister.com/rundbrief.archiv/20040826/images/s4.jpg someone from formerly-NSCP knows what building this is?

Posted by: mcsmurf at August 29, 2004 1:18 AM

From what I heard, AOL has left the Quad (bld 20-26) and moved to the three story building across the street (bld 13?) shown in http://www.perlmeister.com/rundbrief.archiv/20040826/images/s4.jpg.

The fishcam has been down for ages, and the fish tank is gone (it was leased).

Posted by: Doron at August 29, 2004 2:14 AM

::tear::

wonder what the world record for longest live feed has ever been...?

Posted by: Joey at August 29, 2004 2:40 AM

The fish task is in the 'grab and go' area of
Building 12, and the fish are still being looked after, but the cameras are not hooked up any more.

Maybe we can get someone to post a snapshot every couple of weeks.

Posted by: Steve Parkinson at August 29, 2004 5:15 PM

I posted some pictures of the fish tank today:

http://cryocone.textamerica.com/

Steve

Posted by: Steve Parkinson at September 8, 2004 3:50 AM

We've got a FishCam running at my site

dragon.clanoxygen.com/fishcam

Ocassionally, the PC running the Cam dies and it's not updated, but otherwise it updates every 15 seconds.

Posted by: Jase at September 21, 2004 8:26 AM