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As is Heaven's Gate's website - http://heavensgate.com/ http://heavensgate.com/

xtracto 6y ago
I remember seeing that in the news when I was 16 years old. At that time the Internet was just starting in my country so the news came in a local news broadcasting. It was crazy.
madrox 6y ago
This is actually wild to me. How is it being powered? Did they just pay a hosting provider decades in advance?
- andai 6y ago
  Two members stayed behind. I heard recently they still respond to email. >two group members were briefed about a side mission. They would remain on Earth – the last surviving members – and their job was to maintain the Heaven’s Gate website exactly as it was on the day the last suicides took place. >And for two decades, the lone Gaters have diligently continued their mission, answered queries, paid bills and dealt with problems. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-decades-after-heavens-gate-10158830 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-decades-after-h...
  - jsheard 6y ago
    Yep, at least as of 2016: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aeky35/a-suicide-cults-surviving-members-still-maintain-its-90s-website https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aeky35/a-suicide-cults-su...
  - racl101 6y ago
    They didn't drink the Kool-aid. lol.
    - webmaven 6y ago
      > They didn't drink the Kool-aid. lol. Fun fact: the folks at Jonestown didn't drink Kool-Aid either, it was grape Flavor Aid.
      - anotherman554 6y ago
        Alan Moore wrote a comedy comic where a traumatized Cool-Aid Man is publically accused of involvement at Jonestown and insists on the record in a tell all interview it was the Flavor Aid man who committed the crime.
  - ummwhat 6y ago
    Imagine missing the rapture to do sysadmin and PR. Maybe they are in hell.
IBCNU 6y ago
hot tip!
racl101 6y ago
Yikes.
libraryatnight 6y ago
I know it's partly nostalgia, but something about both of these sites feels more fun to interact with and browse through than almost any modern website I visit. The web used to be so much fun.
- _sbrk 6y ago
  Indeed.
- chrisco255 6y ago
  It's not just nostalgia, the design invites exploration. The web was truly built for surfing back then. Now only The Feed exists.
  - libraryatnight 6y ago
    That's it, exactly.
- spideymans 6y ago
  Navigating these sites feels like exploring a labyrinth. I feel like I can spend an hour on those pages, clicking all the hyperlinks, trying to consume all the content it has to offer
mattlondon 6y ago
Weird thing from the bottom of that page's source code (apart from the black-on-black keyword stuffing that was done a lot at the time): <div id="linkbyme" style="display: none;"><li><a href="http://www.heavensgate.com/img/index.asp?index=bogner-ski-wear-11sa.php">bogner http://www.heavensgate.com/img/index.asp?index=bogner-ski-we... ski wear</a></li></div><script>document.getElementById('linkbyme').style.display='none';</script> Weird.

I remember seeing that in the news when I was 16 years old. At that time the Internet was just starting in my country so the news came in a local news broadcasting. It was crazy.

madrox 6y ago

This is actually wild to me. How is it being powered? Did they just pay a hosting provider decades in advance?

andai 6y ago
Two members stayed behind. I heard recently they still respond to email. >two group members were briefed about a side mission. They would remain on Earth – the last surviving members – and their job was to maintain the Heaven’s Gate website exactly as it was on the day the last suicides took place. >And for two decades, the lone Gaters have diligently continued their mission, answered queries, paid bills and dealt with problems. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-decades-after-heavens-gate-10158830 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/two-decades-after-h...
- jsheard 6y ago
  Yep, at least as of 2016: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aeky35/a-suicide-cults-surviving-members-still-maintain-its-90s-website https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aeky35/a-suicide-cults-su...
- racl101 6y ago
  They didn't drink the Kool-aid. lol.
  - webmaven 6y ago
    > They didn't drink the Kool-aid. lol. Fun fact: the folks at Jonestown didn't drink Kool-Aid either, it was grape Flavor Aid.
    - anotherman554 6y ago
      Alan Moore wrote a comedy comic where a traumatized Cool-Aid Man is publically accused of involvement at Jonestown and insists on the record in a tell all interview it was the Flavor Aid man who committed the crime.
- ummwhat 6y ago
  Imagine missing the rapture to do sysadmin and PR. Maybe they are in hell.

IBCNU 6y ago

hot tip!

racl101 6y ago

Yikes.

libraryatnight 6y ago

I know it's partly nostalgia, but something about both of these sites feels more fun to interact with and browse through than almost any modern website I visit. The web used to be so much fun.

_sbrk 6y ago
Indeed.
chrisco255 6y ago
It's not just nostalgia, the design invites exploration. The web was truly built for surfing back then. Now only The Feed exists.
- libraryatnight 6y ago
  That's it, exactly.
spideymans 6y ago
Navigating these sites feels like exploring a labyrinth. I feel like I can spend an hour on those pages, clicking all the hyperlinks, trying to consume all the content it has to offer

mattlondon 6y ago

Weird thing from the bottom of that page's source code (apart from the black-on-black keyword stuffing that was done a lot at the time): <div id="linkbyme" style="display: none;"><li><a href="http://www.heavensgate.com/img/index.asp?index=bogner-ski-wear-11sa.php">bogner http://www.heavensgate.com/img/index.asp?index=bogner-ski-we... ski wear</a></li></div><script>document.getElementById('linkbyme').style.display='none';</script> Weird.