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The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated

61 points by ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago

ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
Greetings HN, As the current Nekonomicon steward, taking over the project from Elf, I finally added a "new section". Let me explain Nekochan.net was a famous SGI site that went down on May 21st 2018. Remember the day like it was yesterday. I got up, went to a restaurant to get some food and people start bombarding me while I'm eating. Anyways, in 2019 Elf, a user of IRIXNet, decided to grab the forum posts off archive.org and reformat them as the "Nekonomicon Book of Notes" In 2020 I manually (2104 images!) grabbed the original images and metadata off nekochan's archive.org and put it on Silicon Image. Well, Silicon Image is getting migrated soon to a new project I built using Laravel. As part of this, I built a static site generator in python to rebuild this into a Nekonomicon book of illustrations. After 2-3 days of rapid prototyping, I got it up and running here: http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html The tarball will be updated soon. Future Nekonomicon updates might include: 1. Geoman and a few other community members ganked forum backups. I might be able to eventually merge and reconcile, but I suspect that will necessitate AI assistance. 2. The Nekochan.net blog. Mostly for nostalgia. Anyways, enjoy the memory lane trip.
- shrubble 7mo ago
  Thanks for this! I have an SGI o2 with R5K CPU I need to get going one of these days!
  - ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
    Just in time. O2 RAM sticks are probably entering reproduction (but you didnt hear that from me :) )
basilgohar 7mo ago
I'm glad you explained what it actually is. I clicked just out of curiosity that it must be something different than what it sounded like, being in Hacker News. I'm glad I found out it was related to old Silicon Graphics hardware. :-) I have a fond memory of those beasts of machines.
- ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
  Wanted to ensure it was clear lol.
Keyframe 7mo ago
As an SGI owner, thanks!
- ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
  It's a labor of love for me.
  - Keyframe 7mo ago
    A love we all share!
sixtyj 7mo ago
https://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/IRIX-Screenshots/SiliconClassics/ https://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/IRIX-Screenshots/Sil... I have forgot how this interface is awesome. Thanks for the resurrection.
- ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
  You're welcome :)

61 points by ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago

Greetings HN, As the current Nekonomicon steward, taking over the project from Elf, I finally added a "new section". Let me explain Nekochan.net was a famous SGI site that went down on May 21st 2018. Remember the day like it was yesterday. I got up, went to a restaurant to get some food and people start bombarding me while I'm eating. Anyways, in 2019 Elf, a user of IRIXNet, decided to grab the forum posts off archive.org and reformat them as the "Nekonomicon Book of Notes" In 2020 I manually (2104 images!) grabbed the original images and metadata off nekochan's archive.org and put it on Silicon Image. Well, Silicon Image is getting migrated soon to a new project I built using Laravel. As part of this, I built a static site generator in python to rebuild this into a Nekonomicon book of illustrations. After 2-3 days of rapid prototyping, I got it up and running here: http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html The tarball will be updated soon. Future Nekonomicon updates might include: 1. Geoman and a few other community members ganked forum backups. I might be able to eventually merge and reconcile, but I suspect that will necessitate AI assistance. 2. The Nekochan.net blog. Mostly for nostalgia. Anyways, enjoy the memory lane trip.

shrubble 7mo ago
Thanks for this! I have an SGI o2 with R5K CPU I need to get going one of these days!
- ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
  Just in time. O2 RAM sticks are probably entering reproduction (but you didnt hear that from me :) )

basilgohar 7mo ago

I'm glad you explained what it actually is. I clicked just out of curiosity that it must be something different than what it sounded like, being in Hacker News. I'm glad I found out it was related to old Silicon Graphics hardware. :-) I have a fond memory of those beasts of machines.

ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
Wanted to ensure it was clear lol.

Keyframe 7mo ago

As an SGI owner, thanks!

ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
It's a labor of love for me.
- Keyframe 7mo ago
  A love we all share!

sixtyj 7mo ago

https://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/IRIX-Screenshots/SiliconClassics/ https://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/IRIX-Screenshots/Sil... I have forgot how this interface is awesome. Thanks for the resurrection.

ThatGuyRaion 7mo ago
You're welcome :)