Right, since I know a lot of folks who were on Pirates@Home back in the day are also here, including many of the project admins, could someone please surf to the Pirates project's old address and tell me what's going on? Is the project coming back? At first glance, it looks more like someone's idea of a joke but if so, why is the Pirates address being redirected?

Anyone with any insights?

[EDIT: For reference, the URL I hit before being redirected was http://pirates.vassar.edu/ , which until today had a placeholder page displayed.]

[Further Edit: Thank you, Ulrich!]

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See over at Einstein Boards: What is Pirates?
Someone registered the DNS-Entry for sentimental reasons and placed a mirror of the original site there ;)

Especially the Einstein screensaver description is found there :D

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Aloha, Uli

Arrrr!
Last thing I wanna be doin’ is messin’ with the minds o’ Pirates.

Raven, yours is not the 1st complaint I’ve received in this regard.
I’ve changed the title on top to ‘Pirates@Home Archive’
Hopefully this will make it more obvious what these pages are.

I’m amazed at the loyalty of Pirates. To be checking for life of this scuttled project is a testiment to how much fun we had there.

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Arrrr!...To be checking for life of this scuttled project is a testiment to how much fun we had there.

Arrrr mate! Yes i miss the fun we had over there. Even the errors and outages were great fun that times :D

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Aloha, Uli

Raven, yours is not the 1st complaint I’ve received in this regard.
I’ve changed the title on top to ‘Pirates@Home Archive’
Hopefully this will make it more obvious what these pages are.

Arrrrr, t'was no complaint, matey, but a faint glimmer of hope at seein' our fine ship set sail again. Good on ye for keepin' the figurehead polished.

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[font='courier,courier new']I signed up three days before Pirates shut down... didn't get a single WU.

I demand someone walk the plank.

[raises Jolly Rodger][/font]

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Arrrr!
Last thing I wanna be doin’ is messin’ with the minds o’ Pirates.



I’m amazed at the loyalty of Pirates. To be checking for life of this scuttled project is a testiment to how much fun we had there.

Arrggg Mate, I think That they scuttled our fine project with many
projects that needed a Pirates touch!

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[font='courier,courier new']I signed up three days before Pirates shut down... didn't get a single WU.

I demand someone walk the plank.

[raises Jolly Rodger][/font]

You were a Johnney come Lately!

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[font='courier,courier new']I demand someone walk the plank.[/font]

You were a Johnney come Lately!

[font='courier,courier new']Whenst ye be a'-walkin, din ferget 'at yir askt fer it... arr.[/font]

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Whenst ye be a'-walkin, din ferget 'at yir askt fer it... arr.

But we be in dry dock NA. He'd only get his shoes wet. And seein' him run t' t' pub with his arms tied be somethin' we've seen before.

[font='courier,courier new']I hope you choke on a pretzel... go 'round ruinin' my mood...[/font]

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