R. I. P.
Here you will find a mention of many of the various sites that have been removed from my favorites. This will give me a chance to honor sites that have disappeared, and to rant about sites that have been destroyed, usually by new owners. It also will let you find out what happened to sites you may be looking for.
Weekly Weblog
This site by Distin Savone (Kimberly Munyer) stopped being updated in October
2001, and was removed in February 2002. It presented a new list of unusual
sites each week. I would suspect that Kimberly either passed away or became
very ill. I was in contact with her the last week the site was updated, and
she made no mention of dropping it.
PC Forrest
PC Forrest was a great site that provided information to help you
understand a lot more about your PC and the Internet with
loads of links to get more information. The company that controlled the site
decided to stop, with no reason given. Left the guy who ran the site high
and dry.
AnyWho
AnyWho was the best of the sites to look up phone numbers. After AT&T took
it over it became the worst. It actually requires you to enter the state.
They no longer have a reverse directory. It was the only one to let you
enter just a first name or last name, with no initial. Great for finding
others with an unusual name. But, alas, its not to be anymore.
Mr Showbiz
Not as good as IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base), but Mr Showbiz was a good
place to get information on the entertainment world. The URL still exists,
but it now redirects you to the ABC entertainment page.
Girls On Film
Girls on Film was a website that was run by 4 girls who were film, TV,
and movie critics. I mainly read their film reviews because, unlike
professional movie critics, I agreed with them. I was sorry to see them stop
their project. You can actually still see some of their reviews at
WayBack
Machine. Some of the links are not available.
Net Medic
Net Medic is a cool tool for determining where problems might be in your
online connection. It used to be free, but no longer. I only tell you about
free tools, generally, because that is all I download.
Investorama
Here was a site from which you could enter a stock or fund and then have
links to many financial sites where, once linking to them, you would have
their report on that stock or fund. It made research quite easy.
YIL Forwards
It was my favorite site for humor, from YIL magazine. But they have not
updated the jokes since early July 2002.
Internet Web Guide
They had a new, interesting list of sites every week, broken down by topic.
The company that had this guide published decided to drop it. Oy!
Another good one down the drain.
PC Magazines
Most of the PC magazines are gone - PC Computing, PC Magazine, YIL -
just to name those that I had links to. SmartComputing is now basically just
for magazine subscribers. Seems the only one left
is PC World, which you can find on my Technical page:
Technical
TV Guide Canada
On this site you were able to the TV show cancellations and
those picked up for the next season. Even though it was Canada, it was same
network TV.
Say Yes
Yes used to show you the songs that any radio station had been playing
for the past 6 hours. If you didn't know the name of a song or who
sang it, you could just check it out. A really good service. No more. Now
it just tells you the current song and tries to get you to buy it. What a
waste!
Fred Langa
Fred Langa used to have my favorite newsletter, but he no longer
writes them. You can read his archives
here.
He had combined with Windows Secrets , but then left on a prolonged
vacation. Then he retrurned, and soon afterwards retired. Bye-bye Fred.
Cool Tricks and Trinkets
Cool Tricks and Trinkets has been one of my favorite newsletter for
years. Charles Kessler has decided to stop writing them. His newsletter was a
list of interesting websites. Back in 2000, in one edition, I included this
website in his Subscribers' Sites section. He's keeping his archives online
here.
Gizmo's Tech Support Alert
Gizmo's Tech Support Alert monthly newsletter was loaded with
links to good software and technical advice or tips.
Clif Notes Newsletter
The Middle East Discussion Forum used to be an interesting place.
Unfortunately it was usually overwhelming anti-Israel, but standing for
Israel was Jill Malter, and sometimes others, and it often seemed to be all
against her. But it was a lively banter, and even though I detested the view
of most of these contributors, it was generally an intellectual discussion.
A really good read. But, the administrative work was overwhelming him. So,
like Fred Langa, he joined up with Windows Secrets . He
still writes for them, but only in the paid version, and just one article
twice a month. It's nothing like you used to get in his newsletter. Such a
shame. His was the best of them all.
You can still visit his
site and read all his
old work, even the writings you had to pay for before, and also get his list of
best free software. And he puts out an RSS feed of reviews of free programs
for different tasks.
was another weekly newsletter loaded with
links to good freeware and websites, plus some tips.
Clif gave a
review of each.
He's even provided some that he gave a negative review
and so does not recommend.
The newsletter is really online, and so the
e-mail is just a reminder with a link.
You can still visit his site and
read his archives.
He had been once weekly, then for a few months
it was just once a month, then it stopped. He now writes at another site,
but nothing of interest to me yet. He was the last of the good ones for
me.
Clif