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You could try my site for Pinball Expo 1994.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/expo/

Did it by hand with MS Notepad, MS Paint, Apple QuickTake 100 camera, Chameleon TCP/IP, and Mosaic for PC.

I did, however, drop the webmaster email address about 20 years ago.

As a student at liu who had no prior knowledge about lysator it's always interesting to see lysator links in the wild, they seem to pop up when least expected.

How come the site is hosted at lysator and how come it's still up?

Sidenote: The man hosting the site has a very on-topic profile page[0].

[0] https://www.ida.liu.se/~davby02/

David was a pinball fan like myself and couldn't attend the expo in Chicago that year.

I was commiserating on Usenet about not being able to find affordable hosting for the website. This was way before hosting-only companies were available or even Geocities. David stepped up and generously offered room on Lysator.

As to why it's still up, I'm not sure. There was a short period where it looked like it was offline, but it's back now. Perhaps because Expo '94 is on a lot of "oldest websites that still work" lists.

Lysator is incredibly nostalgic for me; when I was just starting on the internet around 1994-1995, a lot of my favorite websites were on lysator, including the gigantic Wheel of Time Index.

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