The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated(nekonomicon.irixnet.org)
31 pointsby ThatGuyRaion4 hours ago4 comments
  • ThatGuyRaion4 hours 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

    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.

    • shrubble2 hours ago
      Thanks for this! I have an SGI o2 with R5K CPU I need to get going one of these days!
      • ThatGuyRaion2 hours ago
        Just in time. O2 RAM sticks are probably entering reproduction (but you didnt hear that from me :) )
  • sixtyj19 minutes ago
    https://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/IRIX-Screenshots/Sil...

    I have forgot how this interface is awesome. Thanks for the resurrection.

  • basilgohar3 hours 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.
  • Keyframe3 hours ago
    As an SGI owner, thanks!