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<h1>Saudade</h1>
<h2>{ a petz & babyz & oddballz archive }</h2>
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<a href="petz5world/index.html">Petz 5 World</a> /
<a href="wordfire/index.html">Wordfire's Petz</a>
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saudade - (n.) - a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has
been loved and then lost; "the love that remains" -
(<a href="https://other-wordly.tumblr.com/post/27575203057/saudade" target="_blank">x</a>)
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Hello! Welcome to Saudade. This is an archive for petz, babyz, and oddballz sites. The Petz community has
been around a long time, and many sites that were once pillars of the community have been lost.
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091002091450/http://www.minibytepetz.net/Minibyte_Petz/home.html"
target="_blank">Minibyte's archive</a>
once did the job that I am attempting to do now, someday I hope to amass her collection!
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<p>On each page, there is a menu in the top right corner. It looks like this:</p>
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Hover over it to open the menu! The menu will have a link back to this page, the changelog for that
particular site, and the Wayback capture link if applicable.
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<h3>methodology:</h3>
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For each site, I re-create each page by hand. Yes! This is tedious, especially for large sites. There are a
couple of reasons I do this rather than download the site as-is:
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Most sites are rather disorganized, so I shuffle things around to make a bit more sense and to preserve
what's left of my sanity.
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It makes it easier to check broken links and update them, find the Wayback version, or mark them as
broken.
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I would need to go through each page and inject the little menu that links back here & to the changelog
anyway.
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The biggest reason: most of these sites were made 15-20+ years ago, when the internet, HTML, and CSS
were in their infancies. Much of the code is wildly outdated and at risk of being deprecated. I update
the code as much as possible while preserving the style of the site, as a way of "future-proofing". I
want this archive to last as long as possible!
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Sites are not posted here until either the whole site goes down, or noticable chunks start to break.
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Each site has a changelog that can be found by clicking the little floating menu in the top right corner!
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<h3>about the author:</h3>
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Hello! I'm marley, or mar @ epiphany on forums/Discord, or punkfairie various other places. I own Epiphany,
which can be found
<a href="https://fantazzled.com/epiphany/" target="_blank">here</a>.
I've been in the PC on and off for 15+ years, since about the 4th grade or so. This community is the reason
I know how to code! It's a place that's near and dear to my heart.
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I <i>loved</i>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091002091450/http://www.minibytepetz.net/Minibyte_Petz/home.html"
target="_blank">Minibyte's archive</a>
when it was up, and a few years ago when it went down I got to thinking I'd like to make something like
that. I did start it, but lost interest in Petz and ended up deleting all the files when cleaning my hard
drive.
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In Feb of 2022 I was bored and wanted a coding project, and remembered that idea I'd had for a Petz archive.
A few weeks later, I bought punkfairie.net and uploaded the archive of Petz 5 World! That was the first Petz
site I ever remember visiting as a child, and it seemed fitting to make that my first entry to my archive.
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I hope you enjoy your time here, whether you're reminiscing on old friendships or curious what the PC of
yesteryear got up to. ♥
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