It's even worse than it appears.
Sunday December 8, 2019; 7:52 PM EST
Finding MailToTheFuture#
  • I got an email from a longtime reader who wanted to know what became of Mail To The Future. He said he sent an email to himself twenty years ago and would like to read it. #
  • I feel so irresponsible, when you create a site like that you're pretty much obligated to keep it running. But the contents of the database, if I was any good at backups, is on one of those CDs. I will put the time in at some point to try to restore the app. It should be relatively easy to port to Node. And I can easily export the data out of a root file. I still have Frontier running on my modern iMac. I use it all the time. ;-)#
  • BTW, I still have the domain, and put a placeholder page there. And the source code. It's backed up, a little, on archive.org. What I haven't found yet is the all-important data. #

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