Traer’s Q website restored

I have done my best Indiana Jones impersonation and plumbed the depths of the Internet Archive to bring back a little bit of the 20th century: Traer’s Quasquicentennial (125th) anniversary website. This set of webpages appears to have eluded multiple computers and Zip disks, but I think about 85% is there.

The complete schedule for the second weekend of August 1998 is there, as is a rundown of associated events in the first half of the year.

What isn’t there is pretty random: A lightened version of the 125th logo used as a background on multiple pages, the big version of the second “Where in Traer” contest, the February calendar image, and a couple little icons from the calendar.

Back in the ’90s we made websites with colored and mottled backgrounds. One of the Q pages, about a traveling replica of the Vietnam Wall, had a black marble background. This image (which is tiled as needed) wasn’t archived, but I was able to find a version by tracking the file name and stumbling upon a really, really Netscape-era Tripod (!!!) site from user “coopiedog”. (It took WORK to make pages like that! We had to churn the code by hand or use steam-powered HTML editors!)

There’s no specific website for the sesquicentennial this year. The town’s website has information, but most everything else is put on a Facebook page.

EDIT: You know what would be really swell? Actually putting a link up there.

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