April 25, 2001
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Some of you will undoubtedly remember all those guilicious browser skins that the web services shop Alphanumerica once had bubbling on their burner. Aphrodite. Sullivan. Fruity Gum. But ever since Alphanumerica was swallowed up by the ever so smoothly named CollabNet last summer, full-domain linkrot has squashed all attempts to locate these alternative interface flavors. However, a little bit of digging found that the entire Aphrodite open source user interface project is now being handled and hosted over at MozDev.org. Now that we’ve taken care of that bit of business, the next question to answer is this: why do some people make it so ludicrously hard to locate information about their previous products and services? Does it really involve that much time to insert a couple of dozen server side redirects? I’ve covered this topic before, so I won’t start up yet another rant on the rationale for supporting historical URLs. It’s just so easy to handle this type of content change, it boggles me when I hit a dead end.
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