Randomly got the urge to start searching for these again. Felt like I got tantalizingly close at one point, but wasn't actually. Aaaaaaagh
Any new hints that can be offered to those of us who still want to find these episodes after all these years? I am willing to admit that I do not know how the internet works if that's what it takes to get a clearer hint.
Rym said on some show sometime that there are no links to Beta Geeknights anywhere on the internets that he knows of, so the only way to find it is to guess the URL, and that someone had but they were sworn to secrecy.
Now the second simultaneous quest comes into play: finding out who we have to bribe.
And ScoJo, let us know if it ever comes back to you. Do you at least remember which domain it might have been hosted on? One of Scrym's or a third-party site?
How about you don't do that, Sonic. Because if you did, I'd know it was you. It would be all like "Dammit, Sonic hacked into the server!" And then we would have to yell at you.
ALSO: It was not on a domain we owned. It was one someone else's domain.
Yeah, RIT's hosting is weird. You'd need to know their RIT account username, at which point it would be at: https://people.rit.edu/~[theirusernamehere] And they could very easily block it off. In the class where I learned HTML, a part of the curriculum was making it so certain folders in your directory required an RIT account to login to view them. They could very easily program the whole directory to require one of their accounts with their coding knowledge. So if that's where it is, it may or may not be accessible.
How about you don't do that, Sonic. Because if you did, I'd know it was you. It would be all like "Dammit, Sonic hacked into the server!" And then we would have to yell at you.
ALSO: It was not on a domain we owned. It was one someone else's domain.
C'mon, you ought to know me better than that. :-( First of all, not only do I not posses the skills to do that, but even if I did, it's kinda a dick move.
Apreche and Schezar both yield nothing on wayback machine.
If you were trying that with the RIT thing, that no work. RIT usernames were assigned. They're your initials (including middle name) and a number. Literally the only way we'd know it is if they told us.
Seems it's pretty trivial to find their old RIT IDs (just Googling their full names + "rit" brings them up), but it looks like that may be a dead-end path anyway. Their old school pages are offline, both in the new URL format and the old. The Wayback archives of each offer no clues either. Any audio links on Rym's pages lead to an RIT domain of Scott's, which has nothing relevant on it; and Scott's school pages all forward to (old) apreche.net, which we know is a dead-end.
That said, all things considered, they could still be on an RIT server somewhere; the links just might not be that easy to find. We still don't know. Curiouser and curiouser...
On the plus side of all that, the Wayback Machine did save a copy of Scott's old audio blog, which I was able to download. Will listen to that soon, as I've never heard it before.
If I'm remembering correctly, Scrym mentioned on an episode that they were considering naming the show "Pillow Talk with Rym and Scott" for a time. Has anyone taken that information into account in the search yet?
Sort of, but I doubt you'd find anything of that name in a straight-up search. Mainly I've been keeping in mind that if I find any likely file candidates, it's possible they could be listed under that name or an initialism of that name.
More likely, though, it's going to be called GeekNights, because I think they said the Pillow Talk title was never actually used for anything. The name "GeekNights" goes along with the theme of the show itself (a late night talk show for geeks), which they used in favour of the straight-up pillow talk theme they'd toyed with before.
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Any new hints that can be offered to those of us who still want to find these episodes after all these years? I am willing to admit that I do not know how the internet works if that's what it takes to get a clearer hint.
And ScoJo, let us know if it ever comes back to you.
Alternatively, and definitely illegally, someone could try breaking into their servers and looking for them.
It would be all like "Dammit, Sonic hacked into the server!"
And then we would have to yell at you.
ALSO: It was not on a domain we owned. It was one someone else's domain.
https://people.rit.edu/~[theirusernamehere]
And they could very easily block it off. In the class where I learned HTML, a part of the curriculum was making it so certain folders in your directory required an RIT account to login to view them. They could very easily program the whole directory to require one of their accounts with their coding knowledge.
So if that's where it is, it may or may not be accessible.
First of all, not only do I not posses the skills to do that, but even if I did, it's kinda a dick move.
Also, GeekNights was well after they left RIT, if I remember right.
And wow, really? Who's bright idea was that?
That said, all things considered, they could still be on an RIT server somewhere; the links just might not be that easy to find. We still don't know. Curiouser and curiouser...
On the plus side of all that, the Wayback Machine did save a copy of Scott's old audio blog, which I was able to download. Will listen to that soon, as I've never heard it before.
More likely, though, it's going to be called GeekNights, because I think they said the Pillow Talk title was never actually used for anything. The name "GeekNights" goes along with the theme of the show itself (a late night talk show for geeks), which they used in favour of the straight-up pillow talk theme they'd toyed with before.
I mean, honestly, I care more about the forum than the podcast. It's kinda my default landing page.