A user named RW63 came onto Worlds asking if anybody has seen or knows where to find 'rwworld.world'.
Here is what we have so far.
https://www.angelfire.com/rwsplace/The AngelFire still exists, but it seems to only be the folder with html in it as mentioned by RW63. He mentioned the original location being
https://www.angelfire.com/rwsplace/rwworld.world. He is certain that the filename was
rwworld.world.
Yea I can log into the rwsplace on angelfire but theres nothing there besides html files. Contacted support and they said they couldnt help me
He also has a Gravitron fan page on Tripod, but doesn't seem to have a world at all.
Other pages he mentioned was an rwworld and
wrestling3 AngelFire, only one of which has any archives.
I've looked through oocities.org, an archive of geocities with no luck.
I and RW would appreciate any help on this. We must find this world!
Spoiler: Full Chatlog
[11/09/2022 05:10:52] RW63: I lost my world unfortunately, but alot of the worlds from members I hung around with were archived thankfully
[11/09/2022 05:11:18] killhoney: Shaper is a weird animal haha
[11/09/2022 05:14:02] RW63: If anyone ever runs into rwworld.world in any archives id love to have it back. But as far as the archives Im aware of I havent found it yet.
[11/09/2022 05:15:00] killhoney: there's jett.dacii.net/jett/ and worlio.com/users/
[11/09/2022 05:15:19] killhoney: and I believe smurfy also has an archive? not sure if it's open
[11/09/2022 05:15:50] RW63: yea jett and worlio are the only two im currently aware of
[11/09/2022 05:16:35] killhoney: I'll ask around and if I see you soon I will let you know
[11/09/2022 05:17:01] killhoney: where was yours hosted?
[11/09/2022 05:17:49] RW63: I appreciate that. The last I remember was on angelfire
[11/09/2022 05:18:40] killhoney: oh no... angelfire is so difficult to recover
[11/09/2022 05:18:57] RW63: it was something like http:\\angelfire.com\rwsplace\rwworld.world
[11/09/2022 05:19:05] RW63: but that doesnt work now
[11/09/2022 05:19:33] killhoney: that's helpful
[11/09/2022 05:20:34] killhoney: sent it to some of them and maybe they'll be able to find it
[11/09/2022 05:24:15] RW63: that would be absolutely fantastic, I have been trying to find it for weeks now
[11/09/2022 05:24:51] killhoney: I love researching these things honestly
[11/09/2022 05:24:54] killhoney: I will let you know
[11/09/2022 05:25:27] RW63: thank you
[11/09/2022 05:25:43] killhoney: sure
[11/09/2022 05:27:34] Wirlaburla: Love the Gravitron page.
[11/09/2022 05:27:55] RW63: What? You seen that?
[11/09/2022 05:28:07] Wirlaburla: &|+action>a
[11/09/2022 05:28:14] RW63: hahaha I was like 11 when I made that
[11/09/2022 05:28:14] Wirlaburla: We found it using your name.
[11/09/2022 05:28:29] RW63: Rwwfrock63
[11/09/2022 05:28:46] RW63: That was my original AOL and Worlds username
[11/09/2022 05:28:47] Wirlaburla: It's oddly nostalgic. I've never rode a Gravitron but this page screams the early net.
[11/09/2022 05:28:59] Wirlaburla: Love it.
[11/09/2022 05:29:04] killhoney: yeah!
[11/09/2022 05:29:11] killhoney: and your angelfire site still exists!
[11/09/2022 05:29:29] RW63: You guys are awesome!
[11/09/2022 05:29:40] Wirlaburla: The folder does atleast. The images don't load. I guess server-sider setup changed something about that?
[11/09/2022 05:30:02] killhoney: Probably. The .world file doesn't exist in there now.
[11/09/2022 05:30:17] Wirlaburla: Atleast the location to it. Might've been moved.
[11/09/2022 05:30:23] killhoney: hm
[11/09/2022 05:30:25] Wirlaburla: Or might be case-sensitive.
[11/09/2022 05:31:40] Wirlaburla: Actually yeah, seems like AngelFire is case-sensitive. rwsplace works but RWsplace does not. Time to see if I can randomly guess the cases.
[11/09/2022 05:31:58] killhoney: on it
[11/09/2022 05:32:26] RW63: also wrestling3/rwworld was another angelfire user name
[11/09/2022 05:33:00] killhoney: Greaaaaaaaaaat
[11/09/2022 05:33:23] Wirlaburla: No results for those.
[11/09/2022 05:33:38] RW63: the filename was def rwworld.world though
[11/09/2022 05:34:02] Wirlaburla: Your index page on your AngelFire kinda doxes you.
[11/09/2022 05:34:03] RW63: I havent had any luck yet
[11/09/2022 05:34:56] killhoney: RW were you friends with someone back then? Sometimes other users would store their friends worlds
[11/09/2022 05:34:59] Wirlaburla: If there is anything I love doing, it's trying to find missing worlds.
[11/09/2022 05:35:05] killhoney: s a m e
[11/09/2022 05:35:31] killhoney: many lost worlds have been found while looking for others
[11/09/2022 05:36:04] RW63: Michelene, Jafa33, SirGemini, AngelEyes
[11/09/2022 05:36:14] RW63: Thats all I can think of
[11/09/2022 05:36:27] killhoney: That's perfect
[11/09/2022 05:36:53] RW63: ViperFox maybe?
[11/09/2022 05:37:29] killhoney: Taking notes as we speak
[11/09/2022 05:38:05] killhoney: maybe a silly question but did you upload wrestling pics to yout wrestling3 site?
[11/09/2022 05:38:19] RW63: probably
[11/09/2022 05:38:58] killhoney: do you remember around which year you had that username on the site?
[11/09/2022 05:39:05] killhoney: approximately of course
[11/09/2022 05:39:11] RW63: 2001 / 2002
[11/09/2022 05:39:29] killhoney: seems like there IS an archive of that website! :O
[11/09/2022 05:42:32] RW63: Maybe even up to 2005 or so
[11/09/2022 05:43:00] RW63: Ive searched through archive.org but couldnt find anything
[11/09/2022 05:43:41] Wirlaburla: Don't happen to have the old password to the rwsplace Angelfire to see if anything other than an index page is there, do you?
[11/09/2022 05:43:48] killhoney: Yes! The .world file doesn't seem to be there, but here's the archive so you can check if it's the right one
[11/09/2022 05:43:52] killhoney: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://angelfire.com/wrestling3//*
[11/09/2022 05:43:53] killhoney: &|+action>/http://angelfire.com/wrestling3//
[11/09/2022 05:44:22] killhoney: That's a good idea.
[11/09/2022 05:45:47] Wirlaburla: Might be a chance it's still there but in some folder or something.
[11/09/2022 05:47:27] RW63: Yea I can log into the rwsplace on angelfire but theres nothing there besides html files. Contacted support and they said they couldnt help me
[11/09/2022 05:47:52] Wirlaburla: The search continues.
[11/09/2022 05:47:59] killhoney: Ohhh yeaaah
[11/09/2022 05:50:49] RW63: Cant belive yall found my gravitron site lol, thats old school stuff for sure
[11/09/2022 05:54:57] killhoney: sorry we didn't mean to spook you, it just appears in the search results
[11/09/2022 05:55:49] RW63: no spooking here, just found it funny
[11/09/2022 05:56:40] Wirlaburla: I've hit a dead end. I'm going to make a thread on Worlio about it and hope it'll be found soon. I'll look at another time.
[11/09/2022 05:59:05] killhoney: Yesssss
[11/09/2022 05:59:29] RW63: I appreciate it. I also hit a dead end time and time again with it. Even tried running disk drill on some of my old hard drives
[11/09/2022 06:00:56] RW63: was also on tripod with the same user names if that helps
[11/09/2022 06:01:31] killhoney: Yes, amazing. Sharing all of this with other archivists, maybe we're lucky and someone will be able to help us!
[11/09/2022 06:01:47] RW63: think I had it on my AOL website at one time as well, but cant find that at all
[11/09/2022 06:03:22] killhoney: amazing
[11/09/2022 06:03:27] killhoney: thank you so much!
[11/09/2022 06:03:34] killhoney: looking for these things is very exciting