Re: [CR] What happened to Satoru Masuda's website?

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:35:00 -0500
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From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR] What happened to Satoru Masuda's website?


At 03:07 PM 24/01/2009 -0800, John T.Pergolizzi wrote:
>
>David Beck wrote:
>" What happened to Satoru Masuda's website?
>
>It seems to be gone. Does anyone have a valid link? "
>
>
>Is this it:
>
>http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~campa/ ?

No, the URL was http://members.aol.com/satorumas/brands/brands.html

Now all you get is a blog page with the message,

"Hometown Has Been Shutdown

Posted on Nov 6th 2008 1:30PM by Kelly Wilson

Dear AOL Hometown user,

We're sorry to inform you that as of Oct. 31, 2008, AOL® Hometown was shut down permanently. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Sincerely,

The AOL Hometown Team"

If you go to http://www.archive.org/index.php and enter the URL in Waybackmachine, you'll get some archived pages with a few bits and pieces, but that's all.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada