[HN Gopher] The Nekonomicon - Nekochan.net Archive, Updated
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       The Nekonomicon - Nekochan.net Archive, Updated
        
       Author : ThatGuyRaion
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2026-02-21 16:27 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nekonomicon.irixnet.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nekonomicon.irixnet.org)
        
       | ThatGuyRaion wrote:
       | Greetings HN,
       | 
       | As the current Nekonomicon steward, taking over the project from
       | Elf, I finally added a "new section".
       | 
       | Let me explain
       | 
       | Nekochan.net was a famous SGI site that went down on May 21st
       | 2018. Remember the day like it was yesterday. I got up, went to a
       | restaurant to get some food and people start bombarding me while
       | I'm eating.
       | 
       | Anyways, in 2019 Elf, a user of IRIXNet, decided to grab the
       | forum posts off archive.org and reformat them as the "Nekonomicon
       | Book of Notes"
       | 
       | In 2020 I manually (2104 images!) grabbed the original images and
       | metadata off nekochan's archive.org and put it on Silicon Image.
       | 
       | Well, Silicon Image is getting migrated soon to a new project I
       | built using Laravel. As part of this, I built a static site
       | generator in python to rebuild this into a Nekonomicon book of
       | illustrations. After 2-3 days of rapid prototyping, I got it up
       | and running here:
       | 
       | http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html
       | 
       | The tarball will be updated soon.
       | 
       | Future Nekonomicon updates might include:
       | 
       | 1. Geoman and a few other community members ganked forum backups.
       | I might be able to eventually merge and reconcile, but I suspect
       | that will necessitate AI assistance.
       | 
       | 2. The Nekochan.net blog. Mostly for nostalgia.
       | 
       | Anyways, enjoy the memory lane trip.
        
         | shrubble wrote:
         | Thanks for this! I have an SGI o2 with R5K CPU I need to get
         | going one of these days!
        
           | ThatGuyRaion wrote:
           | Just in time. O2 RAM sticks are probably entering
           | reproduction (but you didnt hear that from me :) )
        
       | basilgohar wrote:
       | I'm glad you explained what it actually is. I clicked just out of
       | curiosity that it must be something different than what it
       | sounded like, being in Hacker News. I'm glad I found out it was
       | related to old Silicon Graphics hardware. :-) I have a fond
       | memory of those beasts of machines.
        
         | ThatGuyRaion wrote:
         | Wanted to ensure it was clear lol.
        
       | Keyframe wrote:
       | As an SGI owner, thanks!
        
         | ThatGuyRaion wrote:
         | It's a labor of love for me.
        
       | sixtyj wrote:
       | https://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/IRIX-Screenshots/Sil...
       | 
       | I have forgot how this interface is awesome. Thanks for the
       | resurrection.
        
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