cad.cek.ru — the website of the computer-aided design (CAD) department of the closed joint-stock company "TsEK", a Nizhny Novgorod company and the official representative of the ADEM CAD/CAM/CAPP system in Nizhny Novgorod[2]. The site was listed in the Counter.nn.ru directory of the The Internet under the "/rub/" category with the description "CAD software, consulting, engineering, CNC machine tools, integrated solutions"[1]. The earliest surviving web-archive snapshot is dated 26 April 2003, and the last one 20 January 2020; the site can thus be traced over a span of about 17 years[1][3].
The beginning: a 2003 test placeholder
The earliest snapshot of the site shows not a finished page but a service message about a switch to a new content management system: "Dear visitors of our site! We are beginning testing of a new content management system for the site; in this connection, please send your ideas and suggestions to webmaster@cek.ru," as the home page reported in April 2003[1]. The same page invited visitors to go "to the old version of the site" via a link to giscad.cek.ru[1].
What the site offered: ADEM and the services of the CAD department
By 2012 the site had developed into an informational page about a single product. The menu included the sections "Home," "Omega Production Programs," "Events," "Articles," "Services," and "Contacts"[2]. The home page presented visitors with "an integrated solution for automating design and process engineering preparation of production based on the ADEM CAD/CAM/CAPP system," explaining that ADEM (Automated Design Engineering Manufacturing) is a Russian system combining tools for designers (CAD), process engineers (CAPP), and programmers of numerically controlled equipment (CAM) — "as the home page reported"[2]. The site's text listed areas of application: three-dimensional and two-dimensional design, preparation of design and process documentation, programming of milling, turning, electrical discharge, and laser CNC equipment, maintenance of document archives, and preparation of data for MES and ERP systems, naming the industries served — aviation, nuclear, aerospace, machine-building, metallurgical, and machine-tool-building[2]. The page separately emphasized the company's status: "TsEK Company is the official representative of the ADEM system in Nizhny Novgorod"[2].
Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet
In the Counter.nn.ru sample, the site's recorded rating figure was 181[1]; visitor votes recorded were 0[1]. The site was the specialized resource of a single Nizhny Novgorod enterprise in the industrial software segment — a narrow niche against the backdrop of the more popular sections of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet of those years.
How the site closed
Between the 2012 and 2020 snapshots, there are no intermediate versions of the page in the surviving data. The last recorded snapshot, dated 20 January 2020, shows not a TsEK page but a standard web-server placeholder: "Apache2 Debian Default Page: It works" — the standard message indicating that an Apache2 web server running under Debian has just been installed and is running, but no site content has yet been placed on it[3]. This may mean that by 2020 the domain cad.cek.ru had stopped pointing to the former CAD department site and had come to be occupied by different, unpopulated hosting; there is no definite information in the material about the transfer or fate of the original site after 2012 — the last web-archive snapshot relating to it by content is dated 2012, and the last snapshot of the domain at all is dated 2020.
Sources
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2012 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Snapshot, 2020 (archive)