doubleproject.narod.ru was the official website of the Nizhny Novgorod music duo Double Project, which ran on the free Narod.Ru hosting service from 2001 to 2022[1][2]. The site was listed in the nn.ru directory of Nizhny Novgorod resources (the /rub/ section) with the description "Stories, news, mp3 archives, photographs of Nizhny Novgorod bands"[1].

What the site looked like and what it offered

The earliest preserved snapshot, dated 6 March 2001, opened with the heading "Double Project Studio" and a greeting to the visitor: "Good time of day! You have somehow found your way to the website of the Nizhny Novgorod band Double Project"[1]. According to the home page, the authors posted their own compositions on the "mp3 archive" page — five were available at the time of the snapshot — and invited other little-known bands and performers to collaborate, offering a mutual exchange of links[1]. A separate "Lyrics" section was devoted to the poems of "a good friend — Dmitry Korotin," while the "Projects" section introduced other musicians[1]. The page ended with the signature "(c) Double Project 2001"[1].

By the snapshot of 30 March 2022, the site had been renamed "Double Project Musix Studio" and, according to the home page, was "undergoing a global overhaul"[2]. The set of sections had expanded: e-mail, band history, photo album, discography, lyrics, projects, a guestbook with the option to "add an entry," a chat, links, as well as a "Showbiz News" block and a subscription to the studio's news via the Subscribe.Ru mailing service[2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was known to the local nn.ru directory, where it was listed under the name "Official website of the duo Double Project"[1]. It does not appear in the preserved counter samples, and no votes for it are recorded in our data[1] — the available materials do not allow any judgment about the site's traffic or its place in the Counter.nn.ru ranking.

How it closed

The material contains no precise information about the reasons or circumstances of the site's closure. The web-archive snapshot of its home page, capturing the site still working with text about an ongoing "overhaul," is dated 30 March 2022[2]. According to the web archive, the last recorded snapshot of the domain dates to 7 October 2022, but its content and any information about a move to another domain have not been preserved in the material.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2022 (archive)