The site perevod.boom.ru represented in Nizhny Novgorod the products of the company Ectaco (USA) — electronic dictionaries and translators of the Language Teacher series. The resource was listed in the "/rub/" section of the nn.ru directory[1] and was known under the name "Electronic translators \"Ectaco\" in Nizhny Novgorod"[1]. An early snapshot from 2001 directly named the site's owner an official representative of Ectaco Inc and stated that the equipment was sold "in Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod region"[2].

What the site offered

The home page described the Language Teacher® Ectaco line of electronic dictionaries as devices "outwardly resembling an electronic organizer": they translated words and texts, contained learning programs and a speech synthesizer for practicing pronunciation, and also combined the functions of an electronic organizer — a phone book, a calculator, automatic conversion of measurement systems, a clock with alarm and world time, and a game center[2]. As the home page reported, the devices supported English, Russian, Polish, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Greek, and all models carried an "international warranty of 1 year from the date of purchase"[2].

In 2001, ordering a model was suggested by "contacting us by email," and the purchase was to be made "directly in Nizhny Novgorod"[2]. By 2009 the wording on the home page had changed: dictionaries became available "directly through the site with delivery to almost any city in Russia and the CIS countries"[3] — the site stopped positioning itself as a local Nizhny Novgorod point of sale and turned into an online store with delivery across the country. On that same last preserved page a block of third-party links appeared at the bottom — "Directory of online stores," "Japanese cars," "Entertainment portal," "Encyclopedia of making money online," "Mobile phones. Ringtones. Logos," "Video movies on DVD," "Sex shop"[3] — a set of affiliate links typical of the late Runet era, unrelated to the sale of translators.

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

In the Counter.nn.ru sample, the site's recorded rating is 50.0[1]; no votes for it are recorded in our data — this means the absence of a record in the preserved counter sample, not zero traffic[1]. The material contains no data on the site's participation in Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day.

How it closed

The first snapshot of the home page in the web archive is dated April 2, 2001, the last preserved one — July 25, 2009[3]. According to the census record, at the time of checking the domain is not occupied ("no domain")[1]; no information about the site moving to another address was found in the material.

Sources

  1. NN.RU (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2009 (archive)