kristik-detka.narod.ru was a Nizhny Novgorod home page dedicated, by the site's own description, to "our daughter Kristinochka"[1]. The site was listed in a section of the nn.ru directory[1], and in all surviving snapshots it contained a separate "Nizhny Novgorod" section with information for local parents[1][3].

Content and structure

The earliest snapshot, from 2003, opened with the phrase "This is the home page of Kristinochka, our beloved daughter" and offered the sections "For our beloved daughter", "Our girl", "Early development", "Health room", "Nizhny Novgorod" and "Guestbook"[1]. As the home page put it, "our beauty is growing, developing, learning every day — and this site will grow and develop along with her"[1]. The authors invited visitors to sign the guestbook and promised to answer comments[1]. The site belonged to the "Our Children" webring, with navigation links "List of sites", "Previous", "Next", "Random"[1].

By the 2005 snapshot the menu had expanded: "Home", "Nizhny Novgorod", "My girls", "Nutrition and health", "Early development", "Guestbook", "News", "Feedback"[2]. A "My other resources" section appeared, with links to the "Ultrasound doctor's site" and the "'World of Beauty and Health' site", and the "Our Children" webring was still present[2]. The plural "My girls" in this snapshot may point to the birth of a second child in the author's family, but the material contains no direct confirmation of this — the snapshot only records the change in the section's name[2].

By 2011 the structure had simplified to "Home", "Nizhny Novgorod", "Nutrition and health", "Early development", "Guestbook", "Feedback"; the "My girls" and "News" sections had disappeared from the menu[3]. In place of the ultrasound-doctor resources, links appeared to the "'Aphrodite' site" and to poems for children and parents by Kirill Avdeenko[3]. All three snapshots kept the same epigraph — a quote from R. Kent Hughes on raising children: "Raising children seems to take forever while you are in the middle of it, but when it is over, it seems to have been only a moment"[1][2][3].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru directory (the /rub/ section)[1]. No data on voting at the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day or on this site's standing in the Counter.nn.ru rating is recorded in our samples: this means the absence of information in the collected data, not a confirmed zero result. The site's own Nizhny Novgorod theme — the "Nizhny Novgorod" section aimed at local parents — was present in every known version of the home page and remained a constant feature throughout the project's life[1][2][3].

Closure

The last known snapshot of the home page in the web archive is dated 31 July 2011[3]. The material contains no information about the site being moved to another domain.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2005 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2011 (archive)