mebel-nn.ru is the "Nizhny Novgorod Furniture Portal," a site under the .ru domain zone with a Nizhny Novgorod tie-in in its name and a listing in the nn.ru directory (the /rub/ section)[1]. The earliest snapshot in the web archive is dated February 13, 2002, and the latest recorded in this material is October 5, 2022[1].

What the site looked like

In the 2002 snapshot, the site was a catalog of office and retail furniture with an order basket. The home page was titled "Nizhny Novgorod Furniture Portal" and contained a rubricator: blinds (vertical and horizontal), office furniture (accessories, executive office, metal furniture, workstations of luxury/standard/economy class, tables, chairs and armchairs, cabinets), safes (bookkeeping safes, deposit boxes, card files, cash boxes, shelving units, filing safes), as well as "HR department" and "trade union committee" sections[1]. Among the sample goods on the page was the "Inter" armchair with finish options — black genuine leather, priced at 1,200 rubles — as well as a high-back chair with wooden armrests on a gas-lift cylinder and casters: in imitation leather or fabric for 147 (the source does not specify the unit of price), and in luxury-class genuine leather for 183[1].

According to the home page, the site was built single-handedly by its author and updated with notes in a web-diary style: "14.11.2001 Gave birth to the design in Corel Draw. I like it :)", "15.11.2001 Started converting it to HTML. In Netscape everything falls apart as always. :(", "15.12.2001 hooked up the finish options — now I'll finish the basket — and throw a party!", "25.12.2001 hooked up the basket in the catalog... just need to process the basket... and then I'll definitely throw a party"[1]. The page closed with the signature "Mebel-NN 2001. All rights reserved"[1]. No phone numbers, addresses, or other contact details appear in the surviving text of the snapshot.

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

According to Counter.nn.ru, the surviving sample records a rating of 47.0 for the site[1]; no votes for this site are recorded in the data of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day (DNI-2004) — this indicates an absence of data in the available sample, not zero popularity[1]. The site was found in the nn.ru directory, in the /rub/ section[1]. For more on the counting methodology, see the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating; for the context of the platform as a whole, see the article "Nizhny Novgorod Internet."

How it closed

Between the early 2002 snapshot and the site's subsequent history there is a gap in the material: the next recorded snapshot dates to December 9, 2021, and shows the domain listed for sale, with a fragment of a placeholder page containing service PHP warnings about failed connections to external files (price.php, shop1.php, ads.php, faq.php, descr.php, sale.php, contact.php) from a path that does not exist on the hosting system[2]. According to the census card, no live content has been found on the domain since at least 2015 — the state is described as "parked/empty," and the earlier years of the site's existence (between 2002 and 2015) were not checked in this material[1]. The last domain snapshot recorded in this material is dated October 5, 2022[1]. Where the project moved, if anywhere, is not indicated in the available data.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page (domain-for-sale placeholder), 2021 (archive)