edna.al.ru — a website of the Nizhny Novgorod firm "Security Technology Center "Edna"", hosted on the free hosting service al.ru; the resource was listed in the nn.ru directory under its categories section[1] and was devoted, according to its own description, to "various aspects of security in the modern world"[1]. The earliest preserved snapshot is dated 19 May 2001[1].

What the site offered

The home page presented the firm as a supplier of security equipment and services: the menu section listed "Television Surveillance Systems", "Access Control Systems", "Security Systems", "Metal Detectors" and "Video Peepholes"[1]. The navigation was typical of sites from the turn of the 2000s and included items such as "news", "about the firm", "our clients", "new projects", "price list" and "our mail"[1]. The home page also published editorial pieces on security topics: a note titled "ARE WE ON FIRE? ARE WE NOT?" about the fire hazard of suspended ceilings in administrative buildings, and a note titled "WHO CAME TO SEE US THEN?", which illustrated the workings of hidden video-recording systems with a reference to James Bond films[1]. At the bottom of the page was a copyright notice reading "2000 © All rights reserved Security Technology Center "Edna"", indicating 2000 as the year the site was created[1]. No telephone numbers, postal addresses, or other contacts of the firm can be made out on the preserved snapshot of the home page — the "our mail" section was merely a menu item with no published address[1].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru directory — a general reference of Nizhny Novgorod region internet resources[1]. No data on its standing in the Counter.nn.ru rating or on its participation in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day vote is recorded in the preserved sample — this means an absence of data in the archive, not a confirmed zero visitors or votes.

How the site closed

Based on the preserved snapshots, the site's substantive life was confined to 2001: both the first and the only web-archive snapshot preserved in detail are dated 19 May 2001 and show the same home page text[1]. The last snapshot in the web archive is dated 20 April 2005[2], but its content has not survived in the available material, and the point at which the site turned into a domain parking page cannot be established from the data available.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Last recorded snapshot, 2005 (archive)