pcpartner.kola-nn.ru was the website of the Nizhny Novgorod representative office of PC Partner ®, hosted on a subdomain of the Nizhny Novgorod computer distributor KoLa Distributions; the contact address was listed as pcpartner@kola-nn.ru[1]. The page itself described itself as "the Nizhny Novgorod website of the official PC Partner ® distributor in Nizhny Novgorod"[1]. The earliest snapshot in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet is dated 16 April 2002, and the latest is dated 1 January 2006[1][2].

What the site looked like and what it offered

In 2002 the homepage was a typical corporate showcase site of its era: the menu included sections "Articles," "News," "Description of motherboards," "Drivers, BIOS updates," a "Questions and Answers" forum, "Where to buy?", "How to become a reseller?" and a chat[1]. The page featured a poll of the day — "Which motherboard is in your computer?" with the options "PCPartner," "I have a brand" and "Never opened the computer" — as well as a newsletter subscription form with Full Name and E-Mail Address fields[1]. According to the homepage, the copyright belonged to "KoLa Distribution ®"[1].

Change of appearance: from PCPartner to KoLa Distributions

By the snapshot dated 1 January 2006, the site had changed its design and title to "KoLa Distributions," while keeping the structure: "Home," "Site Map," "Contacts," "About the Company," "News," "Cooperation," as well as a registration form with a login and password[2]. According to the homepage, KoLa Distributions "is a direct supplier to the Nizhny Novgorod market of a wide range of computer components and peripherals" and had operated since 1998, holding the status of an official reseller of Samsung Electronics, LG, Zyxel, Xerox, Gigabyte, IPPON, EPoX, Epson, Canon, Genius, D-Link and Western Digital[2]. At that point, the news feed was publishing announcements about the New Year holiday work schedule and new stock arrivals — ASUS, Acer and LG laptops, TFT monitors, Sven and Microlab speakers, WD hard drives, Intel and AMD processors, ASUS, EPOX and Gigabyte motherboards, video cards and RAM[2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

According to our data, the site was listed in the nn.ru directory under the "/rub/" section as "Nizhny Novgorod representative office of PCPartner." In the preserved samples of Counter.nn.ru no data on its ranking or traffic can be found; nor is any vote for it recorded in our sample of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day 2004 data. For more on the methodology behind collecting such figures, see the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating.

How it closed

The last snapshot of the site recorded in the web archive is dated 1 January 2006; by that time the resource already effectively belonged to the corporate KoLa Distributions website rather than to a separate PC Partner representative office[2]. There is no information in the materials about the domain being transferred to another address; as of this entry's compilation, the domain pcpartner.kola-nn.ru no longer exists.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2006 (archive)