ostankino.nnov.ru was the site of Open Joint-Stock Company "Ostankino" from the Bor district of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. The surviving snapshots of the home page are the enterprise's business card: full name, postal address, phone number, floor area, a list of the work it accepted orders for, and a list of clients[1]. At the bottom of the page stood the copyright of the Volga-Vyatka Innovation Center of the Higher School[1]. The earliest snapshot in our sample is dated April 18, 2001, the latest — November 1, 2005.

What the home page showed

The entire substantive content fit on a single page. The header carried the full name — Open Joint-Stock Company "Ostankino", below it the address: 606484, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Bor district, Ostankino post office, and the phone number (259) 2-26-50[1]. A separate line gave a clarification: 23 km from the town of Bor, paved road[1]. The same section listed the site dimensions: total area of the main enterprise — 83,590 sq. m, transshipment base in Bor — 2,037 sq. m[1].

The page related the enterprise's history in a single sentence: JSC "Ostankino" was established in 1993 through the privatization of the Ostankino experimental plant — the production base of the RF Institute of Local Industry[1]. This was followed by a list of the work the enterprise was prepared to accept orders for: manufacture of custom equipment, free-forging products, vacuum cleaner components, machining, plastic products made on thermoplastic automatic molding machines, sawmilling and woodworking[1].

The page closed with a list of clients: OJSC "GAZ", OJSC "Nizhny Novgorod Machine-Building Plant", OJSC "Gorky Metallurgical Plant", OJSC "Bor Glassworks", DOJSC "Volgogaz" — and the qualifier "and others"[1]. There is no price list, no order form, and no email address in the text of the snapshots — the only contact given is the phone number[1].

How the 2003 snapshot differs from the 2001 one

There are two differences. First: in 2001, below the list of clients there was a "Mirror in Moscow" link to the address www.nnov.delo.ru/ostankino[1] — it is no longer present in the 2003 snapshot[2].

Second: in the 2001 snapshot, below the copyright line, extraneous lines in English are inserted into the text — "Ostankino??? I hate TV!!!!!" repeated twice, and two more lines where the same phrase has "My name is r00ter" added to it[1]. From a single snapshot it cannot be said whether this was the page being tampered with by an outside party or a joke by whoever maintained it. These lines are absent from the 2003 snapshot[2]. Otherwise the text of the two snapshots matches word for word[1][2].

A place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site belongs to the layer of factory business-card sites in the nnov.ru domain, made once and left unchanged for years: between the 2001 and 2003 snapshots, neither the phone number, nor the floor area, nor the list of work, nor the list of clients changed[1][2]. The domain entered our survey of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet from the directory listing of the nn.ru catalog, where the enterprise's entry repeated the same list of work.

The site was not prominent. In the samples of the Counter.nn.ru rating that we have preserved, the domain does not appear — only in the directory listing files. Nor is it in the final voting table of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day for 2004[3]. For more on how this cross-section is constructed, see the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating.

How it closed

The site showed no signs of development: over the two years between snapshots, not a single line of text changed, apart from the disappeared link to the Moscow mirror and the vanished extraneous lines. The last snapshot in our sample is dated November 1, 2005; today the domain ostankino.nnov.ru does not respond, and our data contains no information about the site moving to another address. What remains of it is a page of text showing what the former experimental plant in the Bor district offered at the turn of the 2000s: forging, plastic molding, machining and woodworking — and who it named among its clients: the GAZ, Nizhny Novgorod Machine-Building, Gorky Metallurgical, and Bor Glassworks plants[1].

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Voting results of the Day of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet, 2004 (archive)