black-boy.narod.ru was a personal website of a Nizhny Novgorod user, operating under the pseudonym BLACK on the free host "Narod.Ru" and known as "Site of Black"[1]. In the nn.ru directory the site was described as a platform with its own poetry, a forum, computer game news, and, among other things, news of the "Nizhny Novgorod chatroom" — and it is this detail that ties the resource to the Nizhny Novgorod The Internet[2].

Sections and content

According to the nn.ru directory, the site featured its own poetry, a forum, computer game news, news of the "Nizhny Novgorod chatroom", fiction (Vasily Golovachyov was mentioned) and Hypnosis, and, as a separate topic, "how to win over a woman"[2]. A snapshot of the home page from June 13, 2003 confirms and details this set: the menu included the items "Home", "Photo gallery", "A little about myself", "News", "My own poetry", "Game arcade", "Guest book", "Chat", "Forum", "Books" and "Guides on psychology, hypnosis, and... How to win over a woman"[1]. The "Site's friends" block listed one partner named Agafon, with two adjacent slots left unfilled — under the captions "here", "could be" and "OR YOUR AD"[1].

The news feed on the same snapshot records the 2001 update history: on July 18 the "Books" and "Guides" sections appeared, on July 16 the computer game news was updated and a guest book, a "poor excuse for a chat" and a forum were set up, while on July 10 the author thanked one DENWER for help with the page layout and published material on the games "Protivostoyanie 3" and "Voyaka. Air Tactics"[1]. The page was signed "Copyright by BLACK © 2001"[1].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

According to the nn.ru directory, the site's rating in the Counter.nn.ru system was 1.62[2]; no votes cast for it as part of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day are recorded in the surviving data[2]. The site was listed in the "/rub/" section of the nn.ru directory[2] — one of the reference guides of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet of that era.

Closure of the site

The nn.ru directory marks the site as "dead"[2]; its entry in the directory covers the period from March 6, 2002 to May 15, 2006[2]. At the same time, the last surviving snapshot of the home page in the web archive is dated June 13, 2003[1] — no later versions of the site are found in the available material. No data on the site being moved to another address appears in the material.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
  2. black-boy.narod.ru