tehmon.r52.ru was the site of a Nizhny Novgorod firm, "Tehmontazh - NN," which sold climate-control equipment and serviced it. The domain belonged to the local r52.ru zone, and the firm's own name carried the abbreviation "NN." The copyright notice on the home page is dated 2000[1]; the snapshots in the web archive span the period from July 2001 to June 2002[1][4]. Today it is one of the lost addresses of the early Nizhny Novgorod Internet.

What remains of the site

Four snapshots of the home page survive in the web archive: July 28[1] and August 3, 2001[2], January 26[3] and June 3, 2002[4]. All four match word for word, and the text extractable from them fits in a few lines: no menu, no list of sections, no address or phone number remains in it. The surviving fragment breaks off at a markup service character — meaning what has reached us is the page's service description and the copyright line, not its actual layout. The web archive captured the first two snapshots at the address with the www prefix, and the last two without it.

This fragment is the sum of everything known about the site's content. As the home page stated, the firm "is the official dealer"[1] of five foreign manufacturers: the Japanese DAIKIN, FUJITSU, and TOSHIBA, the Israeli ELECTRA, and the Swedish SYSTEMAIR[1]. The list of brands with their countries is the only substantive line to have outlived the site.

Below the copyright stood the signature "Coding by Info-online"[1] — a credit to whoever prepared the page; the surviving text does not explain who stood behind that name.

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site's belonging to the Nizhny Novgorod internet needs no proof: the r52.ru zone was local by definition, and the address entered our census from the directory listing of the city catalog nn.ru, where the firm's business is described as the sale and servicing of climate-control equipment.

At the same time, the domain tehmon.r52.ru does not appear in the surviving samples of the Counter.nn.ru counter: neither a ranking line nor visit numbers for it are recorded in our data — for more on the coverage of these samples, see the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating. The domain is likewise absent from the final voting table of the 2004 Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day[5], which is understandable: by the time of the contest, the site's last snapshot was almost two and a half years old[4]. Absence from both samples does not mean the site went unnoticed: it means only that no trace of its visitor numbers survives in the sources available to us.

How it closed

The last snapshot in the web archive is dated June 3, 2002[4]. Over the not-quite two years the archive covers, the page did not change at all: the text of the January 2002 snapshot[3] repeats the July 2001 text word for word[1], copyright of 2000 included. The surviving material does not reveal the circumstances of the closure: there is no relocation notice, no provider stub among the snapshots, and no successor address for the domain is recorded in our data.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)
  4. web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)
  5. web.archive.org — Results of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day vote, 2004 (archive)