online.nino.ru was the website of a Nizhny Novgorod firm called "OnLine," which traded in computer equipment and later called itself a systems integrator. The web archive took its first snapshot of the home page on September 30, 2000, and one line of the title survived from it: "WebSite \"OnLine\" Company, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia"[1]. On the same day the site stood in the general rating on Counter.nn.ru with the description "The OnLine company sells computer equipment in N. Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast"[4]. Later versions carried the title "OnLine Company | Nizhny Novgorod | systems integrator" and ended with the signature OOO "OnLine Company," Nizhny Novgorod[3]. The last available snapshot of the home page is dated January 5, 2017[3]; a check made while preparing the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating no longer found the online.nino.ru domain.

What the home page held

Only one home page survived in the archived sample from the site, but it was built as a table of contents for the whole firm. The top menu: "About the company," "Information," "News," "Partners," "Licenses," "Reviews," "Certificates," "Vacancies," "Contacts"[3]. Below it, the lines of business: "Intelligent building" and "Smart home" (with a sample cost estimate), "Communication systems" (local area networks, structured cabling systems, telecommunications), "Security systems" (fire and burglar alarms, video surveillance), "Corporate supply of computer and office equipment," "Software and electronic document management," "Service and technical support," "Design and estimate documentation," "Electrical laboratory services," "Climate control equipment," "Office furniture"[3].

Almost every line of business had its own price list, a list of partners, and two columns of projects — "current" and "completed." The software section listed "1C:Enterprise," Microsoft, consulting, ITS, "Mobile trade," "Corporate information management," and estimating software; the service section listed "Technical support via the hotline" and the status "Microsoft trade partner"[3]. There is no address or phone number in the preserved text: the contact information lived on a separate page that did not make it into the archived sample. The footer ended with the line "suppoted by SWK" — a typo in the word supported that stood on the site for years[3].

The news feed on the home page showed the five most recent entries. The newest was dated November 23, 2011: "Received a Certificate from the Volzhsenergonadzor Training and Production Center." Before it came two certificates from a self-regulatory organization granting admission to construction, reconstruction, and capital repair work — dated January 29 and December 31, 2010. Earlier still, both dated September 30, 2009: "Supply of student furniture to the Sharanga municipal secondary school" and "Supply of office furniture to the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast branch of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation"[3].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

In the general rating of counter.nn.ru on September 30, 2000, "OnLine" held line 216: the counter showed 3,744 hits, the rating value was 6.87, and hits for the current day were zero. The counter's registration number was 911[4]. In the nn.ru directory the site was recorded under a different counter number — 1821 — meaning the counter on the site was replaced within a couple of years[5].

The directory listed "OnLine" in several categories at once. In the branch "Firms (Enterprises) → Computers and Office Equipment → Computer and Office Equipment Trade," on June 18, 2002, it had a rating of 209 and a one-line description: "Computers, network, software, office furniture, finishing materials, labeling"[5]. By November 24, 2003, in the same category, the rating had grown to 369, and the description had become detailed: "Full office equipment: computer hardware and network equipment — sales and service; network projects (LAN, structured cabling); automation of accounting (1C, BEST) and document management (Documentum); supply of office furniture, air conditioners, finishing materials"[6]. The same card also stood in the categories "Other computer services" (rating 224 on July 25, 2002)[7], "Repair and technical maintenance," and "Software → Workstations, accounting and warehouse software, analytics" — in both of the latter, on September 16, 2003, the rating was 288[9][10].

On July 25, 2002, the site also made it into the "Most Popular" summary — a list of resources visitors of the directory clicked through to most often over the month. "OnLine" ranked 62nd there with 204 click-throughs[8]. In the Nizhny Novgorod Internet of the early 2000s, the directory and the hit counter were the main channel through which a firm was found, and for a corporate site of an office-equipment supplier that is a noteworthy result.

How it stopped

Judging by the snapshots, the site froze around the end of 2011: the newest news item on the home page remained dated November 23, 2011. The copy from June 30, 2016[2] and the copy from January 5, 2017[3] show the same menu, the same list of five news items, and the same footer typo. For more than five years the page stood without a single edit: the site had stopped being maintained long before it disappeared.

Then it disappeared too: the domain online.nino.ru does not respond today, and whether the company had another address on the web cannot be said from the available materials. Of seventeen years' presence, what remains is a line in the 2000 rating, a handful of directory entries, and a home page permanently frozen in November 2011.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2000 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2016 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2017 (archive)
  4. web.archive.org — General rating of counter.nn.ru, snapshot of September 30, 2000 (archive)
  5. web.archive.org — nn.ru directory, category "Computer and Office Equipment Trade," snapshot of June 18, 2002 (archive)
  6. web.archive.org — nn.ru directory, category "Computer and Office Equipment Trade," snapshot of November 24, 2003 (archive)
  7. web.archive.org — nn.ru directory, category "Other computer services," snapshot of July 25, 2002 (archive)
  8. web.archive.org — nn.ru directory, "Most Popular" section, snapshot of July 25, 2002 (archive)
  9. web.archive.org — nn.ru directory, category "Repair and technical maintenance," snapshot of September 16, 2003 (archive)
  10. web.archive.org — nn.ru directory, category "Workstations, accounting and warehouse software, analytics," snapshot of September 16, 2003 (archive)