MSN TV
MSN TV | |
Get in your comfort zone | |
URL | http://www.msntv.com/ |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | Unknown |
Project tracker | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam (on hackint) |
MSN TV, formerly known as WebTV, is a bundled thin client and online service which is closing on September 30, 2013. Microsoft offers a bunch of migration options for MSN TV users, though it does not appear that an easy transition route will be offered for home pages. Many of these date back to the early 2000s, and all will be lost.
Closure notice
- Service Closure Announcement
- The MSN TV service will be closing on September 30, 2013. If you are an MSN TV subscriber, click here to read the Closure FAQ for details on what you should do before the service ends. You will also receive an email and letter providing more information.
Initial exploration
URLs of MSN TV web pages take the form of either community.webtv.net
, or community-X.webtv.net
where X is a number from 1 to 4.
Sometimes random junk gets added into the start of the path part of the URL, in the form of /@HH!XX!XX!XXXXXXXXXXXX/
for example, http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!17!BF!62DA2CCF370F/TvFoutreach/COUNTDOWNTO666/ which is the same as http://community-2.webtv.net/TvFoutreach/COUNTDOWNTO666/. This will have to be sed'd out to remove duplicates.
Sometimes @Lookup will appear in the same place in the URL. This, too, will need to be sed'd out.
- List of WebTV community sites, scraped from Wikimedia wikis
- List of URLs from a 2009-ish dump of the Open Directory Project, some may no longer work
- List of URLs scraped from a Twitter search. Original URLs before filtering
- List of URLS from Bing API searches on site:webtv.net (12,000+). Older version of this list.
Other stuff:
- *.webtv.net DNS names, might be for internal use, may or may not be anything public-facing here