The End of An Era

ByOscar Gonzalez Published on: Updated on: Opinion and Editorial Reading Time: 1 minute

For anybody that's done web 1.0 and web 2.0; for anybody that's an OG of webdevelopment, or hosting you will recognize the significance of this.

network-tools.com is no more.

It appears to have been acquired and rebranded as part of broadbandsearch.net I don't know how I feel about this, but hopefully, the original owners cashed out nicely because the value this site has provided to me for the past 20 years is immeasurable.

I think just in July I did an audit and like most audits, it begun at network-tools.com Today I was surprised and found the domain redirected me and I was greeted with this:

The new look is very clean, but took a few moments to compute in my mind and understand what had happened. I thought "did I type the wrong thing" wait a minute, who are you!?

I tried to go to the Wayback machine to grab a screenshot of the classic look that we grew used to for the past decade, but they had blocked it; I might have a screenshot of my own.

Sneaky, they blocked the whole Internet Archive from archiving them.

Indeed, the end of an era. RIP network-tools.com

Oscar Gonzalez

Oscar Gonzalez is an IT and Web veteran with over 20 years of experience working in marketing, technology, and infrastructure, seeking, designing, and implementing solutions for businesses and individuals.

Similar Posts