On: New York Underground

[axefrog]

This is a very old article. One of the pages links to this page - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyunderground/docs/myth000... - which suggests using RealPlayer 3.0 and Shockwave 5.0.

[_delirium → axefrog]

The oldest version the Wayback Machine has of it is from 1999, and at that time it had a (c) 1997 in the header: http://web.archive.org/web/19990508090930/http://www.nationa...

Oddly they've taken out the (c) 1997 part, maybe to make it not seem as ancient? I suppose it's still reasonably relevant; not much of this basic information has changed. Heck, Water Tunnel #3 is still under construction.

[Hopka → _delirium]

There's still a copyright notice at the bottom left:

> © 1996- National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.

So is it safe to guess it's from 1996 or later?

[sehrope → axefrog]

I'm pretty sure the audio is RealAudio encoded though can't confirm as I don't have the codec installed (does anyone anymore?). This is just a guess based on the .ram file extension.

Still cool to see how engaging you can make a site using 10-15 year old technology. Content is king.

[kalleboo → sehrope]

The .ram file points to a real media rtsp-precursor streaming server that no longer exists (pnm://real.nationalgeographic.com)

[ilija139 → axefrog]

It's from 1997