Waldo Archive History(For those that remember)

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:49 am

This whole thread just reminded me of all the topics of appropriate file naming so people could adequetly search through the FTP and just pick out videos.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:16 am

I remember the Waldo archive, I think I uploaded my REALLY old vids on there...good times...

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:52 pm

I used to get alot of classics off Waldo's back in the day (around 2002).

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:31 pm

I remember Hawaii's archive.. and yes that was the original version and then Waldo took it over and it grew from there... And yes, Waldo IS Omar as Doki pointed out (he took it over otherwise it would of been gone...

Whay did it exsists? Well, back then there was no much of an internet or place to actually have people DL AMVs, so Hawaii originally hosted it from his computer.. Most of the videos on there are in mpeg1.

When Omar was at AWA, he asked if the archive had a copy of his archive and indeed it does exactly as you mentioned...

What is the POINT... Well, for one thing, there are videos on there that you can't get on the org or any where else for that matter.. Sadly most people dont care made in the nintys... Kind of say really...

Vlad

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:38 pm

Oh man, good times!

<---old school

Quu · Post by **Quu** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:01 pm

so old school ^_^
(I remember when I screwed up reading your studio name during the screening and you got your garden nickname)

neorose · Post by **neorose** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:21 pm

Kionon wrote:Holy Hell.

It's a Quu.

Damn its Quu he lives

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:18 pm

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:What is the POINT... Well, for one thing, there are videos on there that you can't get on the org or any where else for that matter.. Sadly most people dont care made in the nintys... Kind of say really...

Vlad

I've got a ton of videos from that archive that I later moved to a laptop with zip disks since they were the biggest storage format at the time and downloading them again was a pain since I would have had to connect my laptop to the phone line to download again. However that laptop has since died and I'm still trying to recover the data to get those AMVs back since a lot of them are from creators that don't post or upload to the org since they quit long ago.

Crap, I brought up zip disks and 56k modems. . .I hate technology, it makes you feel older faster.

Quu · Post by **Quu** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:32 pm

well, right now I have the server hosted on a private web server. I am moving all of my quutar.com and otakuvideo.com stuff to this new server, then I will switch the router to export this new server instead of the old.

so the old waldo archive is online right now. I just wanted to nail it's history down a little bit, to provide an introductory page. something to talk about other than just "here is the videos, hurf durf"

outlawed · Post by **outlawed** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:25 am

AMV ML FTW. "Old School" up in this bitch.

To qualify for veteran status you must meet all of the following:

001) Pre-date this site in submitting to the conventions

002) Not give a fuck

003) Love to make AMVs but just too damn busy

004) Paid out the ass for import LDs or had to find someone with import footage

005) Used VCRS for pre-production & post-production

006) Know that AG-1980 was the bomb

007) Bought dub VHS just so you could get a small piece footage for that various video

008) Believed at one time that there were too many Ranma videos and that this problem would never go away

009) Desire to ban weird al songs from conventions

010) What's the password to hawaii?

011) You dowloaded from Mdenny

012) Ability to provide better tech support for a Pinnacle DC10 or DC30 than the Pinnacle support line.

013) You know that Eat it to Grave of the Fireflies was DQ'd for a reason superceding issues of what is considered wrong.

014) Feel it is your duty to tell someone if a video sucks.

015) Thought the Anime Music Video Creators' Webring was neato.

016) You knew that a convention would contain a Brad Demoss entry before the convention even existed.

017) You had to worry about Macrovision at some point.

018) Remember the Beautiful People to Apocalypse Zero (aka Kakugo no Susume before it was released in USA) incident at A-kon.

019) If you used windows you encoded a video with Indeo compression.

020) You remember Kevin Caldwell actually posted occasionally!

021) Believe the old trolling threads were great flamefests and these young whipper snappers and their "contest drama" can't hold a candle to them.

022) Flying Erase Head for life yo.

023) Gerry Hsu

024) People would be in an uproar about the AX contest after it was over and would complain about how it was ran for weeks. Oh wait.... =p

025) Believe Sarah Brightman's Dive CD sales figures would not be possible if the anime Nadia did not exist.

026) amvreview site

027) The request "where can I download premiere 5.5" makes you crack a smile.

FUN LINKS
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Kusoyaro can't get playtime at cons
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/1333

Acen 99 thread
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/586

Gerry Hsu incident
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/1725
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/2019
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/2030

Brad Trolls lolz
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/9503

Hsien the master
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/9808

Old ML Humor
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/amv/message/1343