Hi r9k, I posted this exact thread yesterday but I'm posting it this ONE last time to try to make sure as many people have seen it as possible:



A while back I downloaded an archive of r9k threads from 2008-2009, this archive included the very first posts on this board on its day of creation - most of which were just attempts to feed the r9k bot copypasta so it couldn't be reposted. The archive does have a lot of longer threads filled with content, though. These archived threads came in an .xml format that wasn't really very readable, and I couldn't find an easy solution online for how to view these.



However this year I discovered ChatGPT, and with ChatGPT's help I was able to get it to create what I called 'r9k offline', a simple .html template using javascript functions that let me easily load the .xmls and display them in a nice and readable format, almost as they would have appeared on 4chan at the time.



I've decided to share this 'r9k offline' thing for anyone who might be interested in reading some old r9k threads from 2008. I doubt that many people are interested, and note that these archives don't contain ANY images, just the text, but it might be a fun hour or two for you if you have nothing else to do. You can't find these on desuarchive, they're older than that.



All you have to do is download this .zip file: https://mega.nz/file/cCpRBALI#Swsf3rkIW9TSIls3WwPCs8sWXLyGT9a_sox5_GJuDeg

holy crap no one click this link it infected my pc with a virus and now i have to type this up from my phone

This package contains exclusively .html files, .css files, some .js files, some images and a single .mp3 file. The package would be significantly smaller but I created a bunch of css style themes and one or two of them ended up using some .gif files inefficiently converted from .webm files. That's why the filesize is as large as it is. There's nothing in here that could be malicious, no .exe files or anything like that. You could inspect these files individually online or locally before opening anything, and you could even copy and paste them into ChatGPT to ask it to analyze the files for malicious content. Or you could simply make sure that you only open this in a browser you've temporarily blocked ("in" and "out") on your firewall. But as I've uploaded it today, I assure you it has nothing malicious in it.



Once you've downloaded it, you just open 'r9k Offline.html' in a browser, click 'Browse' or 'Choose Files', select an .xml file from the 'Largest 200 Threads' folder, and read away! There are more detailed instructions in the 'welcome screen'. There are a few bugs but that's mostly because this is an unfinished project, I think it's a pretty good product considering I never really 'coded' in html except for a brief period two decades ago, and I've never known javascript - all of this is the product of giving ChatGPT verbal instructions.



If you'd like to read more threads, the full archive is available here as a .tar.gz file (you'll need something like 7zip to open this format). I should warn you that it expands out into a massive collection thousands of .xml files, all of them individual threads.



https://mega.nz/file/FLR3iTYA#B5c06Fx3VKObyVtquUVcYGZ_OD3HIKtj4WubhDQqo-Q

oh my gewww NOOOO anon how could you click the link ojhhhhh god what are you going to do!!!!!

>>73144391 (OP)

good try limes good try
