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Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

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Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#22

That's a really sad news. He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet. He last commented 27 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MarkPilgrim [I loved his blog and I wish someone has archive for it. I did not archive it locally because Mark used to write articles about long term archival of his data and I didn't think he would ever delete all his public writings.]

A July snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20110718034434/http://diveintomar.... The newer ones may be able to be retrieved through Google cache.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The domain for that site is owned by a Chinese university, and the IP address of the server it's hosted on looks like a shared server (there's over 200 sites hosted on that IP). I doubt Mark has anything to do with hosting that site.

Out of sheer curiosity - how do you tell how many sites (and which ones) are hosted on a shared server?

try http://whois.webhosting.info/

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#25

That's a really sad news. He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet. He last commented 27 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MarkPilgrim [I loved his blog and I wish someone has archive for it. I did not archive it locally because Mark used to write articles about long term archival of his data and I didn't think he would ever delete all his public writings.]

He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet.

I don't believe you can delete an HN account.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#26

> Is Mark Pilgrim pulling a disappearing act? Shouldn't we respect his wishes? If he wants to pull the plug on his online identity, he should be allowed to do so without HN sending out an internet search squad.

People are worried he might be suicidal and are concerned for him. It is a fairly unusual act for someone with such a strong Internet presence to delete it; I would think it is a warning sign, like giving away all your things.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#27
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The domain for that site is owned by a Chinese university, and the IP address of the server it's hosted on looks like a shared server (there's over 200 sites hosted on that IP). I doubt Mark has anything to do with hosting that site.

Out of sheer curiosity - how do you tell how many sites (and which ones) are hosted on a shared server?

You look up the DNS server: http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=di...

Then a whois record on the DNS: http://whois.domaintools.com/domaincontrol.com

Then a quick Google search shows results like "Note that anything ending in domaincontrol.com or secureserver.net is hosted by godaddy.com and/or wildwestdomains.com! If you have webmail, you can ..."

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

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post #25

That's a really sad news. He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet. He last commented 27 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MarkPilgrim [I loved his blog and I wish someone has archive for it. I did not archive it locally because Mark used to write articles about long term archival of his data and I didn't think he would ever delete all his public writings.]

He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet. I don't believe you can delete an HN account.

I think you can email pg to delete your account.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#29
post #20

Respect his wishes, even his google accounts/profiles gone.. As far as I know he is still working at Google

The problem is that there are no wishes to respect. I think everyone mainly just wants to know he is okay. If he is and he wants space, I'm sure he'll get it.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

#30
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The domain for that site is owned by a Chinese university, and the IP address of the server it's hosted on looks like a shared server (there's over 200 sites hosted on that IP). I doubt Mark has anything to do with hosting that site.

Out of sheer curiosity - how do you tell how many sites (and which ones) are hosted on a shared server?

http://spyonweb.com/

  or
http://w3who.net/

They are not always 100% complete, but they are free and have good coverage.

For example, did you know that ycombinator.com also hosts workatastartup.org? http://spyonweb.com/ycombinator.com

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