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Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website

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Post by marcodiego »

spfzero wrote: post #130
marcodiego wrote: post #89

I'm curious to know which 90's software was used for the graphics in https://www.heavensgate.com/

Me too. It's probably just my weird taste, but think it still looks pretty cool. I wondered what kind of look "cults" were going for these days on the "modern" web so checked out scientology.org. Way boring compared to Heaven's Gate, though the background image is fairly spacey.

I remember corel draw had a primitive 3d effect similar to that. So, I'd bet in a combination of corel draw + (corel photopaint | paint shop pro | photoshop).

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Post by peatmoss »

jmwilson wrote: post #6

Title should be clarified to match the article. Not everyone associated with the cult has perished. Several ex-members are alive and some remained close to the cult in a way that's hard to describe, and took on the maintenance of the website. HBO's series, Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults, is highly recommended. It is a fascinating, tragic, and ultimately humanizing look at the cult, through the eyes of observers and…

I took a sociology class on "alternative religions" from Rob Balch in college—he's one of the recurring experts in that series. I enjoyed the HBO series, as it went more into the various individuals' stories than is really on topic for a sociology class.

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Post by np_tedious »

rpeden wrote: post #67
np_tedious wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this comment. I was initially impressed that the site stated up that long with no human maintenance. Also, now I want to watch that documentary

It wouldn't surprise me too much. My completely embarrassing website from the 90s has been running on the same host and subdomain with zero work done by me to keep it running: http://boglin.iwarp.com I think I edited the HTML once since 1999 to add a Google Analytics tag because I was curious if anyone ever visited it.

Isn't that more about iwarp, who are presumably still alive and running a business and paying bills?

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Post by Handytinge »

genewitch wrote: post #24
grishka wrote: post #13

The article makes it look like the existence of this cult is an extremely widely-known fact and thus it doesn't need much introduction. But I only learned about it after clicking this link. It weirds me out that some people are so amenable to this kind of thing, enough to kill themselves.

If you were a teen or older when it happened, and lived in the US, it was pretty big news. I can still reach my cousin-in-law on an AOL email named after the comet mixed with his last name. Yes, it was cathartic to type this out and hit post.

That's maybe like 2-3% of the worlds population.
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