What happened to fiberq.com?

[BarryS]

There was a very good resource for information on American view cameras at fiberq.com. I could have sworn that I was there last week checking on some information about Century cameras, but the web site is gone now. The domain name seems to be owned by Fiberquant Analytical Services and the Internet Archive pulls up pages from this company.

The obvious explanation is that I accidentally transferred to a parallel time stream where fiberq.com was never a source for LF camera info. Unless I've been brainwashed by the evil corporation that controls the world because I've stumbled onto something big. Or the site is just down today--whatever.

Does anyone know what happened, know the owner of the camera site (is it Larry Fiberquant?), or have the full site archived? I've been thinking about some LF web resources that I'd hate to lose and I'd already archived another site, but hadn't gotten around to the fiberq site. Thanks.

[Terence McDonagh]

Damn. Haven't looked for it in a while.

You can still find it on the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fiberq.com/cam/

[Jim C.]

It seemed to have moved, the site was probably getting too many hits for it's given
bandwidth allotment and was removed from the Fiberq host site.

I stumbled across it again here but it's spotty trying to reach the individual camera pages, seems the person added a camera or two.

Not sure if the LFphotography site could host the pages, it's a great resource
and it would be a shame to loose it.

[BarryS]

Thanks Terence and Jim. I'll try to archive the site tonight, but hopefully, fiberq.com will be back up soon.

[videohdv]

Hi, I propose to look at the following address: http://www.piercevaubel.com/cam/cent.htm

[IanG]

It seemed to have moved, the site was probably getting too many hits for it's given
bandwidth allotment and was removed from the Fiberq host site.

I stumbled across it again here but it's spotty trying to reach the individual camera pages, seems the person added a camera or two.

Not sure if the LFphotography site could host the pages, it's a great resource
and it would be a shame to loose it.

It looks like the site's author Larry Pierce has just moved it to his own domain it's quite recent and as yet has no homepage etc, I've always assumed Mathew Brady is a Pseudonym.

Ian

[mathew_brady]

I had to abandon the fiberq.com isp. The new index for the web site is http://www.piercevaubel.com/cam/
Same site, more cameras. I have to get off my duff and photograph the recent acquisitions, some pretty rare, bicycle and pocket cameras in quarter plate format. Glad you enjoy the data.