SMURFTECH

Recovered history

The projects that led here.

Before Smurftech was a place for current projects, it was a way to turn hard-won fixes into something reusable. This archive follows that thread from private ISP support notes and simulated Windows desktops to a hand-built website, PHP-Nuke modules and community work.

Archive timeline

From workbench notes to Smurftech

  1. Origins

    Learning, support and virtual desktops

    A first personal site, private ISP support notes and browser-based Windows 98/2000 walkthroughs.

    Four local collections identified
  2. By 2003

    The hand-built Smurftech site

    Technical references, setup guides, downloads and experiments assembled in frames and FrontPage-era HTML.

    Local backup and 85-file web recovery
  3. 2004 onward

    The PHP-Nuke toolbox

    A portal-era Smurftech site and a collection of modules, blocks and reference datasets.

    Local site and development sources recovered
  4. Community era

    Evolution and shared modules

    Ports and collaborations that moved Smurftech’s tools into the wider PHP-Nuke Evolution ecosystem.

    Five working collections identified

How to read this archive

Preserved, not revived.

01

Tell the story

Modern pages explain what survived, why it existed and how each piece fits into the history.

02

Keep originals intact

Preservation copies remain unchanged and private, with hashes and recovery records retained separately.

03

Publish deliberately

Personal data, third-party material and legacy code are reviewed before anything downloadable appears.