Smurftech by 2003
Hand-built technical reference.
The original Smurftech site brought practical PC and internet support material into a public home: part reference library, part download shelf and part web-development laboratory.
Launch the original 2003 site ↗
Site map
What it covered
Two records of the same site
A local June 2003 backup preserves the working directory, while a separate Wayback recovery records what the public web actually saw. Keeping both matters: the local copy contains experiments and supporting files that crawlers missed; the web record provides dates, public paths and evidence of what was published.
A site used as a lab
Alongside the support library are unfinished designs, a Perl-based Starfleet content-management experiment and remnants of hosting changes. They show the site being used to learn, test and refine—not simply to publish finished pages.
Why the old pages are not mounted directly
The originals depend on frames, dead advertising services, visitor counters, mail links and other external systems. The archive keeps those files intact off-site, while this modern layer preserves their meaning without silently changing the evidence or reactivating old dependencies.