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Treasured relic from the age before the so-called “death of irony” withdrawn from cryogenic preservation.


Insert post-ironic comment hereFrosty’s WWII poster fun page

The six of you who read the site regularly have noticed that, for a long time, the link to Frosty’s WWII poster fun page was under the heading “where did this site go”, and for a lot longer than that, it was simply a dead link.

After preserving it for private use via a slow, fairly unreliable archive, I was debating publicizing the archive. As is not too surprising for a cob-web of several years, the provided e-mail link to Frosty has been as dead as the site. Several alternatives presented themselves:

] I could provide an unreliable link to an archive that is very often down, and is terribly slow by 28.8K modem standards even when it’s up.

] I could continue to host a private archive available only to people I correspond with regularly.

] I could host the archive publicly with a disclaimer making it very clear that this is not my creation, and that all credit is due to Frosty - whoever and wherever he might be.

I chose the latter. Read more »