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AOL homepage recovery notes

This is a search record for old AOL member sites associated with the screen names neutronbum and completelycrazy. No AOL Members or Hometown page capture was recovered as of 2026-08-09, but pages recovered from neologic.net now confirm that both names belonged to Alan Dipert.

search-record.tsv preserves each archive/host search and its negative or inconclusive result. confirmed-links.tsv points to the positive period evidence retained in the Neologic WARC. Keeping both prevents a future search from mistaking “not found” for “never existed.”

URL patterns checked

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine was queried for each screen name under the historical AOL member-site hosts below, including bare directories, trailing slashes, index.html, and the _ht_a directory form:

Exact-URL availability checks and prefix searches returned no snapshots for either screen name. Arquivo.pt URL-index and full-text searches also returned no relevant captures. These negative results do not prove that the pages were never archived; captures may be indexed under a different URL, spelling, or redirect target.

The oldest applicable Common Crawl indexes were also queried, but their index service returned connection errors during this search. That source remains to be checked again.

Confirmed identity links

The recovered Neologic archive contains five captures of /ad/aboutme.php, from February through December 2003, that say “Completely Crazy” was Alan's AIM screen name. The link uses the AIM URI aim:GoIm?screenname=completelycrazy&message=sup.

The Neologic error page reached through the archived July 2001 /ps/ redirect identifies neutronbum@aol.com as the webmaster. This is strong period evidence connecting both handles to the same personal and business sites, although neither page gives an AOL homepage URL.

The supporting HTTP responses are preserved in ../web-history/neologic-net.warc.gz, with provenance documented in the adjacent README.

Period-era clues

The recovered source for ProblemScan v1.0, written in February 2000, contains two related web addresses:

No capture connected either address to the two screen names during this search. They are useful leads for future link-index, guestbook, and archived directory searches.

The strongest next clue would be any remembered page title, filename, full or partial URL, approximate year, topic, graphic filename, guestbook entry, or a site that linked to either AOL page.