Hello Bogart !
Yes, not exactly unexpected --- it had slowed down a lot in past few years and it was no longer able to facilitate a member to load photos to the site from the member's computer files --- photos had to be installed using HTML code and have a URL address to do so. Many of the MTJ members are here also at OGR Forum, which I have been on for about 20 years now. Bill Lango and I became friends from the beginning and he even set that "Subways" site up at my request way back during the first year or so.
Another web server that I utilized for the past 15 years to create a photo website for my O-Scale NYC EL & Trolley Layout photos and history -- WTV-ZONE -- closed its operations after 18 or so years running when their server had a major meltdown in mid December and all its system files were lost. They did have file backups saved, but due to diminished customer base and major costs to install new server equipment -- they decided to pack it in.
WTV-ZONE was started - as an annual customer-billed service, by a husband and wife programmer team back around 2005 or 06, to "rescue" users of MSN's long popular early Webtv.net internet service which gave people WITHOUT computers, access to the internet since at least 1996, using a box receiver (size of a VCR unit) to access and use the internet, and their television scree to be the monitor. It worked well in those early years until computers got bigger, more powerful, more hi-resolution, and way larger file and storage capacity. The webtv system became the putttering Model T Ford on the modern highways of huge modern hi speed powerful automobiles. And MSN finally shut it down as the receivers were not capable of being "updated" like computers were.
well, thats the story -- gone but not forgotten ! regards - Joe F
