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ZippoTricks disappears, archive.org fascinates

28th August 2003 by Simon

The Magical Singing Chef left me a comment on a posting about Zippo Tricks that I had made a little over a year ago. I went over to ZippoTricks.com and was shocked to see that ZippoTricks has had to remove its content after “tremendous scrutiny from various US groups, organizations and even political figures concerning the potential dangers involved with tricking.” What a crying shame - I know it had been very popular (I’ve had loads of hits on my page which just referred people to the site) and had built up a huge knowledge base of descriptions, images and videos.

The Magical Singing Chef asked if anyone had the HTML of the pages, I assume he’s still keen to learn how to do tricks on his Zippo. Well there is a couple of routes for getting to content that’s been removed from the Internet - either searching on Google and then looking at the cached document, or by using the far more interesting and deep method - archive.org.

Archive.org was previously known as the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and has snapshots of the Web going back to 1996, comprising of over 100 terabytes of data. It’s absolutely fascinating and you’ll loose hours looking back at how site layouts have changed, who has changed their blogs retrospectively, remembering long gone Web companies, the list runs on.

Sadly neither of these methods leads to you being able to see the all important images or videos on the ZippoTricks.com site as the images and video that the archived pages point to are on the original site, so if they’ve been removed your not going ot get to see them.

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31 Responses to “ZippoTricks disappears, archive.org fascinates”

on 03 Sep 2003 at 4:26 am bigFrank

Man i wish i knew about this site a long time ago.Funny thing is that i heard about it after it was shutdown.i know a few tricks but im sure they are nothing compared to what you had listed on zippotricks.com.well if you have any new info please share it withme and i’ll be sure to list it on this site if i have any luck
on 07 Sep 2003 at 3:21 am Fei Lei

When Zippotricks.com went down, there were 572 tricks. I have the videos AND the text descriptions to ALL THE TRICKS.
on 09 Sep 2003 at 9:46 pm craig

If anyone comes up with a new source for zippo tricks or some of the old pages, please send them my way. after the advertisiment in this months playboy, i decided to buy my boss a personalized zippo and attach the link to zippotricks.com. after he recieved the gift he went to check it out and the site was gone. it’s not the same trying to explain what was there.

:(
on 09 Sep 2003 at 9:46 pm craig

If anyone comes up with a new source for zippo tricks or some of the old pages, please send them my way. after the advertisiment in this months playboy, i decided to buy my boss a personalized zippo and attach the link to zippotricks.com. after he recieved the gift he went to check it out and the site was gone. it’s not the same trying to explain what was there.

:(
on 19 Sep 2003 at 4:12 am Johnny

i’m still in shock over the fact that zippo tricks is gone. i wasn’t able to learn all the tricks. i was wondering if anyone was able to send me any of the tricks that they know. i’ve been a proud zippo carrier for 2 years.
on 05 Oct 2003 at 9:27 pm tealik

If someone could send me the zippo tricks that they have saved anywhere. That would be great
on 06 Oct 2003 at 9:39 pm Nick

i am a new zippo carrier but if you have a cool trick please send. (njcatucci89@netscape.net)
on 21 Oct 2003 at 2:51 pm someone thats dissapointed

I also just found out about the site zippotricks.com from my mate (oct-2003) and how great it is, and it being oct-2003 i was pretty dissapointed on its status… too bad
on 30 Oct 2003 at 1:37 am cav

Yo all make me sick, the web site was taken off for a good reason… ha! just kidding, what crap is this, one kid burs his house down trin to do a trick. so what its his dumb fault.
on 08 Nov 2003 at 4:53 am :-(

I herd about the site and ment to go on it but i never got the time as soon as i remebered about it the damn thing was gone :-( . I was wondering if anyone would be able to mail me any tricks you got saved. TY
on 09 Nov 2003 at 5:49 am Bob

omg Fei Lei u serious about having all the tricks? If so please upload them! or send them my way and I will up them, these are well sought after articles! :0
on 15 Nov 2003 at 11:10 pm guysduff

—
http://www.lightertricks.net
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on 07 Dec 2003 at 11:24 pm Zippofan

If anyone has some tricks they could send me that would be cool.
on 09 Dec 2003 at 4:54 pm Joe

I don’t know what dick head would want to shut down a site like zippotricks.com, I mean if some one hurts their self, it’s their own motherflucking fault! I mean, hey, I may well burn my house down, hurt myself, trying to do something like a zippo trick, but I beleive I am solely responsible. Hello pete, if someone said jump of damned cliff and you did it, common (although obviously not so common anymore…) sense would tell you who’s the dumbass!

Fuck Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schummer, Rosie O’Donnel and all those other bum-fucks who don’t know grits from shoe polish…
on 20 Dec 2003 at 9:34 pm Taylor

fei lei could u start a site on geocities or something and put all your saved files from zippotricks on it. that way u could get em all back into circulation thanks if u cant email em to me
on 20 Dec 2003 at 9:34 pm Taylor

fei lei could u start a site on geocities or something and put all your saved files from zippotricks on it. that way u could get em all back into circulation thanks if u cant email em to me
on 20 Dec 2003 at 9:34 pm Taylor

fei lei could u start a site on geocities or something and put all your saved files from zippotricks on it. that way u could get em all back into circulation thanks if u cant email em to me
on 31 Dec 2003 at 9:12 am caddy

fei lei you should reali think about starting a website with all the tricks on it. if you cannt be bothered, send me everything, and i will get it up on the web again for public consumption.
on 03 Jan 2004 at 8:25 am stludatic112

Fei Lei…I’m sure that you are getting tired of requests for the videos but if there is any way that you could send me any of your files I would really appreciate it. If anyone else has the videos and could send them to me that would also be great.
on 03 Jan 2004 at 9:04 pm steam

The founder of zippotricks.com just launched lightertricks.com. It is password protected for the time being, but here’s the info you need:

user: feedme
pass: tricks

enjoy!
on 07 Jan 2004 at 4:34 pm rgnbgn

why dosnt the site load
its like its stuck \
on 11 Jan 2004 at 7:56 pm Akmed

steam: how do we get in with that password?
on 13 Jan 2004 at 6:01 pm boomer

Looks like they started the IP blocking of the US and Europe. Anyone in the US found a good way to get around it, like with an anonymous web surfing program or something?
on 13 Jan 2004 at 8:41 pm STEAM

HOW TO GET PAST THE IP BLOCKAGE!!!!!

The IP block in just a temp. thing. It sucks, but it is neccessary for the time being.

If you are blocked, I suggest you mail the founder of lightertricks.com (and the late zippotricks.com). Perhaps he can help you out.

morten@lightertricks.com

Also, to bypass it you can do the following.

Internet Explorer 5.xx: Tools | Internet Options… | Connections. Select either dial-up connection or LAN (depending on how you connect to the Internet), press Settings. Check the “Use Proxy Server” box– enter proxy address (127.0.0.1) and port (8088), click OK, click on the next OK.
Note: You must also uncheck the “Use HTTP 1.1″ and “Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections” checkboxes in the Advanced tab of Internet Options dialog box.
Netscape 4.xx: you first have to go through Edit | Preferences. Then in the frame on the left, click on the box with plus sign in it next to Advanced, then select Proxies from under Advanced. Select “Manual proxy configuration” on the right side of the dialog box and click the button labeled “View…” next to it. Enter proxy address (127.0.0.1) and port (8088), click OK, click on the next OK.
Internet Explorer 4.xx: View | Internet Options | Connection tab | “Access Internet using a proxy server” box | Advanced or Settings — enter proxy address (127.0.0.1) and port (8088), click OK, click on the next OK.
Internet Explorer 3.xx: View | Options | Connections tab | Connect through proxy server box | Settings — enter proxy address (127.0.0.1) and port (8088), click OK, click on the next OK.
Internet Explorer 2.xx: View | Options | Proxy — enter proxy address (127.0.0.1) and port (8088), click OK, click on the next OK.
Netscape 3.xx, 2.xx: Options | Network Preferences | Proxies | Manual Proxy Configuration | View — enter proxy address (127.0.0.1) and port (8088), click OK, click on the next OK.With Netscape 2.0, follow with Options | Save Options.
Windows NT with Internet Explorer: Control Panel -> Internet | Advanced | Proxy.
Opera: Preferences | Proxy servers — check the box next to HTTP, enter proxy address (127.0.0.1) and port (8088), click OK.

ATTENTION! The ip address used in this example is purely an example.
Obviously you need a fresh and up to date IP address. Go to this site to get it:

http://www.atomintersoft.com/products/alive-proxy/proxy-list/

The ip address of the proxy server needs to be updated on a regular basis.

Also check out Multi Proxy - freeware
http://www.multiproxy.org/multiproxy.htm
on 24 Jan 2004 at 11:37 pm nellina

if somebody can please send me some tricks i am despreate!!!!!!!!!!!!
on 11 Feb 2004 at 3:29 am Tias

You can visit the site even from within the US or EU using the proxy thingy STEAM was kind enough to explain. I found that in Mozilla the direct link works without getting a block. I haven’t tested this thoroughly tho so no guarantees but here goes:

http://www.lightertricks.com/index1.html

happy trickin’ :D
on 22 Feb 2004 at 1:02 am The Saint

Thanks for putting that url up, that will work if not send an e-mail, happy tricking
on 03 May 2004 at 4:36 pm Pascal Moeller

If somebody can please send me smome zippo tricks? I am despreate, because i can??t use ligthertricks.com, or zippotricks.com

Please help me
on 04 May 2004 at 4:00 am Critical

how do you want me to send you tricks? like the url link or like the video files?… Id be more than happy to give you it, but i need to remember to come back here to see what you say….LOL. Well wish me luck that i remember to come back.
on 03 Jul 2004 at 6:26 pm The Saint

We ARE BACK, effectivew from the 4th of july the IP block is lifted!
on 17 Aug 2006 at 11:55 pm adam

still won’t work for me. I’m in the uk and i have tired many proxys