The Men Va Fan! Museum
Timeline
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2001 | First capture by the Wayback Machine (August). Hand-written HTML, "tested in Opera". |
| 2002–2003 | The site grows: MP3s, the e-postcard service, the library, forum and IRC chat. The homepage carries the boot-and-handwriting logo "MenVaFan! – Ett litet portalförsök" ("a small attempt at a portal"). |
| 2003–2009 | Regular updates; hosted mini-sites for other groups (a food-and-drink society, a summer picnic with bands and football, a collective). |
| 2009–2016 | Updates stop. The homepage stays online unchanged, with occasional server errors from 2014. |
| Nov 2016 | Last archived capture. The domain lapses around 2017. |
| 2026 | Domain picked up by new editors and relaunched as a punk magazine, keeping the old section addresses. |
The original sections
The menu was in Swedish, with an English page for visitors. Here is what each section held and where its subject lives today. Old addresses redirect to the new sections.
| Section (2001–2016) | What was there | Today |
|---|---|---|
Mp3 Punkers/Musik/ | More than 200 MP3s — "our not entirely unpractised collection". | Music |
Ultrahusetultrahuset.org | Tribute to the Stockholm venue: photos, music "and other small good things". | Punk Stuff |
Hunddagisethunddagiset.org | The same treatment for Hunddagiset, another Stockholm punk place. | Punk Stuff |
Punkrock High Library/bocker/ | Longer texts in electronic form: Profane Existence zine issues, a hacker's dictionary, political texts. | Punk Library |
PunkStuff/annat/ | A punk FAQ, flyers, reviews, "texts and oddities connected to punk as a subculture". | Punk Stuff |
WorkingClassPride – Fotboll!/fotboll/ | AIK, Celtic and St. Pauli, with terrace songs — "the sport that gave us Oi!". | Football |
Punks´n Pirates/pirat/ | Pirate culture from a punk perspective, sea shanties included. | Pirates |
Nördigheter/geek/ | Computers, GNU and Linux — including Swedish translations of the GNU Manifesto and the GPL. | Geek |
Makaronimonstrets Kokbok/recept/ | Recipes for drinks, baking "and other things that might taste good". | — |
FlameWar Heaven & Tjöta!/Forum/, /Chat/ | A small forum with a web front-end to alt.punk, and the site's own IRC server. | — |
I am an antichrist, I am SportySpice/melc/ | The Anarchist Melanie C Fanclub. Exactly as serious as it sounds. | — |
The homepage quote
"Ungarna vill bara ta sig in i andra datasystem. Vi skall inte uppmuntra hackers. Tro mig, det är vad modem står för. Eller som vi säger på Datainspektionen: Köper du modem skaffar du problem."Attributed on the site to Anita Bondestam, then director-general of the Swedish Data Inspection Board. Roughly: "The kids just want to break into other computer systems. We shouldn't encourage hackers. Believe me, that's what modems are for. Or as we say at the Data Inspection Board: buy a modem, get problems." It set the tone — half political, half nerdy.
Badges of the era
- The EFF Blue Ribbon campaign for free speech online.
- A SETI@home banner — "join the search for extraterrestrial intelligence".
- A search box for Project Galactic Guide, a 1990s collaborative guide project.
- An Indymedia banner and a link to the guestbook: "write something nice :)".
What we did not bring back
The MP3s and the reprinted zines belonged to the bands and writers who made them, so we don't re-host them. The hosted mini-sites belonged to other groups. If you were part of the original site or one of those groups and want something credited, linked or corrected, get in touch.
More about the site today: About · Men Va Fan! 2001–2016: what this site used to be.