Question

Once, there was this awesome SNIPPETS library of C (and C++) code. I used it from 1995 on, but its origin is much older and it was updated until at least 2007. From time to time, I found that I needed a piece of code not from a library, but something I could cut and paste into my own projects.

To my horror, it’s now gone. There are traces of it, dead links on SO for instance.

Can anybody find me a mirror, or an archive of it? I had an early version on my harddrive for years, but not any more.

Answer 1

TL;DR

Full github mirror of the code ^{(Edited to point to github site, since first mirror died.)}

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Since your ServerFault question was off topic, I thought I’d post this here;

*puts on detective hat*

Well DNSHistory.org reports the domain snippets.org used to point to ‘206.251.38.37’ up till 2011-04-02 (When did the domain go?)

Using CURL to send the ‘host’ header to that server;

[samr@ocelot~]$ curl -I -H "Host:snippets.org" http://206.251.38.37/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:12:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/4.4.4-8+etch6 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4-8+etch6
Content-Type: text/html

gives us a response. Next step, what does that page look like?

Well just getting the HTML and opening it in lynx;

[samr@ocelot~]$ curl -H "Host:snippets.org" http://206.251.38.37/ > snippets.org.html
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 10319    0 10319    0     0  29500      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 52583
[samr@ocelot~]$ lynx snippets.org.html

Gives the wonderful response of;

SNIPPETS sponsors [MicroFirm.gif] Firmware, system, and sensors
development [Sponsor.jpg] Click here to learn more [dmlogo.gif]
“Free C/C++ Compilers” [188x44_bss14.jpg] “High-Performance Version
Control”

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                                                    Free educational resources on the Internet
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                                                       Thursday, 24-Nov-2011, 15:13:22 GMT
                                                     Last modified: 01-Apr-2007, 05:50:42 GMT
                                                        395594 visitors since 15-Jul-2002
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Mission:

SNIPPETS.ORG is dedicated to providing free informational and
educational resources on the World Wide Web. Currently, the two
principle topics are programming and do-it-yourself (DIY) audio.
The fields covered by SNIPPETS.ORG are generally technology and arts.
As soon as enough free material is collected, new sections will be
added related to photography and digital imaging.

The one common factor in everything you’ll find on this site is
that it’s all free. Programming source code is free. Tools and
utilities are free. And, of course, information is always free.
While SNIPPETS.ORG provides many links to commercial sites, it is a
not-for-profit operation – nothing here is for sale! If you wish
to contribute content, information, or entire web sites to
SNIPPETS.ORG, please contact me.
[snip]

So to answer your question, the domain used to point to ‘206.251.38.37’, and the site (appears to) still exist.

Next thing; mirroring. The wget tool provides a --mirror flag to recursively download a website to a directory, which looks to be just what we’re after.

Started creating a mirror on my home server, but here’s the command I’m using;

wget --header="Host:snippets.org" --mirror -p --convert-links -P ./snippets.org/ http://206.251.38.37/

Then I extracted the files from the code directories and uploaded them to my mirror site http://mirror.rmg.io/snippets.org/

embedded.snippets.org reports as ‘down for maintenance’ so couldn’t be spidered.