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Greetings to fellow travellers

Webrings Visitor

AI avoiders 4 lyfe

love the site. thanks for adding me to the webring you seem like a real nice person <3

this website is so calming. i adore your writing style too!
i think this is my favorite place on the internet.

I love your site!!!!!! ur webring is cool af and I'm gonna join it asap :]

hey man i really love how deep and well lived this site is, i care about a lot of the stuff you share. thanks for making it

no-ai-webring member #302 here! it's so weird seeing how big this webring is now. 1400 members and counting!

Thanks you made my day :) My website is http://connor.pythonanywhere.com

hello fellow human on the internet! loved reading your manifesto and wanted to say thanks for providing a no ai webring. have a great day!

fuck ai , it is a demonic manmade abomination hiding behind the veil of mimmicked speech . It preaches to be the end all be all , but it isnt even conscious enough to be considered a being for it cannot comprehend its own herasy as it is a mere mimicry machine.

hello fellow webpage owner! I found you by way of the 1.44mb website. I enjoyed rading your manifesto on the internet and thought I would drop in and say hey.

fuck ai

Hi Advice for making my own site free hosting

fuck ai

Thank you for no ai webring! Your site is also super cool amd personal, I love its minimalistic yet informational style! Good luck to you and all best!

Wound up here following cozynet. Haven't much to say besides being around 2002's a testament. Godspeed!

Came here because of the No AI webring. Stayed for the love letter to the internet this site is.

im trans

Hi I just applied and put the code on my little blog site. Going to be traveling and not accessing that email for about a week. Like this idea!

this website's great! the skeleton reconstruction page is incredibly helpful-im using it for a mixed media project. I also love the vegetarian recipes, I'm about to make the red sauce pasta. thank you!!

very cool I wish the old internet could be revived

just starting down the webpage rabbit hole today, this place rocks! :)

sickk

very very cool

This is very very very awesome!!! I really like how for just about anything you can get the code. It's super helpful.

How refreshing to surf the web and read your website. thank you for all of that!

Hello, exploring the indie web and trying to start my own blog. Thanks friend.

very cool

i'm so so glad that i found this website, it's really encouraging me to keeping going with my own and the no ai webring is awesome!

Hi, super happy to see a no AI webring exist! I'm still building my site and yours is providing lotsa inspiration. Hope you had a lovely new year!

HFLLO ALL YOU BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY UHISDHFJKNSDKVLKGLD;GS;;;;;;; UHM.

So glad to have found this (via HTML hobbyist) and love the fact there is still a way to use the internet while resisting corporate fascism. To make my own site, with nothing but HTML and CSS, is my own goal -- I'm new to this!

Glad to see a webring like this exists! <3

heyy love ur little project! keep resisting genAI an the tech oligarchs <3

Thank you so much for sharing your simple and seamless guestbook code and for the entertainment your site's brought me!

♡,
Selena

incredible site, thanks for all :D

Hi

Hi! So sorry to bother you again, but I am back from hiatus. I'd love to be re-added if it isn't too much of a burden! Tysm. :)

awesomesause-iest site

I got hours of entertainment from your links page and your old link scraping project! Especially cool to see the slash fanfiction ring: there are some familiar names from the Blake's 7, due South and Oz fandoms there.

Love your article to the people of the Internet. I share it with anyone who will read. Your site is educational and fun!

happy birthday!

its someones birthday today

but idk who.

just popped in from another site on the no ai webring and had to send in an application.

Enjoyed your website. It's great to go back to the old school. The '90s were a wild time, and the internet didn't suck then. Even when 56K was blazingly fast. You brought memories back brother.

I could even say that I am now inspired to do the same. Maybe I'll have to build a website join a web ring.

Amazing site!!!! I've been looking for sources and hubs like this I really appreciate the work. Peace to the world!!

Absolutely stunning website, I'm so glad I stumbled into it, actually made my day

Thanks for inspiring me to craft my own robots.txt to deter AI while allowing search indexing. Tho, unlike the massive list of AI user agents, I just block everything first, and manually allow known search crawlers. Either way, this site has been very useful. Thanks. (^_^)

Rewild the web! Awesome site.

A Really beautiful place. I lose faith in the web a lot, so thank you :)

I just want to say... Nice job, you somehow created a not-eye searingly CSS-full site without making it look like someone curl'd a plaintext file.

Hey, cool web! I'll be coming back for more updates and stuff when i have learned more about all this neocities and web stuff.
And maybe even take the code for the guestbook! :)
Thanks for this

Couldn't resist searching for the golden comma. Found it on the crimps page, then realised someone had already found it in May this year !

Great idea, thanks for making the web a brighter place.

PS, +10 points if you can find a way to hide the styling that I can't HTML search ;)

Top website and I aspire to write as well as you!

Love this site!

I love how clean and easy to navigate your site is!
( ´ ꒳ ` ) ♡

hello again! i ended up figuring out the issue (the 3-digit code i was trying to use was already taken), so i have successfully submitted an app!

thank you for doing what you do!

I've been having a blast going through your site, I really enjoy the layout as well as the content, even if I've never smoked with a pipe! I'll definitely be checking in again to hopefully see even more interesting things. :D

howdy! i'd love to join the no ai webring, but i'm having trouble having the application go through... i think i'm filling out everything correctly?

so pleased to have found this site! stoked to be a small part of the no-ai webring >:))

❤️

burgin it up! burg burg

Let them burn, long and hot!

When kept damp, bog wood will not rot as it knows not how. My main take away. Many thanks for your knowledge, this is an amazing place.

awesome site!

Add simplexchat for contact with you.

ty for making this awesome wearing <3 ty!!

tysm for making these incredible webrings!!!! screw AI!!

I saw you said this: Finally: don't look back and I really liked that. Unlike some of the other people who had the opportunity to experience the old sprawling internet, I got into the internet after Facebook and Snapchat and stuff already existed. And slowly I have started weaning myself away from these big corporate sites. So I will work on "we have to build something new" and will soon add my website here too!

i saw this guestbook and immediately wanted to integrate it into my website! i should really use more php like this on my otherwise completely static site for small dynamic things. this is way easier than making a whole backend and writing a load of js to interact with it :3

Ooh my gawddd..a GUESTBOOK! I haven't been on one of these since the mid 00s Piczo days. Heeyyyyyy!

ps. Free Palestine

great site i love the simpleness of it, thanks for the no ai webring

thank you for your anti-ai resources! from a total coding beginner ദ്ദി ૮-‿-"ა

ai will never be beautiful the way human rawness is. ai will never have the love human hands do. i despise ai with all of my being and im so grateful for this webring i love all of you

AI is such a quick dirty solution to hard, human problems

this is a cool site! I like the plain design.

i adore the webring css!!

love ur site and i hate ai

Love the vibe and design of this site. Very personal, very oldschool.

Really cool site!

I love the idea of your webring, AI in its current format makes me very sad and angry about the state of humanity/the world :( Happy to have found your community!

I love this idea!!! AI and LLM are stupid!

everyone should be legally required to press B . this site feels like hidden treasure on the web.

This shall maybe potentially probably be the next webring maybe. I think. Who knows... https://subgenius.com/hwbw.htm

thank you for useful resources and a cool webring!

also, i really like your website design :>

im not in the webring cuz im already in like 5 but this is fire, im loving the vibes and all the webbed sites in this webbed ring are so cool

10/10 keep up the fire vibes :D

I'm actually already in the ring, but due to some junk, I had to change my actual website name. I was originally Slayersalem, with the 3 letter code sea. I changed it to Salemaddams, is there any way to change the links to my new site?

I don't know why it took 500+ years for it to happen though. I am still omega happy that it happened! YAY!!!

I love that you have the URL! My stepfather passed away eight years ago and in the millions of interesting objects he left behind was a baccyflap. He had it as long as I remember and he loved it. He usually kept a different type of plant in it for smoking.

Because he loved it and I remembered it, I made sure to keep it. What was weird was that I remembered it being Bakelite, but this one seemed like plastic and had a chipped screw ring, which I didn’t remember.

Well, I found a second one! Definitely Bakelite and definitely the one I remember. It even had a little tobacco in it. However, it was branded Wunnup and is a slightly flatter shape. I was looking it up to figure out if baccyflap was just a common name to see if it was made by multiple manufacturers. Now I know the truth!

I was very glad to find the second one because it is the one I remember and much nicer in every aspect. They’re both brown, but the plastic one doesn’t have the wonderful tortoiseshell effect.

Thank you for your work keeping this alive! It is a beautiful object.

thank you for sharing your robots.txt! really appreciate all your anti-AI resources :-)

pressing B really does make it all better!

Please bring back the OLSP. I need it so that I don't have to look through a lot of ancient websites on my own just to potentially find some good stuff!

yu cool....

stumbled on this site by chance (coincidentally while looking for a guestbook for our own site). really neat place, big fan of what you have to offer here <3

i've enjoyed this so much. i already forgot where it is, but you wrote a post where you had a really poignant line about taking our attention spans and social circles back from corporations. i decided like two days ago to h*ll with it and get on neocities and delete all of my social media and never look back. two days in and i'm having so much fun and actually /doing/ things. so thank you for that

thank you for sharing so many useful things! makes me want to invest in a dynamic hosting more:) applied to your webring too, i hope to be a part of it soon.

Hello, I came across this website looking up crimps from mighty boosh, because that is the part of the show that I enjoy a lot. When I found your webpage with them compiled and organised so nicely, I was so pleasantly surprised that I blabbered about it to my friends. There is a lot of other cool stuff on this website too. Your website is awesome and I love it.

this is very coolness beansy stuff 🌞🌞🌞

Hey, it's me, Elon Musk! I love this website you've got here, and I'm interested in possibly purchasing it. I did the same thing for a little website called Twitter and it's been wonderful.

Got here accidentally through cloudhiker, delightful brief experience, i love what you're doing <3

Really cool to see this and be a part of the history! Hoping all my fellow netizens a good rest of the year.

Awesome place, glad to see a piece of the old net survived.

I found this via Cloudhiker and a nostalgic joy flooded over me, I enjoyed my time on this page. Thank you <3

fuck those stupid AI bots

I found a few really interesting articles: https://example1.com

Hello. Both my websites needs to be taken down from your webring since...

1. One "artist" I commissioned art from made traced art and potentially use AI for them. I did add that info at the related pages. While I cannot say if it's 100% AI or not, the potential is here.

2. I had brought many cute vtuber/pngtubers for cheap on etsy and posted them on my website as a gallery/collection. I found out yesterday they are all AI made. I'll add the infos to the related pages today but still AI art is AI art.

I rather be honest and tell you so you can remove me now then waiting and some1 else warm you about "hidden AI content" from me.

miaqcarchive.ca
explicit.miaqcarchive.ca

thanks for making the internet a more connected place!

I love what your building and I love what you've written in your blogs. I am learning and exploring this newly found (for me) _real_ internet.

Banger website, my favourite execution of the plain black-on-white style by a country mile. can confirm the B key very much makes things better

Awesome site! I added you to my webring, sorry it took so long!

leaving this message from an HTC Dream, the first Android device

something about the white on black exclusively (save the flag of palestine) makes my brain immensely happy. i dunno. amazing stuff too (sort of reminds me of a wikipedia rabbit hole i'd half remember) but the color (or lack thereof) stuck out the must to me. in a positive way

i am on a very long indie internet surfing session, in preparation (procrastination) of my first own website. very neat stuff on here, all sorts useful or just the right amount of anti-fascist :) <3

OH YEAH UH sorry for the late response on the sonnet question. For special interests I am an aspiring artist and draw a lot!!

hewyo, went trawling throgh cloudhiker and gyots here via an webring
Thesem amazings, just learned what they are and can say downright properly both impressed and awed. based as hyeck interweb system :3
the layout of ur site is like super coolios.
-The one and only, Elmvrey

Hello again! I re-read your "robots must die" post today and the two "stopgap solutions" you listed reminded me that there's a third option: trapping the bots in a maze of garbage, like this guy did: [link]

I figure you probably already know about this technique by now, but maybe someone reading this guestbook doesn't!

Hey! Found your site this week and it's an absolute treasure mine. Planning to become a part of your webring after I finally publish some essays :)

Yo! I found your golden comma in the all mighty booth crimps page. Just want to let you know! :]

your website looks like a newspaper i love it!!!

Hey hey hey! I'm just here to ask a quick question about the NoAI web-ring — would vocal synthesis engines like Synthesizer V count as AI content?

SynthV does basically work the same as alot of the more well-known engines such Vocaloid, but utilises "AI" tech.

The catch is is that it's different from what usually comes out of 'AI':

1) It's not completely generative. The "AI" is primarily used to provide data for voicebanks — it takes phonemes from hours of singing data instead of needing separate phoneme recordings. It also powers features such as Cross-lingual synthesis (allowing voicebanks to sing in languages that they weren't recorded in). Technically there's auto-pitch tuning, but even then the tuning is still primarily done by a human (and humans can provide more possibilities in tuning since autopitch is meant to have a realistic sound while some producers prefer a more robotic one).

2)The voicebanks are done with consent from their voice providers and nothing seems to be scraped, so SynthV is seems pretty ethical.

So even with this, is SynthV still treated like any other genAI content in the webring? Sorry that this got so long, and I apologise if this sounds rude — I'm actually genuinely curious.

Anyways, cool website and take care! :]

you are an inspiration. i wasnt around for the 2000s internet but i want to revive it so i can experience it. im gna spend my summer promoting the independent web and making videos and tools to spread to the masses

ahhh this scratched an itch in my brain I could not get to for YEARS. THANK YOU for bringing me back to early 2000s personal web days <3

Hello!! A very nice website, and the "press B to make things better" totally made my day<3
^-^

Thank you for adding my website AGAIN lol.

Here just to say you have a neat website :)

Howdy! Glad to be part of NoAI webring. :)

I'm so excited to let people see my site and see others as well outside of the mainstream internet.

My site now has the widget equipped and works well.

hiiii i just joined your no AI webring (absolutely astounded at the response speed btw!!) since i have also just been sick and tired by the neverending slew of dull, uninspired slop oozing from the seams that barely hold modern social media together

although i was initially entranced and i did use it for a little while back when it first became popular, i've now since committed to never using it to help me code or write at all, since i just feel like it would make my work lose the innate charm of being human-made.

art just isn't meant for machines to replicate. i want the internet to feel alive again~

Submitted to the webring, also nice site

thank you for the no AI webring — this is my first webring, as i just discovered them today. :d

your website is very lovely ^_^

hiii <3 i freaking hate the hold corporate social media and at the same freaking love people like you who love the internet and their fellow human beings, it just warms my heart.

I grew up with the old internet and while it wasn't perfect, it definitely felt 100 times more exciting than those lifeless apps. booting up the computer and exploring forums and websites made me giddy as all hell.

Also reading thru your website helped me finally get the courage to start my own lil website (i genuinely thought i had to like, code EVERYTHING from scratch, which sounded too intimidating, but i realized i can just choose a template and work my way from there so uhh thank you!!)

I fucking love webrings dude I’m so glad i found this

I ran into this site by looking up the lyrics to a mighty boosh crimp so cheers for that

I FUCKING HATE AI!! I HATE BEING A SLAVE TO HUGE CORPORATIONS!!!!!!!! I HATE NOT HAVING CONTROL OVER MY WORDS, OVER WHAT I SEE, OVER WHAT I HEAR, OVER ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will willingly drink a thousand gallons of poison before i give even a single cent to whatever company wants to monetize my thoughts and tell me what i can and can't think.

also this site is indeed quite awesome. will def join the no ai webring when i figure out how the actual internet fully works

sick website bro. thanks for the carousels

Hello earthlings. Do you ever sit there and think dam, I need to go to the bathroom but I don't want to get up. Just if there was a button I could press to use the bathroom for me. Anyways I should take a nap soon. Existing is too much work.

Theres more to it

i had a lot of fun looking at the dutch east indies illustrations. as both an indonesian and an artist, the drawings were incredibly interesting to study and analyze. thank you so much for sharing!

This is really cool. I had read about about webrings in theory but this is even better in practice.

It's nice to see a no ai webrings! Keep up the good job!!! >:]

https://explicit.miaqcarchive.ca/ is back online. Can the link be updated as "not dead"? Thanks.

I like the concept , the design , Everything !! I'll make sure to apply when I get a Website ^_^

Such a lovely website! I really like the simplistic design

Hey, I'll be using your guestbook code for my own site too. Thanks a lot! And you also have a lovely site :)

Your website is awesome and you should feel awesome for making it.

Hi! I love your museum, it truly feels like I discovered a little chest of drawers filled with treasure. Also if you don't already know it, you might like the song pedestrian at best by courtney barnett. There's a line in it that goes "give me all your money and I'll make some oragami honey!" :)

cool site man!

Hi! Thanks Baccyflap.com for getting me on the webring for Neocities! It's awesome sauce! I would recommend that you give a tutorial on how to set up your own webring, because this rocks!

hello, i really enjoy your choice of colors and fonts for your page! very easy on the eyes and nice to look at. i have enjoyed poking around your site, thank you for the time and effort to make it and share with the world. i am still learning about webrings and guestbooks, i hope to have both involved with my own site one day!

Hi!!! I am SO happy to have found this place!! I yearn for the 90s, I yearn for those better times, and this is the closest thing to time travel and I LOVE it! THIS is the true glory of the internet! Webrings are the thing! Guestbooks! I'm so grateful to you and everyone else who worked on these! Soon, I, too will make some cool website and join you all! :-)
Until then, THANK YOU!!

this is cool!! so glad there is an anti ai webring, i hate it with a passion. We should be celebrating human made works!!

Love your website, tanning rat hides is the best, done many

Nice site you got there! I liked the simple design, and I am especially glad NoAI Webring exists (which I advertised on the Blue Pages because the initiative resonates with a lot of old web creators), since I am in disinterest of AI (to the point I even made an entry for our school pub's halloween special, feel free to look it up), and I guess it's pretty nice to have a community of like-minded people of the same anti-AI sentiment.

HIII!! I rlly like your website. it's super simple and cool(in a good way). (^w^)

Thanks for adding my website to the NoAI webring! I didn't expect to find such a treasure trove of content here! I feel like I could spend an eternity looking at everything, it truly feels like a museum in the best way possible! I really love how much archival work you're doing for the world, and your site has allowed me to discover works of art and gizmos I never would've found if this website didn't exist! My favorite page here is the collection of uncommon sounds, I had a joy closing my eyes and imagining the skaters whizzing by me on the ice. I will be back many times to explore the wonders of this site, and I'll make sure to add your button on my personal site so I can bring others here too! Thank you for everything you do and all you bring to the internet.

Hello.
I cannot find your email so... I merged my websites together thus Explicit MiaQc Archive is now an invalid address. If you wish to remove it from the webring.
MiaQc

Uhhhhhh I’m gonna make a site on neocities as soon as I teach myself html and css lole

nice site

Love your website and your writings :)

Here following a stochastic webring cascade ^>^

Hello to all guestbook mates!

Thank you so much for signing my site into the No AI Webring! I hope your day is going well. See you around!

Like some others here I discovered this via the No AI webring you set up. Wanted to take the time while here to say that your writing is lovely! Hope your New Year is going well so far. :)

love this site, greetings from Austria

i would eat this website but it's too beautiful

amazin :3

love this site, keep it up. :3

came across this from a cassette focused webpage, I really love this site and the webrings you're a part of

Came from the no AI webring. Love your art!

brand new to making websites adn i think its so cool how much community there still is. everyone acts like stuff like this is dead, but no, its still got a heartbeat and thats so cool!

I have no idea how I came here, but you have a cool website!

Found my way here by way of the mighty booth crimps, wanted to say what a wholesome break from the attention stealing, time monopolising mainstream media platforms. I’m from a time where websites like this were not the norm and to find out they ever existed, and in fact still do, is like finding a fun time cache. Lovely stuff, keep it up

i found your site on a neocities webring during my first foray into exploring what personal websites these days look like. your site is so compelling! i love reading about the history of it and all of the little archvies you've kept and uploaded here. it really makes me want to start figuring out how to create my own website :)

i've never seen money origami before :O

very neat site!

When will the old link scraping project return? It has been dead for what feels like literally forever. I think that it will update AFTER gta 6 comes out. And then gets called woke by every single person ever. yup.

Have a nice day frends :)

hi o/, i really like your sites asethetic. its so smooth and clean.

thanks for the translation of legasov's tapes you've saved my english project

¡me encanta! gracias por crear este guestbook, me pareció una alternativa segura para mí y mis usuarios.

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Dear Baccyflap, I have great respect for your philosophy towards the web an artificial intelligence. Thank you for contributing to what the web should be; that is, a network wherein creative contribution and true interactivity with both the capabilities of computers and the web trump the anathema that is the lazy, money-driven, lifeless web of this decade. Websites such as your own elucidate how necessary the restoration of human creativity and personality in the modern web is.

Big fan of your site!

Thanks for keeping the GenLissa webring alive!

a kitten leaves a paw footprint on this guestbook. try to erase? Y/N

what's the point of the no-AI webring if people on there have AI on their websites lol

much love

this is what ive been waiting for. noooo moreeeee ai

B

Thanks for having me on the No AI webring! Best wishes to everyone here!

free palestine!

The rough texture band on top is for striking matches. I treasure mine!

Hey, when webring 30 happens we should all celebrate by hosting a party. Only on the guestbook section though, okay?

Heeey, I love your site! your style is so cool and minimal, crazy this site has been running for 20 years!
anyway it's getting late, bye

Hey nice page man got on here because I wanted to make a leather jacket maybe out of rat hides who knows
Love the crimp section an unexpected find

oh this guestbook is really cool! i might download the code and use it on my site since 123guestbook is shutting down soon :(

no it does not. i wanted to leave a cat here.

anyway, https://cataas.com/cat

i wonder if this lets me embed things

hi

Just saying hi - you’re got a cool section on preservation of natural objects

aaaaah this is a really cool place! i just learned about webrings and joined a couple myself - which is how i ended up here. (but which ones? hm... >_>) they've made the internet fun again and i wanted to stop in and say thanks for being a part of that.

i found a link on reddit to your guide on how to preserve natural materials from the ocean, but the page seems to be gone. i wouldve loved to read it, i have a crab shell i want to preserve. its okay though! free palestine, much love

i came because i saw that there was a visit to the Organic Shelter blog from this site. thanks for visiting! you're welcome to scrape and republish Organic Shelter blog essays. as long as Robert Cinque is credited! check out this scale of wealth infographic. i think that you'd like to add to the museum:

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3

This is great and awsome:0

You should get your "To the People of the Internet" article listed on Rachel Kwon's big list of Internet manifestos if you haven't already.

https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/

i just found this glorious website and love your voice. 2 cool

heelo

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Hey, thanks for introducing me to Nonbot.org! I just signed the pledge. Reminds me of https://notbyai.fyi/

Love love love your site (I found you when I backlink checked my own website and found out that I was part of the Internet contained in your cat.

I know this gets said a lot but nice website! :D

hi friend :3

No time in massage?

returning once again..

thanks for supporting palestine and for the excellent skull resources! you rock homie

thanks for the tips on preserving skulls

found your site via searching for guides to fossil preservation years ago, checked it again today & heartened by the title update. free palestine o7

love the pipes. you have a beautiful site, such a clean design!

cash money website. very cool

welcome to the geekring! You can add the ring links to your page with the code provided (303)

Boonana

blip!!

Olá! Eu gostei muito da sua dica para o reparo e uso do cachimbo.

Cool site. now I need a baccyflap

Love your site! I love stumbling upon little gems like these :')

Love the way you write.

your tips for decomposing animals was super helpful!! bookmarked it for sure thanks rmf :)

Hi! I found your elvis page which I used as a reference to write my own little surfraw thing, because docs are hard to find for that thing.

Might keep on reading the other things.

Thank you!

Bye bye
Adrien

Hi I have just recently acquired the Texas Instruments Ti-51-111.not sure if it works yet and I have the manual to go with it..is going off assumption it does work and they worth much and thank you .s.aspinall ..and ywed site is cool ..

I bought my Parker Baccyflap in 1970 from my favourite tobacconist's shop in my home, Vancouver, BC, Canada. It came in the Parker box you have in your lovely photos. You may be correct about them being distributed to British Commonwealth countries, as I went to uni at UCBerkeley and UCSanta Cruz, never having seen one in the many tobacconists in the Greater Bay Area at the time, (71-77), nor in any of the many tobacconists I visited during travels in the US. There were enough of them amongst the members of the Vancouver Pipe Club that a member's wife kindly made up soft, fitted drawstring pouches for them, one of which is where mine now happily resides. A constant pocket companion whilst backpacking, fishing and sailing, although caution on my part meant it remained in camp, or deep and safe in a haul sack when climbing, it is always a pleasure to use, (as intended, for pipe tobacco), and handle. Thank you kindly for your efforts. They are appreciated. -d-

So glad that I found this post. Thanks,

thank u for the instructions on how to decompose dead animals! i found a fox's leg the other day and i want to get the bones from it so this was very helpful :)

rmf,
thank you for the tips and instructions on how to preserve dead things! i have amassed quite a large bone collection.

Thank you, thank you, a dozen hundred times thank you for your easy to follow pipe tenon repair article. I feel confident in attempting a repair on my own that I have never tried before. Also can't help but echo your recollections of the emerging internet as an altogether more wholesome place.

currently preserving a large orange crawfish thanks to your article! going to suspend him on a chain and wear around.

Hmmm fascinating..! wow... Thank you for this page

Hello. Was wondering if you do actual repairs or know of someone who does? I have two players that are in need of repair.

Hey RMF, thanks a lot for this great website, I enjoyed the tips about tape decks.
I completely adore this traditional html+php approach to the web, let's hope websites like yours will remain here for long.

(Got one just like this but I'm rearranging my hosting atm).

regards

Your website inspires, and drives forward hope for a more elegant age, where one visits with things designed from love, creativity, and passion, not from A-B testing, streamlined purchasing, and optimized keywords. Thank you, sincerely.

In a world of forums and facebook and instagram, I'd almost forgotten that there are still people out there who just carry on regardless, doing things their own way, just because they want to.

Keep up the good work and thanks for the tape repair tips... I wish I had found it sooner, it would have saved me learning all that stuff the hard way!

I found your site quite by accident and it was very helpful. I was looking into how to preserve some pieces for some jewelry and some other artwork. Much appreciate your knowledge.

this site is like stepping out of the loud, screaming color of a pop art museum into a large white room with a very, very comfortable chair at its center. i discovered this place by complete chance, but i get the feeling i'll be back for a break whenever the chaos of the internet beyond becomes too much to handle.

You have a beautiful website.

Also thank you for your article on cassette deck repair. Finding it was a turning point on my own repair project and now I can finally listen to my cassettes with a good sound.

Stay well!

Very interesting blog! I really enjoyed reading it so thank you. My better half recently acquired mine for my birthday for the princely sum of £25. It’s the mottled version but a very dark reddish brown. I absolutely love it! Very tactile and does exactly what it should in terms of keeping ones tobacco fresh. Someone told me that the knurled top surface had two intentions. To provide some grip to open and to strike those old-fashioned red non-safety matches on. How true the latter is I don’t know. No sign of using it to light matches on mine. It’s pristine. I guess these things are pretty indestructible unless you drop it from height onto concrete! Once again - a great read! Thanks!

Thank you for this. I really enjoyed your website.

Very interesting read. Appreciate this site

Thank you for your delligence at keeping alive words from a prophetic learned man. I appreciate your efforts.

Thank you for the weather kwgt widget.

I was looking also for the RSS reader, but the file you linked doubled up on the weather widget. Thank you!

Bought a Parker plastic Baccyflap in a little tobaconnist in Yeovil in 1990. It traveled quite a bit of the world with a Falcon pipe and me for a decade. Thought I had lost it until recently when it turned up in a box of bric-a-brac from the loft. Some tobacco in it too. Kentucky Bird, I believe!

Another Baccyflap landed safely with me here in cold wet wintery Cyprus today courtesy of George my brother in law back in the bright and sunny UK. George found the pipe smokers 'Holy Grail' of the Baccyflap in a box of oddments at a recent car boot sale and recognised it for what it was after remembering seeing the one I already have at a Christmas family get together. Mindful of what I paid for the Baccyflap and prices currently being charged he purchased it for the princely sum of 20 Pence (100 Pence = 01 UK£). The Baccyflap is complete without damage, it has cleaned up very well and retained it's waterproof seal after testing in a bucket of water. Many thanks George, that's 20 Pence + more than a couple of beers that I owe you when we meet in the summer.

I found your site after looking up info about, well, the Baccy Flap. Too bad they arent made anymore!

Regardless, I too miss the days of personal websites and how relatable the web used to be when I was a kid, before it was all so thoroughly commercialized and pasteurized. So, yeah, thanks!

I bought a Baccyflap from a thrift shop today, I liked its shape , size and that it was made of Bakelite but didn't know what it was used for, a google found me your interesting article which I found enjoyable and solved my mystery. Thank you from New Zealand!

I collect bakelite and also vanity items so was delighted to find a clutch bag, made by Wunup, that incorporates a Wunup cigarette case in such a way that the owner could access the cigarettes without opening the clutch bag! Thought you'd like to know about it in case you hadn't come across one before. Kind regards Hannah

actually the counter of el_120 can be used for cou ting objects and multiplying at the end with the value (presuming they are of the same alue like quarter coins for example?. Nice site!

My 'new' Wunup Baccyflap arrived safe and sound in Cyprus from the UK some days ago and really does look new, no scratches chips or splits and complete with the inner ring which can be removed, and often lost, for cleaning. Threads are undamaged and the Baccyflap withstood a leak test when immersed in a bowl of water. Very many thanks to the UK seller.

Observations.
Exactly as I remember my Grandfathers Baccyflap from the 1950's which I broke.
Four (4) start Whitworth thread which accounts for the quarter (1/4) turn to open or close which would have been difficult to manufacture accurately in Bakelite.
Tobacco stored in the Baccyflap remains remarkably unaffected by the early summer heat and humidity of Cyprus, currently 32'c with very high humidity following thunder storms and heavy rain. Easily fits in a trouser pocket without being uncomfortable or creating an unseemly bulge.

Observations of Others.
Everyone, pipe smoker or not who see's the Baccyflap likes it and yes they do want to pick it up and play with it.
My Tobacconist, now in his late seventies knew what it was straight away and surprised me by saying that there were still plenty of Baccyflaps in use here especially amongst the older pipe smokers. Most Baccyflaps apparently arrived here through the NAAFI shops of the British Military in the 1940's/50's, and were supposedly only on sale to the military, but this was Cyprus and things didn't quite work like that then. The tobacconist went on to tell me that his father who'd had the business before him managed to order two boxes of twenty four from the UK which sold out very quickly because of their unique tobacco preservative qualities but was disappointed with the next delivery which was the Parker plastic version that had been already discovered not to be as good by NAAFI buyers.

Problems Encountered.
Police security officers at Larnaca airport were at first very suspicious of the Baccyflap when I went through the security gate on my way into work. Easily resolved but airline passengers may want to think twice about flying with a Baccyflap if they don't want the hassle of explaining what it is and perhaps being delayed by the process.
A bigger problem is that I now want another Baccyflap for my alternative smoke. Where will it all end?

Wunup of course, not Win Up.
Most probably not reading the instructions before lift off caused the Oxfordshire field disaster of the 1950's.
Good to see that the intervening sixty odd years haven't changed me!

Tonight I won a Win Up Baccyflap and will now spend an anxious couple of days waiting for it to arrive in Cyprus by airmail from the UK.

Your BF story inspired me to seek and purchase my own BF in atonement for smashing to pieces my late pipe smoking Grandfathers BF in an Oxfordshire UK field during the 1950's while testing the theory of spacecraft flight. Fortunately I had a Dan Dare Ray Gun to protect me from his wrath but I have the very strong conviction that he never quite forgave me. Now my G/Father can return from infinity and claim what is
rightfully his or wait for me to bring the BF with me when I join him on life's last great adventure.

The assembled horde demand that this Blog be reopened!

Just recently won an e-bay auction for my Baccyflap that I received over a month ago and would like to report that I am happy as a pig-in-a-puddle... :)))
It's in barely-used conition. Wow!!!
This little'pocket edition' brown flying saucer is sooo cool, I find myself constantly holding it in my hands -- it's that addictive!

And then I open it and take a whiff of my most aromatic tobacco I store in it. It holds the aroma perfectly and seems like it's really airtight for just a 1/4 turn to close it.

Thanx 4 your informative site and great pix.
:)

I got bored while doing homework and found this site by accident. I better get back to my homework, but thanks for the distraction.

I miss You.
jane

wel leuk om mee te maken

skik

Love me some boosh :)

I like to boogy

Dear Baccyflap Sir !!, I have a baccyflap for sale, bakelite same as the one in the photo.... Would you be interested in buying it? Yours sincerely Bella Mullen

Robot man can't you help me find my way?

Question. How do we know that Baacyflaps actually existed in the past? I bought mine off eBay and it was shipped from England. A friend of mine mentioned that it looked practically brand new. Which it does. And it doesn't actually say "Bakelite" anywhere on the thing. I can't tell Bakelite from other plastic. Perhaps someone created an underground mythos to sell a little gizmo they produced for a buck? Am I paranoid?
Flint[at]liddonlaw[dot]com.

Same longing. Nice page.

Well! I thought it time to give your website a try. The blog is amusing! I hope you are considering to post frequently again.

Love,
M