Tales of Yore: H.O.P.E./HOPEorg

Sneak: While fiddling with archive practice, I was going through the archives of HOPEorg, a little "alternatives" coalition group that I saw ads for in Kinship magazine from 2001. I just needed to check how bad the linkrot was, so I started clicking. How many pages could there be on a Web 1.0 site, I thought?

Here I am hours later, feeling like I sank to the bottom of a terrible well. So, here's a little thing about H.O.P.E. I feel like two quotes sums it up pretty well:

"Our purpose is to improve things for alternatives, by creating and providing resources for them, networking with both alternatives and mainstream society to improve relations, and to keep an eye out and get involved in activism when it is needed" (H.O.P.E., 2001, April 22b, paragraph 3).

"Below is a list of offenses which are against HOPE policy. [...]
5.) Failure to Destroy Paperwork
7.) Making Public Statements About HOPE without Authorization
14.) Unnecessary/Excessive Use of Violence
39.) Endangerment of Life" (2000, April 26)

( Why are we like this? I know why, but why? )