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Wow. It is 2022. FXPAL closed 2 years ago. The website had the message, “Notice: FX Palo Alto Laboratory will be closing. All Research and related operations will cease as of June 30, 2020.” That stayed up until the server got turned off in July of 2021.
The “Parent Company” let the domain fxpal.com expire in April of 2022. I had had a backorder on the name for some time, but once it went up for auction, it quickly got silly. $11k silly. The new owner got their site up earlier this month. I was pretty sure it would be a Foreign eXchange / ForEx site, and it is – Foreign Exchange Pal or FXPal. Sorry, Tony, it wasn’t actually another fan site for director/animator George Pal. Once it went up, I guess I felt it was a nice terminus – once someone else takes over your URL, you are gone.
But not forgotten. I thought I should pull an old off-site backup out of cold storage (really a USB stick that had it backed up for some reason) and put the blog back up. Which it now is. Since the old PalBlog was pretty simple, it wasn’t too hard to bring up. One thing I didn’t do is update links in all the blog posts – this is an exercise for a later date.
If you are looking for information about FX Palo Alto Laboratory, this is as close as you are going to get in one place. There are some sites where people have put up old abstracts and videos, too. The heart of the lab was the people, and you can see all the wonderful things still being accomplished by those who worked for and with FXPAL, if you do a bit of searching. This site is up, for now, at https://blog.fxpal.net , but that may change. I likely will remove lots of old blog posts, but I hate to remove anything Gene wrote. There is still a site at http://palweb911.com which the Support Team used to let people know why they couldn’t VPN when connectivity failed.
I am reluctant to put up the old main FXPAL web site. I suspect “Parent Company” would object, and there is a lot more infrastructure I would have to re-create to get it working. And of course, first I’d have to track down a complete backup.