The Site of the Nizhny Novgorod File Ring (nn-files.ru) is a Nizhny Novgorod website known from web archive snapshots since 2008. The earliest surviving snapshot was taken on 28 March 2008: the front page was titled "Home Page — Site of the Nizhny Novgorod File Ring," and the only line remaining from its content in the copy is "Welcome, Guest"[1]. Available snapshots do not show what the "file ring" actually was or how the site was organized. "Nizhny Novgorod Ring" was a colloquial term for the address space of Nizhny Novgorod internet providers connected to the traffic exchange point (IX-NN); the formal agreement on this was signed by the region's leading providers on 7 June 2004: access to resources within the ring was traditionally offered at a much lower price, or entirely free, with speeds reaching 100 Mbit/s — it was in this context that the name nn-files.ru arose.[4] The site had sections for "Site News," "Torrent Sharing," "Classifieds/Jobs," as well as a blog, a forum, a photo album, online games, a chat, a site directory, and a bulletin board; it was hosted on the uCoz service.

A mirror or affiliated resource of the site at nn-files.my1.ru existed at least as of 2010: on 29 September 2010 its photo album held eight photographs in two categories ("Flowers" and "Variety"), added by the user Admin. In December 2010 the site published news about local technology events; in particular, it carried information about the plans of one of the Nizhny Novgorod mobile operators to equip 20 buses on routes No. 26 and No. 51 with free Wi-Fi at speeds up to 14 Mbit/s per bus.[5]

In the consolidated rating of Counter.nn.ru, the site appears in the 2010–2012 slices; its best result was fourth place. A breakdown of the rating by year and the site's standing among others is given in the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating.

Sources

  1. Historical Encyclopedia of Nizhny Novgorod (archived) — "The Nizhny Novgorod Ring" is a colloquial term for the address space of Nizhny Novgorod internet providers connected to the traffic exchange point (IX-NN); the formal
  2. KP — Nizhny Novgorod (archived) — In December 2010, the Site of the Nizhny Novgorod File Ring served as a source of news about local technology events; in particular, it published informa
  1. web.archive.org — Site of the Nizhny Novgorod File Ring, web archive snapshot from 28 March 2008
  2. web.archive.org — Consolidated rating counter.nn.ru, web archive snapshot from 28 April 2010
  3. web.archive.org — Consolidated rating counter.nn.ru, web archive snapshot from 6 January 2012