Websites, journals and identities

A life online · Alejandro Rivero

A map of the places where this history was written. A surviving reference can establish that a site existed even when the original page is no longer readable.

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Conjeturas on Blogia

2004–2017 · Original site

The archive runs from April 2004 to March 2017 and names Alejandro Rivero in its About page. It mixes physics with history, folklore, politics and computing; it remained separate from El último hovercraft.

The other Blogia journal

2004 · Original site

Two entries survive: the opening on 12 April and the Esau physics-prize rules on 19 May. The latter names Alejandro Rivero and gives the sol.unizar.es and dftuz.unizar.es addresses. This is a historical announcement, not a statement that the competition is currently open.

Libertonia

2003–2013, selected surviving posts · Original site

A diary and contributions to the escomposlinux community, explicitly linked from my own pages. Open hardware and Transcript Search are two recovered examples; the diary also links back to Conjeturas.

An English-language diary on Kuro5hin

Documented in April 2004 · Documented site; posts to recover

The first Conjeturas post explicitly identifies this as my English-language diary and says it had seen little use. Individual posts have not yet been recovered here.

The original address, http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/arivero/diary, now leads to a parked domain rather than the diary. It is retained here as an archival search key, not a recommended destination.

The Barrapunto journal

References in 2005 and 2008 · Surviving references

Sinologic preserves a quotation of a Shell on Sockets experiment attributed to arivero's journal; a 2008 Conjeturas post also links a specific Barrapunto journal entry. These references survive even though the original entries still need recovery.

El último hovercraft at Ciberpunk

2005–2006 · Archived site

The first Hovercraft blog, already represented in the chronology, belongs alongside the two Blogia sites and the community diaries. In September 2026 the whole blog was republished here from a 2014 Warrick recovery of the Wayback captures: 139 posts from 1 October 2005 to 21 July 2006, with their monthly archives and images. Home-built gadgets and energy experiments, free hardware and BOINC, physics asides, and Spanish current affairs of those months; a dozen “borrador” posts all dated 8 July 2006 were swept in from the drafts folder at the end. One post, Progreso por ferrocarril, regreso por carretera, was later reposted on the current blog. The companion “indianopedia” wiki of the Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas, captured under the same hostname, is other people’s work and is left to the Wayback Machine.

El último hovercraft, segunda época / Incidencias

2012 onward · Original site and mirror

The current-domain blog, now headed Incidencias, and its static GitHub mirror. Older links also use alejandro.rivero.nom.es, as the 2012 Conjeturas cross-reference shows.

MobileRead

Joined October 2005 · Public forum threads

The arivero account's visible posts document Librie and iLiad development. Public threads are more useful than the member page, which asks visitors to sign in.

SlideShare

Undated profile; 2014 talk · Public profile

A presentation profile identifying BIFI and linking the old ~rivero homepage, with a Koide2014talk slide deck.

LinkedIn

Public profile and 2017 article · Public profile

The profile links both the university homepage and personal blog, records the Furnivall crowdthinking project, and includes a 2017 notice about a BIFI technical vacancy.

Academia.edu

Public research profile · Public profile

Another research landing page under the University of Zaragoza, complementing the arXiv, INSPIRE and ResearchGate indexes.

Jannos on GeoCities

Account opened 1998-05-05 · Surviving mirror

The surviving homepage gives its registration date, signs itself Jannos, and directs readers to my ~rivero research and econophysics pages. The Restorativland mirror (also reached through the older Reocities links) preserves its Kropotkin edition and essays on alchemy, stars and memory; an inner page also signs Alejandro Rivero.

Mailing lists and newsgroups, 1994–2004

From the headers of the mail that survives on an old workstation; membership dates are the first and last message seen

Lists I posted to: MEMORIA, on mythology, folklore and oral tradition, hosted at MakeList and then eGroups (1997–1998, 37 posts of mine among 413); FEEL, the Foro Electrónico Escuela Libre of Zaragoza (1997–2001, 18 posts); the World Systems Network at Colorado (1998, 6 posts in the “unequal exchange” thread); the division list at Telefónica I+D (1997–1998, 74 posts). Lists I read: RA-L, Research on Anarchism, at Montpellier (1997–1998); AACTE on RedIRIS (1998); brin-l, the David Brin list, at Cornell in 1997 and again at mccmedia.com from 17 September 2002; the Internet Society forum and membership lists and APEDANICA (1998); ELSNET (1998); netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and Mozilla[es] (1998); Elsevier’s CONTENTS-Alert for mathematical physics (1994–1995), the earliest subscription that survives; finance-and-physics on JISCMail (2001–2003); alchemy lists on eListas and YahooGroups (2002–2003).

Lists I ran on the department server: flexion@dftuz.unizar.es, the announcement list of the Flexion archive, taking subscriptions from 17 September 1996 and still answering on 24 April 2004; and q-symm95@dftuz.unizar.es, the alias of the Quantum Symmetries 1995 meeting, still receiving summer-school announcements in March 1998.

My own posts to MEMORIA, FEEL, the World Systems Network and RA-L are republished at Posts to mailing lists, 1997–1998.

Usenet: the chronology lists the posts that were catalogued at the time; the tin newsreader’s record adds two articles of April 1997, to es.ciencia and to six advocacy groups.