Happy April! This is not an April Fool’s joke. At some point in late Summer of 2024, the networking website “PacketLife.net” went offline. At first, maybe thinking it was a server error, days went by. Then weeks. And months. It became apparent it wasn’t coming back. No one really knows why (or at least I haven’t found why) despite Jeremy Stretch, the author, being fairly active with his NetBox project (something I intend to cover here on The IT Cave).

There was a great amount of knowledge on PacketLife.net and that can’t be lost. While it’s on the Internet Archive, we know that lately the Internet Archive has been under all sorts of attacks. I’ve taken the liberty to re-host the last available versions of the Cheat Sheets on the Cheat Sheets page here. I plan to expand the page with cheat sheets of my own at some point.

So if you’re wondering what happened to PacketLife.net, we don’t know. Jeremy hasn’t said. But at least the knowledge isn’t lost to the sands of time.