Most readers will be completely unfamiliar with the site I'm about to link to, but on the odd chance that someone from Spiderweb finds themselves here, I'm posting this.
The
Pied Piper Project (archive of the Spiderweb forum) has a new site engine that runs on Drupal (much like every other site I now own).
The site has an improved parser (which, at 4 AM and under the influence of caffeine-induced megalomania, I dubbed "Mighty Parser") that can read just about any Spiderweb thread page you can throw at it. This means the really old topics from back in 2003 are now available again.
Several other topics are now available that weren't before - including TM's beloved Moniker topic (only the 35 pages older than January 2006, though; the end is gone), and the topic that announced the second archive round, PPP2. The latter was retrieved from Google cache.
The parser is currently running based on demand - a topic is not saved in the database until it is viewed at least once. However, once the search engine works, it will make sense to parse all pages bit by bit to make them searchable.