There’s a lot of little things the community could probably delve into for info but never have. Notable are extremely old internet forums like UseNet. I’m gonna compile a list of interesting things I find so far, and I recommend anyone else try and see if they can find stuff on here!
I’ve just been searching keywords, but there’s also a dedicated robots group here. You can narrow searches to groups by adding something like ‘ingroup:COMP.ROBOTICS’
- CEC mention, 2002
- Mention of Animatronic How To VHS, looks like its been archived here
- Mention of animatronics website, this is archived and is a holy treasure trove of linking to other robotics sites, on cursory glance there’s nothing CEC though.
- Mention of deleted YT video featuring the Rock-Afire, only archive from 2017 is also still deleted.
(Ok for some reason some links aren’t working idk if theyre temporary pages when you search)
It seems the main site only lets you search a single word at a time, so probably at some point one of us needs to locally download whatever we can and manually search it from there (it looks like the downloadable archives are pretty giant though, but there legit might be great info hiding in there)