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Fannish Friday: Dearly departed websites
Apr. 11th, 2025 09:56 amSince Tumblr seems to be on its way to a slow and agonizing death and I will miss it terribly, I am reminding myself that many a website has gone the way of the dodo and we're all still here, having fun and making art and friends and shitposts.
My own personal Lirazel's Rule of the Internet is: anything you want to last will surely disappear, and everything you most want to disappear will stay findable forever.
Anyway, tell me about a site that has disappeared that you think is a real loss to the either the internet at large or yourself in particular!
Obviously, Livejournal pre-Russian-overlords belongs on this list, as do specific LJ communities that we lost in various strikethroughs (I am ridiculous, so I most sorely feel the loss of the original fandom_wank).
Two sites that I personally don't feel the need to revisit but am sad are no longer out there are Checkmated (a Ron/Hermione archive where you had to apply to get your fic accepted and mine was and I was SO proud) and All About Spike (a Spike from BtVS archive). I know the fic from the latter has been saved on AO3, but it's sad to me that the site itself isn't there! You lose a lot when you can't see the original design/layout/etc.
Now, many sites are available through the Wayback Machine, which is absolutely wonderful, but many people don't know about that, there are broken links for various things, and I'm not convinced that the Internet Archive will be able to continue forever.
My own personal Lirazel's Rule of the Internet is: anything you want to last will surely disappear, and everything you most want to disappear will stay findable forever.
Anyway, tell me about a site that has disappeared that you think is a real loss to the either the internet at large or yourself in particular!
Obviously, Livejournal pre-Russian-overlords belongs on this list, as do specific LJ communities that we lost in various strikethroughs (I am ridiculous, so I most sorely feel the loss of the original fandom_wank).
Two sites that I personally don't feel the need to revisit but am sad are no longer out there are Checkmated (a Ron/Hermione archive where you had to apply to get your fic accepted and mine was and I was SO proud) and All About Spike (a Spike from BtVS archive). I know the fic from the latter has been saved on AO3, but it's sad to me that the site itself isn't there! You lose a lot when you can't see the original design/layout/etc.
Now, many sites are available through the Wayback Machine, which is absolutely wonderful, but many people don't know about that, there are broken links for various things, and I'm not convinced that the Internet Archive will be able to continue forever.
