Internet is not static, news at 11
Aug. 14th, 2014 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherwizardSo I'm going through my bookmarks, looking to re-read old favorites. Only they aren't up.
Currently I'm on a Highlander kick. Problem is that the show ended more than a decade ago, and most of the fanfiction was written in the early days of internet fandom. So I'm trawling through mailing list archives, individual author sites, and brushing off my dusty Archive.org skills. But some people just aren't online now, despite all I can do.
Sandra McDonald, Sleeps with Coyotes, Dargelos are all offline. Sylvia Volk, Tessa Rae and the taterville.com crowd are slowly putting their stuff up on Archive Of Our Own (very slowly).
There's just no way to get some of this stuff anymore, and the stuff that is still available is often an uphill battle. So I'm resorting to ficsearch communities and asking friends. This is - likely - years of my life, just kind of gone up in smoke. Darn it.
TL;DR I'm donating to both Archive Of Our Own and Archive.org this month. Thank goodness for volunteers who are willing to save the internet in case someone needs it. If anyone has any fics by Cicequi/Sleeps with Coyotes, I'd love it if you could let me know?
Currently I'm on a Highlander kick. Problem is that the show ended more than a decade ago, and most of the fanfiction was written in the early days of internet fandom. So I'm trawling through mailing list archives, individual author sites, and brushing off my dusty Archive.org skills. But some people just aren't online now, despite all I can do.
Sandra McDonald, Sleeps with Coyotes, Dargelos are all offline. Sylvia Volk, Tessa Rae and the taterville.com crowd are slowly putting their stuff up on Archive Of Our Own (very slowly).
There's just no way to get some of this stuff anymore, and the stuff that is still available is often an uphill battle. So I'm resorting to ficsearch communities and asking friends. This is - likely - years of my life, just kind of gone up in smoke. Darn it.
TL;DR I'm donating to both Archive Of Our Own and Archive.org this month. Thank goodness for volunteers who are willing to save the internet in case someone needs it. If anyone has any fics by Cicequi/Sleeps with Coyotes, I'd love it if you could let me know?
