About a year ago I started Babylon 5, Archived, a project that intended to archive a directory of all fandom content I could find on Wayback Machine created during the time the show was originally airing. But, life, and I haven't worked on it in WAY too long.
That is such a fantastic idea! I would love something like that for my old fandoms; heck, I would really enjoy making something like that for my old fandoms, although I'm not 100% sure how I would go about finding things to link to. Do you have methods that you use to track down old sites and communities?
Well, I started out on the internet in 2004.......... at the age of 3.
Wait, for real??? Damn, and I thought I got on the computer early. (I had one from a young age too, but that was in the 90s and we didn't get internet until the early 00s). I guess that's one way to have the 00s web experience even if you were born later XD Very cool!
I got into the small web around 2022 when I wanted a place to archive my OC x Canon fanfiction that I was... frankly too embarrassed at the time to put on ao3
Ha, this is also what I'm doing with my oldest fics from 2005 onwards, which I never wanted to cross-post to AO3 xD But having them sort of placed in the context of my fandom history feels okay? Also, it's a good thing that I *didn't* have the internet around the time of my very earliest fics (I was writing them before I knew what they were) or I would have even cringier material xD
hate how social media functions these days, the hatred of its userbase, the lack of customization in pages, the inability to post whatever the heck you wish, the utter judgement... I love that I have a place away from it all.
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Date: 2024-09-01 11:32 am (UTC)That is such a fantastic idea! I would love something like that for my old fandoms; heck, I would really enjoy making something like that for my old fandoms, although I'm not 100% sure how I would go about finding things to link to. Do you have methods that you use to track down old sites and communities?
Wait, for real??? Damn, and I thought I got on the computer early. (I had one from a young age too, but that was in the 90s and we didn't get internet until the early 00s). I guess that's one way to have the 00s web experience even if you were born later XD Very cool!
Ha, this is also what I'm doing with my oldest fics from 2005 onwards, which I never wanted to cross-post to AO3 xD But having them sort of placed in the context of my fandom history feels okay? Also, it's a good thing that I *didn't* have the internet around the time of my very earliest fics (I was writing them before I knew what they were) or I would have even cringier material xD
100% this ^