The Great AoS Library is down

[Dermott]

I've only notice today. But seems like the site had been off the web for a while

aoslibrary.heliohost.org

At least the webhost suggested a couple of reasons why it had been temporary deactivated.

And if it's inactivity I wonder if we could contact the original owner to see what can be done to restore it.

Honestly, I don't remember who was running the library in its last incarnation (they have moved servers several times during the years). I also think they were listed in the affiliate page of the Sinbad' Pack Site. But when I checked today I've noticed the link wasn't there anymore, so I suppose they noticed the disappearence before us. I wonder if maybe they have their contacts.

I'm really sad to see the library going down. I've always planned to save everything on my HD but never managed to actually do that. I did it in the past for Merlin&Calvin fanfiction webpage and when Geocities was taken down because I knew in advance. But here I kept procrastinating.

Any of you guys has by any chance saved at least the list of the stories? the archive was so huge, there were even fics written when the show was still airing and Ed Naha's outline hadn't still been published.

If we can have a list we could at least exchange the stories in private or PM as we often did with other lost fics in the past.

Anyway, as I said before the Library changed host many times, but this last version was the most complete. Unfortunately, it hasn't be saved in cache, nor on archive.org.

I've found this really old page when it was hosted on geocities (1998 circa)

web.archive.org/web/20000308025510/http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/4226/toc.html

only, the amount of stories looks small if compared to the version just taken down.


I suppose another milestone of the old fandom is gone. I feel a bit melancholy now...

[Doubar]

Oh no, that is such a shame. Sadly, apart from two or three favourite ones, I never saved any stories. Maybe we could ask the mod of the Sinbad Pack though if she knows anything.

[Firouz]

From that link you posted Dermott, I have been able to clink on a few links and open a few stories.

[Doubar]

Many of these stories (if not all) do work indeed, only they are by far not as many as the original library held. But then again, better have access to a few than to none at all.

[Dermott]

Doubar, Firouz
Right true girls, at least we still have some links avaliable. Often old pages are saved as chache on archive.org more than the most recent ones. It's a pity, but I wonder how this process of saving the pages in chache works, becuase I think some sites like ffnet for example do not allow it :/ Anyway, I'm glad we can have those couple of old stories for the memories