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    From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 5 02:00:51 2024
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    Another part of Web 1.0 has vanished. This time it's the Sonnet Central
    poetry site. Sonnet Central has been around since at the 1990s, and was
    one of the best sites for poetry. When I started up Penny's Poetry
    Pages, I tilled out its "sonneteer" category by using the names
    represented at Sonnet Central.

    I intend to do what I can to keep the information on the site alive. I'm
    in the process of convrting all the links to Sonnet Cetral on ppb to
    links to the Wayback Machine copies.

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  • From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to W.Dockery on Mon Aug 5 17:48:38 2024
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    On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 3:36:28 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

    On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 2:00:50 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    Another part of Web 1.0 has vanished. This time it's the Sonnet Central
    poetry site. Sonnet Central has been around since at the 1990s, and was
    one of the best sites for poetry. When I started up Penny's Poetry
    Pages, I [f]illed out its "sonneteer" category by using the names
    represented at Sonnet Central.

    I intend to do what I can to keep the information on the site alive. I'm
    in the process of converting all the links to Sonnet Cetral on ppb to
    links to the Wayback Machine copies.

    And so it goes.

    Well, it's done; took me two days to find and change all the links.
    There were just over 50 in all, I didn't keep count, but at least half
    linked to original PPP articles, meaning that those poets had never made
    it to Wikipedia and I'd probably never have heard of them without Sonnet Central.

    Sadly, there's no PPP article on the Sonnet Central site itself - and
    given that it's now gone, little chance I could find enough information
    to write one. But at least the Wayback Machine has preserved it, and
    those 50 pages can still be read via PPP.

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  • From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to General-Zod on Mon Aug 5 23:05:33 2024
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    On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 20:06:57 +0000, General-Zod wrote:

    On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 17:48:36 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 3:36:28 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:

    On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 2:00:50 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    Another part of Web 1.0 has vanished. This time it's the Sonnet Central >>>> poetry site. Sonnet Central has been around since at the 1990s, and was >>>> one of the best sites for poetry. When I started up Penny's Poetry
    Pages, I [f]illed out its "sonneteer" category by using the names
    represented at Sonnet Central.

    I intend to do what I can to keep the information on the site alive. I'm >>>> in the process of converting all the links to Sonnet Cetral on ppb to
    links to the Wayback Machine copies.

    And so it goes.

    Well, it's done; took me two days to find and change all the links.
    There were just over 50 in all, I didn't keep count, but at least half
    linked to original PPP articles, meaning that those poets had never made
    it to Wikipedia and I'd probably never have heard of them without Sonnet
    Central.

    Sadly, there's no PPP article on the Sonnet Central site itself - and
    given that it's now gone, little chance I could find enough information
    to write one. But at least the Wayback Machine has preserved it, and
    those 50 pages can still be read via PPP.

    Outstanding... the internet archive has snapshots of the sonnet
    website...?

    They may not have everything, but they did have snapshots of the 50
    pages I'd linked. And some of those go back to 2000, leading me to think
    that the whole site has been crawled and shot more than once. So I think
    it's all there, though I have no idea how much of the site I don't have
    linked.

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