11.23.08

No more AOL Hometown / Member pages.

Posted in Links at 11:10 am by Pisces6

I forget exactly how I found this out, but apparently AOL took down all the hometown and member pages (and journals) on October 31, 2008. o_O; It doesn’t affect me a whole lot, but that means a few webpages I do know are probably gone forever unless the owners decide to re-upload them else where. What pages?

Well, there was Juuhachigou’s Place of Being for DBSZ. And the other for me was Jendra’s Crystal Keep, the author of Sailor Moon Universal. (A really old fanfic that’s probably dated at this point.) There may be more that I used to know, but these 2 are the ones I really remember. It’s probably because I was in touch with their creators (DBSZ is co-authored) at one point in my life.

I think the website for DBSZ may come back. However, I think Crystal Keep is gone forever. The author went MIA a long time ago, and I haven’t heard from her since. :/

I think some people are pissed. The webhosting came with people’s subscription to AOL as an ISP, so it makes you wonder why they aren’t bring the subscription price down when they aren’t doing web hosting anymore. Then again… /shrugs Could be AOL is in some sort of financial trouble. :|

Man, I hate it when websites I used to visit constantly go offline. Oh well, no such thing as a free lunch. :/

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