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Subject: Re: Sonnet Central RIP
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:46:06 +0000
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 17:48:36 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> 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.

Indeed, well put