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From: George J. Dance@novabbs.com (George J. Dance)
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Subject: Re: Sonnet Central RIP
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 17:48:38 +0000
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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.