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LMAO at the dojo last publishing an article in 2001 and still having the 4th most articles. Welp, guess its time to go read a bunch of old tournament reports for the props and slops sections.

I don't know how accessible it is via Wayback, but MTGOTraders used to have articles. I think @nerdtothecore.com wrote for them. I wrote a couple (pretty bad) articles. I did get paid, at least, which is more than I can say for some places.

OMG I JUST SEARCHED ABE SARGENT AND ALL HIS COMPENDIUM WORK IS HERE AAAAAAHHHHHHH

Abe's stuff is golden!!

Would be nice to read old WotC articles again. Unfortunately those are all „preserved“. Could you tell me, when will this be public again?

Can I suggest adding Legit MTG from the Wayback Machine? I was looking for articles about Full Box Sealed since one of my LGS does it for the Saturday evening event during prerelease weekends and the only one I found was mentioned on an archived Reddit post and the site no longer exists. (cont'd)

Luckily someone archived it with the Wayback Machine so I was able to read about it, and now it's always a part of my prerelease weekend plans since I was going to buy a box of boosters anyway. Might as well play with them immediately. web.archive.org/web/20160510...

Hey there, format archivist here. Sounds like “Boxing League”. Thanks for linking to what you were looking for! It really helps my compendium project when other people give air to old format data!

I would love to see this turned into a ZIM file for kiwix at some point. I keep a heap of stuff on an old NAS just in case I need access without Internet

👉 github.com/openzim/zim-...

This is great! Really appreciate the time and care that went into this. I could not agree with your opening thesis more.

Thanks a lot! If you're open to it (and if you're the relevant rights-holder), I'd love to get your permission to start re-hosting the old Neutral Ground articles - happy to chat more over email, gregor@library-of-leng.com.

Hmmmmm I think all of that content still exists.

I'm only hosting writing with the permission of the original author (e.g. library-of-leng.com/articles/doj... by @thezvi.bsky.social). For everything else, you need to click through to the original host or the Internet Archive to read it.

If you're an author who'd like to make your old writing more accessible, please reach out to me here or over email: gregor@stocks-books.com. Please also let me know if you want anything corrected or removed.

Have you spoken with the Goldfish folks yet? I would be interested at the very least in having my work preserved in this fashion too.

are you also looking for things like blogposts? Would be happy to make them available in the archive ^^

This is epic. What a great resource. Thank you for doing this! So much of my foundational understanding of Magic comes from articles early in the life of Magic. I'm so glad to be able to go back and read them!

What can people do to help out?

Telling me about bugs you find or sites I'm missing is the main thing. If you happen know the owners of any of the no-longer-online sites and can convince them to let me re-host their stuff (with approval from the authors), that'd be amazing, but not holding my breath there.

I used to write for magicgatheringstrat.com back in the day. I wonder if those articles are still available? I’ll have to check the way back machine. If so, I would like to submit them. Not sure if people would want to see them, but it would be nice to have them preserved somewhere.

Internet Archive has it web.archive.org/web/20170724... so I should be able to. Added to my backlog.

@theferrett.bsky.social Aaaah, this finally let me find a little thing I've been trying to find for decades! "Pro Tour: Tinker is held in Tinker Orleans. Tinker Mindslaver Tinker, Rickard Osterberg, Tinker Tinker ban that f**king card Grim Monolith Tinker."

Thanks for including me Gregor, I appreciate you! What a great resource, written content is the bedrock that built the Magic community, so important that it's remembered and cherished.

Bennie! I remember talking strategy with you on rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

TIL you're the 6th most prolific Magic writer on the planet! I have a lot of catching up to do :)