I used to do that in the '90s before I had dial-up at home. However I didn't save from fanfiction.net in those days. IIRC ff.net didn't get started until 1998 and I got dial-up around then.
In any case, before FF.net people used to post on their own private web pages, with a few fan sites hosting multiple authors. I think FF.net was the first to let users upload their own stuff.
However, those private websites, or most archive sites that required the authors to e-mail the webmaster for posting the fics had the chapters easily downloaded from an index page.
I'd just use that.
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On 9/30/2022 1:46 PM, Marcel wrote:
Me too. Save to floppies at school, get home transfer to my massive 10 Gb hard drive and post up on my geocities site.
Copy paste individual chapters 1 at a time for several hundred stories over the course of YEARS before found first Downloader site and program. Have files dating back to 90s doing this.
On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, 8:53 am Katy Todd, <ktlynn687@... <mailto:ktlynn687@...>> wrote:
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Yup. It's why I've been archiving for 20 years. It's a fun
project!!! Frustrating lately with the Fanfiction net stuff, but I'm
so happy a few people are working on downloaders still. I remember
the days of grabbing by hand. Each chapter, putting it all together
in notepad. Actually I used to use word. Yikes. And a Braille Note!
Katy
Katy
