AOL, where ThePulp.Net began as .Pulp many years ago, has pulled the plug on its Web hosting service for members as of Oct. 31. What does that mean for pulp fans? A lot.
Links to these and other AOL-based sites are still on various pages at ThePulp.Net, but will be disappearing over the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, if you had a pulp-related site on AOL, please drop us a note with details of what will become of it.
We’d really hate to see these sites gone forever.
– William
This is so sad…
When I first started interacting with the internet (seemingly ages ago), I thought that it would further kill and bury the pulp-era. I quickly found out through many of those sites now closing that if anything, the internet was revitalizing pulp for a new generation. The 86th Floor, especially, made me grin with the knowledge that Doc was still alive and kicking, somewhere.
I’ll miss those sites… 🙁
Hi, Don,
Fear not. Just got an e-mail from Chris Kalb regarding the 86th Floor and his other pulp sites. He’s planning to move them to a new server. As soon as I get the URLs, I’ll update the links to his sites.
Hopefully some of the others will do the same.
It’s always a shame when pulp sites disappear. The last big extinction was following the Conde Nast lawyer letters several years ago.