Forum: Lost Stories

Someone was asking about the same work on webnovel.com but I don't understand how that site works - when it says "2 answers" how to look at them.

I did some poking around with Google. and some old links.

Webnovel has a forum with a question about "Winter Wonderland Surprises," but the answer is clearly AI generated. Searching the site by author finds nothing, by titles finds everything with any of the three words. So that's a dead end.

I did find a reference to a 2004 LiveJournal post that mentioned the story going up on SOL, then linked to https://storiesonline.net/library/st_get.php?id=34186&c=27978, which says the story was deleted by author's request on 24 May 2009.

I', not experienced enough with Wayback machine to know how to/ if you can find an archive without a specific link, but it may be possible.

For a site like AssTr, you could probably start off by finding the index - first directly and then ancient Wayback copies (not as easy now the site has vanished completely) which would then point you at the url you would need.
I have even used that technique on SOL but only when I wanted to see when a subsequently deleted story had been uploaded, and what its number had been. The SOL stories themselves cannot be retrieved using Wayback.

Some of the wayback machine copies of asstr are deeper than others; if you can navigate to authors (assuming they made a page there) you have a pretty good chance of retrieving their stories. You may have to move to a different date a few times to find a deep archive.

Thank you for the information. I'm not the person looking for the story, I was just doing research, but hopefully the person who is will see your answer. However, if the actually SOL stories aren't on Wayback then it's probably a moot point.