Temple of Ranma's Sailor Senshi Seifuku

I just tried to link to a story at www.thekeep.org and it times out.
Is the server down or is the site gone for good?
There were a lot of old classics stored there.

I checked with WhoIs.net and the domain will expire in late 2026. It's registered to "The Sign of the Red-Headed Witch". The only non-Harry-Potter and non-fantasy RPG I can chase down that contains that title exactly is The Wizardry Consulted, a 1995 novel by Rick Cook. Wikipedia says,

Rick Cook (born 1944) is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many jokes that are hard to appreciate without having a background in systems-level programming, though the books themselves can easily be enjoyed by readers without such a background.

Now, Cook sounds very much like somebody who"d form a site dedicated to preserving fiction, and in fact, his blog says he created thekeep.org. The blog itself is at https://rickcooks.blogspot.com/ The most recent post was in 2017.

He had emergency heart surgery in 2000, and that (plus the medication) apparently stopped him right in the middle of a book. I live with a writer who has twice been stopped for a couple years that way, without the heart surgery bit. He was born in 1944, which puts him at 75 years of age. Mary Monica is 75, and her writing is sputtering at best. I'm 77. and don't do fiction any more (though I am compiling essays and writing nonfiction. And I seem to be doing some detection, because I didn't know thekeep.org existed until you mentioned it, and only had a faint memory of Rick Cook's existence. But it only took me about twenty minutes with a search engine to do the research.

So cut thekeep some slack. It may only be sleeping after a prolonged squawk. No guarantee it's dead.

The domain is still registered, but there's no guarantee about maintenance and hosting.

Apparently it was glitching, as it is back.
Sorry for that, I haven't accessed it in a while, and it was down when I tried to post a link to one of the stories there.

I visited thekeep.org and www.thekeep.org. All I really found were some old-classic foolery about secret research. I gathered there were Old Classics of other kinds there. How does one access them? It asks for a name and password, but gives no way to register.

Ellen Kuhfeld wrote:I visited thekeep.org and http://www.thekeep.org. All I really found were some old-classic foolery about secret research. I gathered there were Old Classics of other kinds there. How does one access them? It asks for a name and password, but gives no way to register.

I never got an alert about your question for some reason, and kind of forgot about this question until I was about to post the exact same thing again and saw this topic on the forum.

Apparently you have to know an existing website hosted there to find others. I usually used this link which would link to others (I think). However, TheKeep seems down again.
http://www.thekeep.org/~mike/transp.html

Just some things hosted on thekeep.org:
Transpacific Fanfiction, host to the famous "Ill Met by Starlight" and "Waters Under Earth"
https://web.archive.org/web/20200309214 ... ransp.html

Sailor Hellblazer
http://www.thekeep.org/~rpm/vertigo/sailor-hellblazer/

Nightelf's Elysium
http://web.archive.org/web/200702061729 ... anfic.html


Sailor Moon Z by Jeff Hosmar and John Biles
http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/Z/index.html

Children of an Elder God by John Biles
http://www.thekeep.org/~rpm/eva/coaeg.html

Sean Gaffney's fanfiction
http://www.thekeep.org/~sean/index.html

Bailesu's Fiction Page aka John Biles
http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/fiction.html

I don't remember these, but they are in my bookmark file
"Spotlight on... Kun-chan!"
http://www.thekeep.org/~tls/spoton06.htm

Alan Harnum's Anime Fanfiction
http://www.thekeep.org/~harnums/fanfic/index.html

Kunoichi's Ranma 1/2 Fanfiction Page
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/fanfics2.html

http://www.thekeep.org/~lara/bliss/bliss.html


As you can see, quite a bit of Sailor Moon and Ranma stuff was hosted there, including a mirror of the RAAC Archive. Hence why I was curious what happened to it. I know my list wasn't exhaustive, just what is in my bookmark file.