Dear Friends,
The site on which I published the essay I wrote on Fucking Åmål five years ago, "What It's All About", has gone. The provider has discontinued its free homepage service - without telling me by the way. I only noticed it by chance. Since the page was built using the provider's web-based assembly kit, all the files are irrevocably lost. I didn't have a backup.
I decided that I will not rebuild the page. It didn't contain much more than the essay itself. The link section was terribly outdated. It seems that interest has dwindled away in recent years anyway. I received quite a few email comments in the first years of the page's existence, but not anymore in the last two or three years. So I join the many, many fanpages I have seen disappear from the web since I started roaming it for Fucking Åmål-related content in 2004.
Still. What's left are the texts I collected on the site - two or three essays besides my own, as you may remember, and some pieces of fan fiction. And I think it would be a pity if they all disappeared from the web completely. So my question is, what could I do in order to keep them available - without having to maintain my own page? I guess I could put up the fanfic pieces on fanfiction.net (but I don't have the consent of the authors), but that wouldn't be a solution for the essays. Is there something out there which is for text files what youtube is for video clips and photobucket is for pictures? Then I would simply post the links here, and that's it.
Any ideas?