Diogenes the Cynic

I go there now and it's some kind of devotional clearinghouse. Did Kirby lose the domain name or something? Did it move somewhere else? Is all that material just lost?

I'm going to be bummed if it's permanently gone. I loved that site.

lpetrich

I think that he let it lapse or that he moved on to other things. He has been rather erratic, for lack of a better word, over the last several months.

Porky Pine

Wow! Haven't heard that name since I used to visit alt.atheism.

Diogenes the Cynic

That's too bad. The internet really needs a resource like that.

spamandham

Hmmm. I think you're right. That stinks. Would IIDB consider hosting the library?

Diogenes the Cynic

I don't know, but I think it would be a great idea if Peter still has it all somewhere.

lpetrich

I tried getting his site http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com -- it's a dead site.

And http://www.earlychristianwritings.com has indeed been taken over by someone else.

I'll see if I can contact him. If I can, I'll ask about his sites.

Toto

www.christianorigins is still there. Peter's latest news is on his blog, darklingthrush. In April, he posted about going off his meds and going back to school with a major in biochemistry.

Earlier, he had blogged about financial problems. I wonder if he sold the domain name?

lpetrich

Peter Kirby has requested that I post this message on his behalf:

I hope that this message is appreciated by people who know me or my
past work.

Since it opened in 2001, the website has been widely regarded as being
a decent place to jump around the documents of the first two centuries
and get links to translations, research, and such.

This month I let the domain name expire. While this wasn't completely
intentional, I am of course culpable. A domain name in the Internet
age is more than just a resolution of squiggles into a four byte IP
address. Losing it represents a financial opportunity lost, but more
importantly, a great inconvenience to all who have extensively linked
to the site or referred to it regularly. The links number in the
thousands. The users included teachers and students.

I do have an interest in allowing the material created for ECW and for
EJW to live on in another form, under another person's or
organization's guiding hand. I cannot offer the domain name (which,
again in the Internet age, is probably worth more than the text) but I
can offer my backing of whatever project gets the site as "spiritual
successor" to the venerable (again, in the Internet age) Early
Christian Writings. I can also offer all distribution rights to the
text itself, to the extent that I am the copyright holder.

If you have any comments about this that you want to make quite
certain I see, send a message to peterkirby (at gmail.com) and, of
course, "discuss amongst yourselves," as Mike Myers would say.

sincerely,
Peter Kirby

thedistillers

His message doesn't explain anything at all. :huh: We're just as much in dark as to why he gave up such a valuable website.