samandjack.net
| Archive | |
|---|---|
| Name: | samandjack.net |
| Date(s): | 02 November 1998-present |
| Archivist: | anr |
| Founder: | anr, Jez (former co-archivist) |
| Type: | het fanfiction |
| Fandom: | Stargate SG-1 |
| URL: | http://www.samandjack.net |
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samandjack.net describes itself as the original Sam Carter and Jack O'Neill fanfic resource. It hosts more than 4,000 Sam/Jack stories.
The former co-archivist describes the appeal of the site for Jam/Jack fans:
- Stumbling across the SJD (or SJA as it was at the time) is what got me involved in this fandom. I found this site full of wonderful stories that were soley focused on a pairing that I was interested in (obsessed may be a better word). I found a link to the samandjack mailing list and there I’ve stayed for the last three and a half years. [...] We have a page here where we don’t have to wade through the Sam/Daniel fic or NoRomo stories. When we click on a story, we’re guarenteed a Sam and Jack story. How great is that?![1]
The site is a sister site of the Dan and Jan Fanfiction Archive.
Site History
The Sam/Jack Fanfiction Archive (SJA) first opened on 2 Nov 1998 and was hosted on Geocities.[2] The samandjack.net url was introduced on 16 Oct 2002. That year the page was restructured and became the Sam/Jack Directory (SJD). It was the fan fiction index for the samandjack mailing list and in 2002 the directory listed more than 2,000 stories.[3]
One of the archivists describes the changes:
- The SJD, first and foremost, is a fanfiction archive. The original SJD (then called the "SJA") contained only a very small portion of fanfiction and so, in an effort to increase awareness of this wonderful relationship, other sections were gradually added. Episode reviews that contained a "shippy focus", beta readers, song lyrics (for inspiration), picture galleries and character info-pages were just some of the many ways the archive strove to increase the SJ fan following. And it worked. (Well, ok, to be honest - increased awareness more than likely came from wonderful episodes like "Into The Fire", "Point Of View", "Divide And Conquer", "Window Of Opportunity" and "Entity" (etc etc etc). *g*)
- So, with a huge fan following, the SJ fanfiction very quickly started flooding in. For an archive that opened with only three fanfictions, "today's" figure of 2,000+ stories is quite staggering. However, with this huge fic-flood, a choice had to be made. For a good 20 months (if not longer) there were very little updates to the SJD, and what updates were made were usually lacking in fanfiction - not because of a lack of stories but because of a lack of time to update fanfiction and all the other area's of the SJD. Because of this, I made a decision to return the SJD to it's original roots - fanfiction.
- The SJD of today is a completely (SJ) fanfiction orientated site.[4]
The site became an automated archive on 13 Sep 2009.[5]
samandjack.net uses the eFiction software.
References
- ^ A note from Jez..., 19 August 2002. (Accessed 12 March 2011)
- ^ http://geocities.com/sjarchive/, via Wayback. (Accessed 12 March 2011)
- ^ Sam/Jack Directory. (Accessed 12 March 2011)
- ^ A note from Ness..., 19 August 2002. (Accessed 12 March 2011)
- ^ samandjack.net Site Info. (Accessed 12 March 2011)