Save Speculumpages. Com

The website that was once speculumpages.com has been lost to us for some time.

On January 16, 2006, their server was lost to the internet, its contents gone forever.

Or close to it. For years after that, the internet archive site, archive.org provided us with a time machine that allowed us to see into the contents of the lost site.

Some time later, that archive was blocked to the public due to the configuration of a file placed by the placeholder server that is currently assigned the domain name. When that happened, we lost access to all of speculumpages.com, as the only remaining archive of its contents had been erased.

Or so I thought.

Today, during an idle sweep, I discovered that the offending file had been removed from the new host, and thus access to those archives has been restored. However, we cannot expect that access to remain.

So here is my proposal:

Let us, the users of erotic clinic, and the consumers of the material, set out to save it while we can. Here is how we should do this. The stories on speculumpages.com were organize numerically into pages. Story one was on page 1, story 201 on page two, etc. There are 22 pages. Let's take these stories out of the archive and give them a new home. We might be able to host them here. If not, I will lead the effort to host a server containing them. We might also be able to regain the domain name...we can talk about that at a later time.

So here's how you can help:

Those of us who wish to participate in the project, each take a page. Start with page one. Post here that you are taking a page, so that we don't double cover. Go through the page, and download each story. Save them in seperate text files (.txt files, produced by notedpad), called "####_Name.txt". So story one, which is called "A Visit to the Clinic" would be saved in a file called "0001_A Visit to the Clinic.txt" (four digit numbers please).

For stories which have been removed, save an empty text file to that location called "####_Removed".

To save a page, simply load it, hit Control+A (select all), Control+C (copy), then go to notepad (a new notepad document), and hit Control+V (paste). Then save it.

For now, just keep all the text files. In the next few days, I will setup an email address so you can email me the files, and then we can go about making use of them.

Hopefully we can save this wonderful site, and prevent it from falling into oblivion!

The latest archive is the Jan 13, 2006 one, and it can be found here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060105042755/www.speculumpages.com/page1/index01.htm

Thanks for the help all!

I will take page 1.

I'm not sure that my technical knowledge is up to helping you with this, but it's a noble endeavor and I wish you all the best and hope that others will step up to the plate.

But SRG, if you plan on reposting any of the stories, either here or elsewhere, please make sure that no one's copyright is being violated. Even though Speculum Pages no longer exists, it's always possible that some of the stories were previously published on another website or had appeared in print, and that they were then reproduced in Speculum Pages with the author's permission.

Just a friendly word of warning which I hope you won't take amiss.

Copyright is an issue which will have to be addressed, correct. That's why I am not immediately posting the stories. We will need some discussion of this.....

I came across a link and believe it is the stories from the original site.

I also have on one of my "XXX" drives with photos and movies an old archive of what I think is all the original stories. I will have to compare when I locate which drive have the archive.

Many of the stories are just wonderful and drove me to really enjoy this fetish.

You may have to go back to 2004 to get the stories to open up. 2005 and 2006 stories appear blocked. 2004 stories to page 21 appear ok.

just a 'fyi'. good project.

That was good stuff.

It has come to my attention, since this effort was started, that several mirrors of the original content exist, and so I don't believe we need to peruse this any further.....

Thank you all for your help!

This was a great site. Luckily this site has taken up the slack.

Actually, I am working on one such mirror, cleaning up the files and streamlining the code without changing things a lot. I do plan to restore the French and German pages as well. I do have the full files including the pictures. Nothing against some of the mirrors, but... are the files being cared for by a loving medfet enthusiast? Can we communicate with the ones who are doing these mirrors?

I will accept submissions for the "new" wing, and these will be presented in a way so as not to confuse with the original site. I promise you that I will do all I can to preserve and protect these gems...

Love the old site and like reading all the new stories when they posted, hate it got took down and have the new site favorited and thou it's got nice stories....it just dosen't feel like the old site which I miss 😢

Just use a tool like WGET ( http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ ) to scrape the entire site.

We all owe ebt of gratitude to you folks who have the technical savy to preserve this "seminal" work in our endeavors

DrLaennec

So how do we access a mirror of the original site? I'n my opinion the site was a masterpiece for those of us in metfetish.

Thanks to Xamminer for this link for the entire speculum pages:

http://czclinic.com/speculumpages/index1.htm

In addition to the stories, speculumpages had collections of classic enema illustrations, many of which can be found on this site. Has anyone been able to recapture the rest of speculumpages?

Wow. I don't think I followed all the technical stuff in this discussion, but it seems like you all had to do a ton of work to bring this back. Bravo for all of that!

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likestodoit, that is a very interesting question for a couple of reasons.

First off, one of the individuals that did much of the work to make Speculum Pages what it was in its 'real' day of activity, is a relatively new member of Zity.biz. And, it is my thought that when this thread is seen, that a first hand sharing about Speculum Pages could possibly be forth coming.

During my acquaintanceship with this individual in the late '90s, last century ~ 😃 , a set of 3-CDs came to me. The stories, photographs, artwork, cartoons and jokes within those discs, may well have comprised a significant percentage of the Speculum Pages at its best. How much, I cannot say; there is a lot of material on the CDs. I would even consider sharing the discs with Zity.biz, if I discerned that there would not be any negative ramification to my doing so.

Time will tell. Let's take a wait and see attitude to discern if the 'real participant' (facilitator?) from the Speculum Pages website will join the thread, and provide all of us with an even greater understanding about this marvelous site of yesteryear...

Now ~ go out and make it a gr8 day!

Hermann

Hermann, many thanks for the response. I am eager to learn more about the original Speculumpages. It was such a great site.

Absolutly great stories. Found some I've been hunting for for a while!

Great stories there. Some I remeber from years ago and others are new. Glad some of the tech guys were able to save and repost these stores. Thank you.

All of these stories are available from Archive.org put the term Speculum[ages in the "Way Back Machine" and it will retrieve them. Speaking of Archive.org there are over 1,000,000 free books available for download including a good number on gynaecology (note how Anglophilic I've Become)

@DrLaennec, thanks for the heads up about the books. I love reading old books of any type.

There is another copy:

http://czclinic.com/speculumpages/index1.htm

Thanks to all for the links to Speculumpages. It was and is a truly great site with many great stories to read. Something for everyone.

Glad to have a link to speculumpages.

UP TO DATE LINK : now with page 23

http://web.archive.org/web/20051125172434/http://www.speculumpages.com/

Was wondering if anyone might have the link to the old speculum pages archive??? Had to wipe my computer due to a virus and that got wiped out too...

If you use the Wayback Machine archive and do a search for www.speculumpages.com, you should be able to find several versions of a saved version of the story site ...

Does anyone have a good link for the old Speculum Pages? I used to have one but it quit working.