FortuneCity

FortuneCity
URL	http://www.fortunecity.com/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
Status	Offline April 30th, 2012
Archiving status	Saved! (Partial) user lookup
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/fortunecity
Project tracker	http://focity.heroku.com/
IRC channel	#fortuneshitty (on hackint)

Shutdown notice

Common Problems

configure: error: --with-ssl was given, but GNUTLS is not available.

You don't have the proper headers available to be able to compile wget-warc. It should be fairly easy to fix though. If you're using a Debian or Ubuntu-based Linux distribution:

   apt-get install libgnutls-dev

If you're using a Fedora distribution:

   yum install gnutls-devel

If you're using FreeBSD :

   cd /usr/ports/security/gnutls/
   make all install clean

If you're using something else you'll just have to poke around in the documentation and figure it out :)

Status

Archiving is well under way. Check the tracker for an up to date status report.

Site structure

FortuneCities operated in multiple tlds: com co.uk es it se

(Once operated but died: de fr nl cn.fortunecity.com)

Main website:

• http://www.fortunecity.${tld}/

Username-based sites:

• http://members.fortunecity.${tld}/
• http://${username}.fortunecity.${tld}/${username}/

Area/street-based sites:

• http://www.fortunecity.${tld}/${area}/${street}/${number}/
• on .com also: http://${area}.fortunecity.com/${street}/${number}/

Range of numbers: unsure. At least includes 0 up to 2600. Note: the street names are case-sensitive.

Categories, areas, streets

Before 2001, FortuneCity used a category-area-street-based system.

The categories were the same for all tlds:

artsandhumanities
businessandcareers
computersandinternet
entertainment
homeandfamily
international
peopleandchat
recreationandsports
scifiandparanormal
travelandtransport

(This data is on https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/fortunecity/tree/master/explore)

The areas for each category can be found via Wayback (1999 or 2000): http://www.fortunecity.${tld}/explore/category/${category}.html

The streets for each area, too. For com in 1999: http://${area}.fortunecity.com/ For others in 2000: http://www.fortunecity.${tld}/explore/area/${area}.html

The streets for the following .com areas couldn't be found via Wayback:

challenge cratervalley lavender littleitaly marina olympia skyscraper tatooine victorian