This Archivist Has Saved 175,000 Articles from 30 Years of Writing about Magic: The Gathering
The Library of Leng is a new searchable database dedicated to preserving articles about Magic: The Gathering. Created by Gregor Stocks, the site compiles old Usenet articles and hobbyist posts, aiming to maintain the game's strategic history. Despite its successes, some historical writings remain absent from the collection.
- ▪The Library of Leng hosts links to early strategic writing about Magic: The Gathering from 1994 onward.
- ▪Gregor Stocks, the creator, aims to preserve influential articles that might otherwise be lost to time.
- ▪The project has received positive feedback, with readers and authors engaging to share and add content.
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I have been playing Magic: The Gathering on and off since I was a child and in that time I’ve read countless articles and websites about the game. Much of it is lost to time and internet churn. Sites are deleted and even the strongest hobby writing vanishes if it isn’t preserved. The Library of Leng is a website that’s attempting to do that preservation work.Named after a Magic card, the Library of Leng is a new searchable database of writing about the card game. It pulled old usenet articles, hobbyist posts from old websites saved in the Internet Archive, and updates from publisher Wizards of the Coast that are routinely scrubbed from existence.
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