Ah yes. I love the old classics. It's rare anybody writes them like they used to.
I'm not a big sissy story fan though. They're just something I like to read once in a while when I'm in the mood.
That's not actually the archives, just the old story section where nobody commented on them in a while.
Unlike many sites though, because we carry so much old, sometimes forgotten, or rare material, we do welcome all to comment on any old material & stories. It brings attention to many of them that were forgotten about, or not noticed by the newbies.
It also gives the author encouragement to try to write again. Some of the older authors are still around, but may have stopped or retired from writing. So a comment to their material will sure make them feel good that their stuff is still read, even if they don't intend to write anymore, or can't think up any more new ideas.
This is especially true with writers who wrote a lot over the years. At one point they just can't think up anything more to write about without being afraid it sounds too much like something they wrote or read about before. So posting something directly at a story you like, no matter how old it is, is a very good, welcome thing here at Betty's.
The archives of Betty's are at a separate independent site, wayback & webarchives, that archive many sites that are submitted to them. I started saving as much as the old material as I could on our own now after the wayback/webarchives dropped all of our 1990s stuff, along with 1990s material from many sites without warning.
Being a place that advertises as a web archive, that collects grants, loans, & donations for claiming to archive web sites, you'd think hanging on to all that 1990s stuff from the early years on the internet would have been their most important priority rather than delete most of the 1990s to make more space to archive sites only a few months or years old.
Sadly, those old sites didn't take much space at all compared to many overloaded & bloated sites of today either. Indeed, the material on many modern sites come from so many different sources & servers, it may even be impossible to properly archive them.