FortuneCity

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FortuneCity
Fortunecity 1304522840896.png
URL http://www.fortunecity.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Closing April 30th, 2012
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

GitHub: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/fortunecity

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 1040. 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:

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