The Starsky & Hutch Archive

The Starsky & Hutch Archive is a gen and slash fiction site, and also contains netfic, as well as much zine fic. The site has undergone a variety of remodels and moves, was originally launched in 1996, it migrated to a different platform and urls in the late 90s, in 2010 and again in 2023. The Archive was given a Huggy Award for being the Best Starsky & Hutch website for 1999 at the 14th Annual ZebraCon.
==Some History==
The site was created in 1995 and went live in 1996 as The Pits Archive."Its first home in 1998 was Geocities and called "The Pits", and then it resided for a long time at www.squidge.org thanks to the generosity of Walter H. Hopgood." - Starsky and Hutch Archive
Originally, the archive was started by fanfic writer, Alexis Rogers, and webmistress, Sebastyin, who felt it was time for Starsky and Hutch fanfic to be available online. Fans on the VenicePlace mailing list, including Nancy T, Solo, Alexis Rogers, Suzan Lovett, and Flamingo, helped to develop the archive.
Because some gen zine fans and writers were unwilling to have their fanfic appear on a website featuring slash fic, two separate archives were established. Initially, the SH Archive was created and operated by Sebastyin and hosted on Geocities.com. Eventually, most of the fans involved in the creation of the archive moved on leaving Flamingo as webmistress and archivist. In 1999, Geocities.com changed its Terms of Service and declared they now owned the copyright on all content on its servers. Within 24 hours, Flamingo moved the entire archive and all its content to Delphi.com,"HAS MOVED! Grab your blue Addidas, rev up your Torino, and follow us for some really great S&H fanfiction!" - where it resided until Delphi discontinued its website services in 2000. The archive next moved to www.squidge.org thanks to the generosity of Walter H. Hopgood. However, the archive was still a basic html site with no search function, while other fanfic archives had advanced search and sorting functions. In 2006, Morgan Logan designed and engineered an archive with more advanced functions, and the archive established the domain starskyhutcharchive.com. SHaron assisted with data-collection." Over the years, as fans moved on to other interests, Flamingo became the webmistress through default. SHaron and her stalwart band of transcribers managed to scan and proofread a great deal of the classic zine fiction that is now on the site. The recent site re-work was designed and engineered by Morgan Logan with the assistance of Flamingo and the data-collection assistance of SHaron, who put in countless hours getting the data into spreadsheets for import into the new database... The kind folks at Me and Thee Archive and The Pits (defunct) helped by participating in a browser survey so the site would look good cross-platform." -Starsky and Hutch Archive However, Flamingo, still the nominal archivist, was unable to update this archive for several years. In 2010, Cyanne used e-Fiction software to build a new archive under the domain starskyhutcharchive.net. KimberlyFDR helped with CSS formatting, and Suzan Lovett did the art for the skins. Many fans helped with transferring stories from the dot com site.
In an August 30, 2012 interview Flamingo offered a detailed history of the development of the archive. The following has been paraphrased from that interview:
==Some Home Pages==
File:sharchive1-1.jpg| the gen section, GeoCities
File:sharchive1-2.jpg| the slash section, GeoCities
File:sharchive2-2.jpg| the gen section, Delphi
File:sharchive2-1.jpg| the slash section, Delphi
File:starskyhutcharchivegenbanner.jpg| the gen section, Squidge
File:starskyhutcharchiveslashbanner.jpg| the slash section, Squidge
==1998 Flyer==
From a March 8, 1998 flyer:
==1999 Flyer==
	
==2010 Incarnation==
===Regarding Warnings and Tags===
===Fiction Categories===
===Watch Out... Not "Even on Your Lunch Hour"===
==2000: "Those Pioneering Dames"==
In 2000, Flamingo thanked "those pioneering dames": 
==2002 Fan Comments on Archiving and History==
From a 2002 discussion about archiving:
==Other Starsky and Hutch Fanfic Archives and Lists==
* The Pits Archive (gen and slash, the first archive)
* Bay City Library (gen)
* Me and Thee Archive (gen, slash)
* Tagging Bay City (list of tagged S&H fic)
* Dave & Ken's Diner (automated slash archive)
* The Starsky & Hutch Archive (gen and slash)
==References==
Category:Gen Archives
Category:Slash Archives
Category:Starsky & Hutch Websites
Category:GeoCities
Category:Squidge.org
Category:1990s Archives
Category:2000s Archives
Category:EFictionCategory:Print Zine Archives