The university allowed "Chris" to re-open the access to the stories section.Īround June 1994, Nifty also enabled GOPHER access and about a year later, FTP-access was limited to reduce the heavy CPU load on the system. CMU requested the hostmasters to remove some pictures because many of them were copyrighted and there was no age-restriction to the FTP site.
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The archive had to end public access to the site in April 1993 because "Chris", his postmaster and also his boss received harassing email about the FTP-site. In March of that year they started the task of categorizing and merging of all uploaded stories. In 1993 the current webmaster "David" approached the initiator "Chris" and offered his help and support. The Nifty Archive started as a personal archive of both stories and pictures made available to the public via anonymous File Transfer Protocol at Carnegie Mellon University by a student who became later a staff-member. The site is run by the Nifty Archive Alliance, an official not-for-profit organisation and recognized as a tax-exempt organisation by the US IRS. The Nifty Archive at is an archive on the internet collecting and publishing a wide range of erotic stories via their website. A version with links was originally posted on Wikipedia, but we have removed them to avoid the possibility of mis-attributed liability for the actions of individuals. Viewers in jurisdictions where literary erotica involving minors is criminalized (including Canada) are advised NOT to visit the site profiled in this article.
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