About the Writers Lounge
The website writerslounge.net was established in 1997 under the name "Lonesome Writer's Lounge". It was and still is a platform for unpublished writers from all over the world, where they can bring their work to a larger international audience for free. In what you would now call a "Web 2.0" site, the Writers Lounge was a pioneer project, one of the first websites consisting of user generated content only, and offering community-like services before the term "social network" even existed for the web.
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1997-1999: The Lonesome Writer's Lounge Generation 1 Domain: Geocities |
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1999-2001: The Lonesome Writer's Lounge Generation 2 Domain: Geocities |
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2002-2005: The Lonesome Writer's Lounge Generation 3 Domains: lostpoets.tk, lounge.purecult.net |
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2005-2008: Writers Lounge Generation 4 Domain: writerslounge.net |
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2008: Writers Lounge Generation 5 Domain: writerslounge.net |













