Bramblethorn
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I'm not sure we're going to be able to answer this question without insider help, because the dates given for older stories are not reliable.
Here's a snapshot of the "Top 20 Stories" list. The snapshot was taken on October 12 1999, and the page says the list was updated on October 6. So all the stories on that list must be at least that old: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012022148/http://literotica.com/storyxs/20_stor.shtml
The top story on that list is "Teaching Patti". Clicking through, Wayback has an archive of that one dated on October 14 1999, again confirming that it's been up at least that long. https://web.archive.org/web/1999101...erotica.com/storyxs/stories/tpi_e_45_f9.shtml
That version on the story is still accessible on Literotica today: https://www.literotica.com/storyxs/stories/tpi_e_45_f9.shtml
But the URL is different to what you'd normally see for a Literotica story (note the /storyxs/ rather than /s/) and the page design is different. The voting options go from "Garbage!" to "Amazing!" instead of what we have now, the author link is just a mailto rather than going to a profile, and so on.
Searching for "Teaching Patti" in the Literotica story search returns the same story but at a different place: https://www.literotica.com/s/teaching-patti-ch-1
This one has the regular Literotica page design, link to author profile, etc. According to the author profile it was published on 06/20/00. In fact, most of the author's stories have the exact same publication date, along with one dated 06/19/00 and a couple on 06/23/00. But we know the story was published some time earlier than October 12 1999.
I'd guess that the earliest version of the site didn't record story dates. At some point, Lit switched to a new format which included dates and author profiles, set up a new version of the site, and imported the old stories to the new site, and added dates to them which aren't the original publication dates - most likely, they're the date on which the story was copied to the new site.
For whatever reason, they're still running the legacy version of the site. You can see it here: https://literotica.com/storyxs/ - most of the links seem to go to more current content, but note that the story counts next to each category are very low (presumably not updated since ~ 2000) and it still has a link to "Extreme Stories" (hosted at another site) which hasn't been on the regular main page for a very long time.
So for stories dated around 2000 or earlier, the date is probably telling you when they were imported to the new version, not when they were originally posted. There will be a bunch that were posted 1998 or 1999 but are now dated as "2000".
Here's a snapshot of the "Top 20 Stories" list. The snapshot was taken on October 12 1999, and the page says the list was updated on October 6. So all the stories on that list must be at least that old: https://web.archive.org/web/19991012022148/http://literotica.com/storyxs/20_stor.shtml
The top story on that list is "Teaching Patti". Clicking through, Wayback has an archive of that one dated on October 14 1999, again confirming that it's been up at least that long. https://web.archive.org/web/1999101...erotica.com/storyxs/stories/tpi_e_45_f9.shtml
That version on the story is still accessible on Literotica today: https://www.literotica.com/storyxs/stories/tpi_e_45_f9.shtml
But the URL is different to what you'd normally see for a Literotica story (note the /storyxs/ rather than /s/) and the page design is different. The voting options go from "Garbage!" to "Amazing!" instead of what we have now, the author link is just a mailto rather than going to a profile, and so on.
Searching for "Teaching Patti" in the Literotica story search returns the same story but at a different place: https://www.literotica.com/s/teaching-patti-ch-1
This one has the regular Literotica page design, link to author profile, etc. According to the author profile it was published on 06/20/00. In fact, most of the author's stories have the exact same publication date, along with one dated 06/19/00 and a couple on 06/23/00. But we know the story was published some time earlier than October 12 1999.
I'd guess that the earliest version of the site didn't record story dates. At some point, Lit switched to a new format which included dates and author profiles, set up a new version of the site, and imported the old stories to the new site, and added dates to them which aren't the original publication dates - most likely, they're the date on which the story was copied to the new site.
For whatever reason, they're still running the legacy version of the site. You can see it here: https://literotica.com/storyxs/ - most of the links seem to go to more current content, but note that the story counts next to each category are very low (presumably not updated since ~ 2000) and it still has a link to "Extreme Stories" (hosted at another site) which hasn't been on the regular main page for a very long time.
So for stories dated around 2000 or earlier, the date is probably telling you when they were imported to the new version, not when they were originally posted. There will be a bunch that were posted 1998 or 1999 but are now dated as "2000".
