May 4, 1995: Vincent Juodvalkis opens the first Gossamer archive at http://gossamer.eng.ohio-state.edu/ and ftp://gossamer.eng.ohio-state.edu/pub/archive after mirroring files from all the older FTP sites which collected stories from ATXC. He begins collecting/archiving all fan fiction posted to ATXC.
Early 1996: FTP mirror site ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/misc/sf/x-files/creative/ set up at the Free University of Berlin, maintained by Vera.
July 30, 1996: Closure of the Ohio-State site in October, 1996 is announced.
August, 1996: Steph Davies mirrors all files from the Ohio-State site to her site in the UK.
August 12, 1996: Natasha opens "The Gossamer Project," a project to database, summarize and classify all stories currently contained within Gossamer.
August 20, 1996: Adam Lee mirrors all files from the Ohio-State site to his site in Australia. Natasha decides to link web pages generated by the Gossamer Project database to this site.
August 22, 1996: Harri Nyman mirrors all files from the Ohio-State site to his site in Finland (Frohike's Creative Archive).
September 13, 1996: Natasha opens Gossamer Simplenet in order to both host the pages generated by the Gossamer Project database, and provide a US-based mirror of the story files. She begins collecting all stories posted to ATXC and XFF. Over the next several months this site becomes the primary Gossamer archive, mirrored by Adam Lee's Australian archive.
November 28, 1996: Steph Davies announces that although the UK site will contain all stories from the Ohio-State site, and stories collected through November, 1996, the archive would no longer be regularly collecting current stories.
December, 1996: Natasha and Adam stop archiving unfinished stories.
January, 1997: Natasha (Gossamer USA), Adam (Gossamer Australia) and Harri (Gossamer Finland) agree to share one database and point of story collection.
January 23, 1997: Michelle opens the Gossamer Unfinished Stories Archive in order to archive works-in-progress.
Febuary, 1997: Gossamer X-Philes is created as a test site for improvements to the Gossamer database and page generation scripts.
Febuary 16, 1997: Amy opens the Gossamer Specialty Archive, to host poems, songs, non-fiction, and other works which were not purely fictional in nature.
Febuary 22, 1997: Steph Davies opens the Gossamer Serials and Series Archive, for stories.
April 28, 1997: Gossamer Birdfeeder is opened by Lisa.
May 31, 1997: Natasha announces the closure of Gossamer USA (Simplenet) and her retirement from archiving.
June, 1997: The Gossamer Project is reorganized, and back end technologies are upgraded. Gossamer X-Philes is opened for public access. Gossamer Simplenet is turned over to Deirdre from Natasha.
Lisa (Gossamer Birdfeeder/story cleanup), Adam (Gossamer Australia), Deirdre (Gossamer Simplenet/story cleanup), Chael (Gossamer X-Philes/technical), Harri (Gossamer Finland), Vera (Gossamer FTP), Amy (Specialty Archive), Michelle (Unfinished and Serial Archive), and Gem (Database Administrator) take over maintainance.
November 1, 1997: Gossamer Australia closes.
February 10, 1998: The gossamer.org domain name is registered.
May, 1998: Gossamer is listed in the Yahoo! print magazine and traffic spikes to over 60,000 hits per day on each of the complete story archives.
June 3, 1998: Gossamer Simplenet is forced closed by its web host due to excessive traffic. The site is transferred to another web host (Interspeed), but it is shut down by that host within two weeks.
July, 1998: The Gossamer Update Archive is created to balance the extreme load experienced when new stories are posted to the archive between more hosts. The site crashes the web host's (Jovian) server within 24 hours of announcing an update. We move the update archive to a different host soon thereafter.
July 12, 1998: Gossamer Germany is opened.
November 15, 1998: The Gossamer Unfinished and Serials Archive is renamed to the Gossamer Works-in-Progress (WiP) Archive and all serials consisting of complete stories are moved to the complete story archives.
April 1, 1999: The names Birdfeeder, Germany and X-Philes are all retired. Gossamer Fluky, Krycek and Skinner are opened.
November 11, 1999: The last update is posted to the Gossamer Works-in-Progress (WiP) Archive. It remains available for viewing, but is closed to new submissions.
April 2, 2001: Gossamer Tooms is opened. By this point Gossamer Skinner has pretty much disappeared, so it is removed from the list of active sites.
April 17, 2002: Gossamer Krycek is moved to a new dedicated server.
August 16, 2003: Gossamer Tooms is moved to a new dedicated server.
January 1, 2004: The e-mail addresses for Gossamer are officially moved to the gossamer.org domain.
Today: The Gossamer archives are collectively maintained by Deirdre, Vera, and Chael. After ten years, Gossamer continues to deliver on its promise to provide X-Files fan fiction without interruption or distraction.