Some of this the club wrote down at the time. Most of it we went and found.
Four channels the club no longer uses turned out to still be readable: a website that Google deleted, a Google Group with four years of weekly meeting notices, a deleted Douban site whose photographs were still sitting on Douban’s servers, and a Facebook page nobody had logged into since 2022. Between them they name the founder, date the meetings, list the officers and place every move the club has made.
What follows is all of it, with the sources attached. Where a source contradicts another, both are shown and neither is picked.
Four Years of Tuesdays
The club ran on a Google Group for four years. Every file ever attached to it came back, including ninety printed agendas, which is why sixty meeting pages now say who ran the evening and what was spoken about.
The Douban archive
The club kept a Douban site until it stopped being updated in 2019, and it was deleted some time after 2021. The pages survive in the Internet Archive; the photographs were pulled back off Douban's image servers, which outlived the page they belonged to.
The First Website
The club ran its own site on Google Sites before it ran a mailing list. Google shut classic Sites down and took it with them; one Internet Archive capture survived. It names the founder, the first president, the room in Luohu and the reason the club used to meet only twice a month.