With the passage of time, the Civ 2 community has become smaller, so I looked at a few things and post them here, mostly as a reference.
The current owners of Apolyton are:
Martin Gühmann
Robert Plomp
And it seems they are committed to not only keeping Apolyton alive, but growing, which is of course good news both for Civ 2 and the whole Civ franchise.
Civ II Link:
http://apolyton.net/content.php/187-civilization-ii
Apolyton has an active site (though the Civ II portion is basically inactive), which means it looks good that the archives will remain online for some years to come:
What's Going On?
There are currently 148 users online. 12 members and 112 guests and 24 spiders
Most users ever online was 842, June 14, 2011 at 20:47.
Apolyton Civilization Site Statistics
Threads: 158,948 Posts: 5,238,498 Members: 111,723 Active Members: 1,097
Some relevant Civ II names at Apolyton:
DaveV - ICS, Knowledge
*La Fayette - Knowledge, Three Arrows & Super Iconclads Strategy ([Michel Baise], deceased)
Marquis de Sodaq - Combat, Knowledge, Civ II Website (also *Sodak)
*+Mercator - Scenarios, Modded EXEs/packs, Programming tools
Oedo - Research, Oedo Years
*+Peaster - ECG (Early Conquest Guide), Knowledge
Paul van den Belt - OCC, Paulicy
Samson - Research, Testing, Science, Keyciv, Knowledge
Scouse Gits [SG(2)]- Knowledge, Early Landings, Starting Tech, Co-creator of Great Library (3 players in 1; SG(2) [Ivor], is deceased)
*Sethos - Knowledge
*+SlowThinker - Knowledge, Research, Testing, Spies, Co-Founder of Great Library
*Smash - OCC, Knowledge
Solo - OCC, ELG (Early Landing Guide), Small Maps, Research
Sten Sture - OCC
* - also a poster at CivFanatics
+ - Still active
NOTE 1: Of course, this list is not inclusive, and certainly not complete; it relies mainly on my recollections.
NOTE 2: I was not an active Apolyton member, and did not even join Apolyton until 2002 when Nethog needed assistance with his Civ 2 Reference Pack.
NOTE 3: Much of CivFanatics Civ II work is directly or indirectly based upon, or at least affected by, the work started or done by members such as these.