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whispering-about-the-tmnt · 1 year ago

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Well, now... isn't this something...

How many of you Turtle-fans were around in the heyday of individual fanpages (around the late 90s to early 00s)? When people would host their own sites on places like Geocities and Angelfire?

I don't know how many of you are nostalgic for that sort of thing, but I frequently miss being able to go to sites like that to read fanfics and look at fanart and such. And I had just such a bout of nostalgia today, so I decided to go and look at the state of Angelfire now, where I once ran my own TMNT site.

I mean, hell... the whole reason I am able to do html markups is because I had to learn how to do it in order to format my stuff on Angelfire (the simple editor was a bit too plain for my liking).

Apparently, they stopped offering free websites to new registrants in the 2010s. But the to new registrants part got me wondering. So I dug into my old email, found my old Angelfire account, requested a password change, and got in to the web shell... and apparently, since I made my webpage back in the late 90s, I have been grandfathered in, and am still able to edit the page for free.

Now, when I tell you this is exciting for me, I mean it. I know there is no chance of pages like that ever becoming the norm again, but, as a curiosity, it is just plain awesome to know that if I wanted to I could jump right back in and update a site that hasn't been updated in 21 years!

And the mere fact that it is still up and running is... frankly, amazing. Most of the pages that I linked to from there are long gone now. There are popups on the page, of course, but if you're on Firefox and have a blocker, then it isn't an issue.

If you want to go take a look at what I created back in the late 20th century, here you go: The TMNT Soundtrack Project.

Yeah, kids... that's how the internet used to look.

So, I wonder... what if I did update it now, over two decades later? What if I made a new front page (with a link to the old site), then linked my current internet goings-on to it (meaning my Tumblr, my AO3, etc.)? What if I used it to archive my TMNT fanfics and, some time in the future, to have a page dedicated to my 70s AU? What would you all think of that?

If for no other reason than the nostalgia factor...

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #ninja turtles #the 1990s #the 2000s #angelfire #old web design #nostalgia #90s nostalgia

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monsterbasement · 2 years ago

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