What happened to the anime web turnpike?
Arnold Kim
Yes, it's still around, but it's far from the epicenter of anime online that
it used to be. What happened? It's not like this newsgroup, where fewer
and fewer people are using usenet these days- this is the world wide web
we're talking about.
Arnold Kim
Rob Kelk
The site was bought out a few years ago by a group that decided to turn
it into a magazine. People didn't *want* a magazine. People left...
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"I'm *not* a kid! Nyyyeaaah!" - Skuld (in "Oh My Goddess!" OAV #3)
"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear
of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up." - C.S. Lewis
Derek Janssen
With the rise of blogs, and the mainstream saturation of anime, the
Personal Series-devoted Fansite seems to have gone the way of the 90's--
It was easy to make a website when a series was a fansub-only cult
unknown, but there aren't too many of those nowadays. :(
That, and think the original AniPike was bought out by some larger web
company, and lost all the charm--Now it's a "magazine" site, and not up
to the level of AnimeNewsNetwork.com.
However, the Trixie Turnpike icons are still archived:
http://www.anipike.com/classic/banners/
Derek Janssen (who misses looking forward to Halloween)
eja...@verizon.net
The Relic
I still have one of those Trixie Turnpike links to
the Turnpike on my old Home of the Relic site:
http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/homeoftherelic/index.htm
Of course, I haven't done anything to the site in a long time,
and being Angelfire, you may get a popup or two (my Firefox blocks
those, though). If you don't want to go, it's
the Sailor Moon Trixie ^_^.
I occasionally pop into the Turnpike every few years to see what's
happening (I used to have a link to the Images section of my site
listed there), but, nah. If I'm interested in finding out about a
particular series (and I haven't heard about it here), I go to ANN
or Rumic World.
Sobi...@gmail.com
> Arnold Kim wrote:
> > Ten years ago, the Anipike used to be -the- hub for anime on the
> > internet. Yes, it's still around, but it's far from the epicenter of
> > anime online that it used to be. What happened? It's not like this
> > newsgroup, where fewer and fewer people are using usenet these days-
> > this is the world wide web we're talking about.
>
> With the rise of blogs, and the mainstream saturation of anime, the
> Personal Series-devoted Fansite seems to have gone the way of the 90's--
Ah, the 90's!
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What happened then? :-)
> It was easy to make a website when a series was a fansub-only cult
> unknown, but there aren't too many of those nowadays. :(
Sad really when you realized you're not the only one!
> That, and think the original AniPike was bought out by some larger web
> company, and lost all the charm--Now it's a "magazine" site, and not up
> to the level of AnimeNewsNetwork.com.
Sad it as gone that way, I had many a fun time on that back in '96
when I was just starting out.
> However, the Trixie Turnpike icons are still archived:http://www.anipike.com/classic/banners/
>
> Derek Janssen (who misses looking forward to Halloween)
Me too. :-(
Derek Janssen
>>
>>With the rise of blogs, and the mainstream saturation of anime, the
>>Personal Series-devoted Fansite seems to have gone the way of the 90's--
>
>
> Ah, the 90's!
> .
> .
> .
> .
> What happened then? :-)
We lost Geocities.
Derek Janssen (and with it, the Loser Bargain Micro-Fansite)
eja...@verizon.net
Sobi...@gmail.com
Nope, I was just making a silly joke about the 90's, but thanks for
the answer!
Gerardo Campos
08:26:18p:
Similarly, what happened to the Anime Venice Archive?
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Saludos
Gerardo Campos