Nostalgia...
Geocities is closing before the end of this month, and it's really been making me nostalgic. When it closes, a huge part of web-culture history will be wiped out. While some of us will be sure to back up our files, all the old, well-loved, abandoned sites will disappear.
I am especially sad about the Kraider sites. Does anyone else remember them? They were a group of cousins who created Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon shrines, one for each of the senshi except for Sailormoon and Sailorchibimoon. They were active between 1996 and 2000. Their shrines had a big impact on the Sailormoon community: they were among the first to include in depth character analyses, and they help start the move towards information-based shrines.
I bring this up because Jov's shrine to Sailorjupiter, Dark Echo Grounds of Thunder Senshi, was a major influence for my own Sailorjupiter shrine. Her shrine gave me the idea of organizing information based on persona, and my early designs were inspired by ones I saw there. Even now, almost ten years later, I still draw inspiration from her site. By today's standards it is not perfect: there are a few factual mistakes, the design does not work with all browsers, the designs lack the flair that many modern shrines have. For its time, though, it was the best of its kind. It remains one of my very favorite shrines, and I am deeply sad that it will be deleted soon.
The other Kraider shrines were just as impressive: Beam of the Love Senshi, Fire Senshi's Realm, Turbulence: The Second Impact, Time Senshi of the Crystal Gateways. Unfortunately, Silent Walls of Destruction, Embrace of Turbulent Tides, and Ice Senshi's Lake of Illusions have already been deleted (the last, though, can be viewed via the Internet Web Archive.
Nothing lasts.
I am especially sad about the Kraider sites. Does anyone else remember them? They were a group of cousins who created Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon shrines, one for each of the senshi except for Sailormoon and Sailorchibimoon. They were active between 1996 and 2000. Their shrines had a big impact on the Sailormoon community: they were among the first to include in depth character analyses, and they help start the move towards information-based shrines.
I bring this up because Jov's shrine to Sailorjupiter, Dark Echo Grounds of Thunder Senshi, was a major influence for my own Sailorjupiter shrine. Her shrine gave me the idea of organizing information based on persona, and my early designs were inspired by ones I saw there. Even now, almost ten years later, I still draw inspiration from her site. By today's standards it is not perfect: there are a few factual mistakes, the design does not work with all browsers, the designs lack the flair that many modern shrines have. For its time, though, it was the best of its kind. It remains one of my very favorite shrines, and I am deeply sad that it will be deleted soon.
The other Kraider shrines were just as impressive: Beam of the Love Senshi, Fire Senshi's Realm, Turbulence: The Second Impact, Time Senshi of the Crystal Gateways. Unfortunately, Silent Walls of Destruction, Embrace of Turbulent Tides, and Ice Senshi's Lake of Illusions have already been deleted (the last, though, can be viewed via the Internet Web Archive.
Nothing lasts.