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Dreamer:
I know there's a bigger focus on social media now, but I stumbled across the Tumblr oldwebmlp and I've been browsing a few of the websites they showcase.

And I've been enjoying all the old art, old web graphics and basically all the little things collectors in the 90s were doing with their websites (what can I say, I'm a nostalgic at heart  :P). They had wishlists and ponies to sell and trade, of course, but sometimes they would also have little adoptables, and pony-related art and stories...

I bet this is not news for many of the Arena members, but at that time, I was too young to browse the web, let alone make a website. I'm kinda rediscovering things and learning a little HTML on the side (hey, never say never!  :biggrin:)

Have you had a website themed around MLP? Do you remember any memorable mentions you'd like to share? Are some of this websites still up or available thru the Wayback Machine? Discuss!

lonewolf:
 The first one I came across when I got on the net in 2006 was a Yahoo group called Mylittlepony2. It was there I discovered the art of customs, and decided to give it a try.

Taffeta:
Mine is and has always been around UK Id, since around 1998. The current version is linked in my sig but I am currently renovatnig it to make it a bit more responsive for tablet use and also more accurate to release schedules because I'm getting sick of seeing ponies in the wrong years on my site let alone on other people's ;)

On the one hand, it's kind of amazing I still have a page. On the other, it's frustrating that I've had the page so long and yet still people are copy pasting debunked information about UK and european to each other on facebook *sigh*.

But in light of the conversation the other day, about the history of our community being lost and so bronies not knowing it existed, I trawled back on the wayback to find the original Ring of Rainbows homepage on DV, and screencaptured it. I decided to make my 1995 page a bit of an epilogue, going beyond 1995 to DV and the community and how ponies were after the end of G1.

I found an old, ugly version of my site with ponies in scanner pics as well, and added that.

I also found the MLP Monthly archives and all of Tabby and Sugarberry's stuff, which I did NOT screengrab because I felt that while it was one thing to use the Ring or Rainbows, I'm not going to start copy pasting other people's main sites into mine. BUT it is there if you go digging around for the wayback of the Ring of Rainbows on DV's page from around 2002. How much of it is there, I don't know. But it's worth a mention if you want to go roaming in writing about g1.

I remember there being quite a lot of sites just about people's own collections and things. Also quite a lot of very simple adoptables and some customs or restoration things.

The Ring of Rainbows, incidentally, for anyone who didn't know/wasn't around was a webring. It was a way of connecting sites together so that it was easier to keep community pages linked up. This was probably pre-google. I think the search was a very basic yahoo back then - so it was easier to use that.

Most of the original fandom community pre-Arena and pre-forum-style Trading Post was on mailing lists like ponypeople, dreamvalley, mylittleponyuk and so on. There was also a newsgroup. Somewhere I have a back up disk of so many messages from those from an old computer when I rebooted it but I doubt I'd be able to open the format now. I have found odd bits and pieces though. I also have a printout from 1999 of my old sales page Hoofprints, with 1999 prices :)

I think the Trading Post became an actual forum in around 2001 or 2002. Before that you had to email Jenn and she'd put your ads up, like a message board. I also found recently the draft of my first advert on the TP from 1997, when we didn't even have an email address and could only leave a UK phone number *lol*. My first ever trade partner called that number and the rest was history!

Unfortunately there was also all the old G2 arguments around then as well, so maybe it's better that a lot of those conversations are probably now lost.

Shadowperla:

--- Quote from: Taffeta on June 16, 2024, 01:09:45 PM ---Somewhere I have a back up disk of so many messages from those from an old computer when I rebooted it but I doubt I'd be able to open the format now.

--- End quote ---

You should, all kind of readers and convertors exist :3

2003pony:
I'm wanting to set up a website/wiki about the G3 in this vintage style. Well, I was born in 2003 and in Brazil there were many blogs about my little pony hosted on blogspot at the time I started surfing the internet, G3 was at the end there in 2007/2010 and G4 was starting I miss these sites about my little pony aesthetic was so cool. :awake:

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