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<b>Planet Daria</b>, run by [[Rowena Stubbs]], was among the first <i>Daria</i> websites and possibly the first comprehensive fan
==Background==
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During this time, an adjacent landscape appeared, and this new media already in danger of becoming a wasteland in its own right. This was the commercial Internet, and with it came in 1993 the World Wide Web. In less than five years, this new media was already on its way to becoming a desert of commercial websites, endless ads, spam and porn. But from all this, a digital stream emerged, and crossed over into the plain of its much older and more analog neighbor.</p>
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It was at the confluence of MTV animation and the new digital media that something truly remarkable happened. Websites began to spawn and multiply, starting first with a corporate site from MTV, but then also from the many fans of the new series. Many fans began building their binary web nests on newly available “free” hosting services. Dozens, no,
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But out of this fertile mud arose giants. These sites grew with original content and as they received more and more “hits” from other fans, these fans massed together to provide even more content and grew the core site even more. Hence, the first “megasites” evolved, and soon these gentle giants became the undisputed masters of their digital domain.
Between the time the
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All three sites died in a sudden mass extinction in second half of 1998. [[Sick, Sad World]], hosted by [[Wraith]] and [[alt.lawndale.com]], hosted by [[Katherine Goodman]] have remained intact, un-updated, and yet preserved, as if in amber, in their 1998 state. But Planet Daria has completely vanished, leaving behind only tiny fragments of long dead links.
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It was during this period the author discovered another use for his computer other than the trapping and subsequent disposal of email spam for porn sites and various enlargement devices. Between the screeching and hissing of his modem which occurred each time the phone company saw fit to drop his connection, he discovered first the smaller sites that featured regurgitated MTV content, and then links that took him finally to the fabled Planet Daria.</p>
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There he discovered the message board. First, the author used the screen name of Frank Black, but when “Quinn the Brain” aired in March of 1998, he changed is screen name to Milo Minderbinder, after realizing Daria was reading “Catch 22” on her bed in that episode. Hence he joined other fans of the show;
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But the site kept moving, and the bookmarks on each
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As for the lack of artifacts from these earlier sites, it should be remembered that in these pioneering days, due to the lack of space overall, leaving a site meant all files were deleted. Or, where the service didn’t bother removing the old files, an inevitable disk crash on the site would.</p>
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==Boner==
<p>All Eden’s have their snakes, and Planet Daria had one it could call its very own. The screen name was Boner, and this serpent found its way to the message board and started flaming away at many of its inhabitants. Most tried to ignore Boner, but others let him get under their skin. (Boner claimed he was a female lesbian of Manchurian ancestry, but his IP address put in a suburb of Bakersfield, CA, and his behavior put him as male, at age 30, still living in his
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Boner had an affinity for Chris Smith, who gave him the attention he craved, and Rowena had to now take time out her already hectic schedule to moderate, and delete entire threads from the message board. Sometimes, due to the flimsy nature of anything labeled “free”, the entire board would be lost, causing much tearing of virtual hair and gnashing of virtual teeth when the board came back up. Updates of the site started falling off, giving Boner a reason to foully attack Rowena, causing more board deletions and more site delays. It was obvious by June of that year something was going to change.</p>
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Diezel Monkey would return briefly to Daria fandom, and moved his new message board to Lawndale Commons. There, the author signed in, questioned some of the rules, and was immediately censored and removed from the board. The author then moved to the Helpful Corn message board, long abandoned by one of the smaller sites, and completely un-moderated and uncensored (the password had been lost). Hilarity would soon ensue, but that is another tale of another site.</p>
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The author does not know what became of Rowena Stubbs. She is long out of school, and no effort was made by the author to locate her on the web. If she
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The author himself eventually began to write fan fiction and create fan art, and posted these on [[Outpost Daria]], [[Glitter Berries]] and the [[Contrarian's Corner]]. He was a frequent poster on the [[Paperpusher's Message Board]]. Eventually, the author got a life.</p>
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==External Links==
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[[Category:Websites]]
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