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This alone is all that remains of Planet Daria as of the date of this writing.</p>
==In the Beginning==
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The image on the right is a reproduction of the original Planet Daria logo. This was reproduced using the much smaller link below. This link icon was found on an old, abandoned fan site. The logo was originally created by Rowena from a screen capture from “The Misery Chick”, also reproduced below.</p>
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The web mistress was Rowena Stubbs, who was a full time college student at this time. </p>
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The author first discovered Daria on MTV in January of 1998, during a blizzard which confined him to his home and the warming glow of his television. An animation marathon was in progress on MTV, and during this marathon the author saw his first full Daria episode, “The Road Worrier”. Fascinated by this unexpected presentation of intelligent content in such an unexpected place (and an uncanny parallel to a van trip the author took to see a band in his callow youth), the author proceeded to tape (using the primitive VHS technology of that era) the reminding shows of the first season, and prepared for “Daria Day” in February, which would unveil Season 2. </p>
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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; Azalea, Splendora, SMC, Chris Smith (Kane), the Historian, Ms. Wild, Dr. Belch, and many others.</p>
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But the site kept moving, and the bookmarks on each fans browsers struggled to keep up. Rowena originally used several of the free services, starting with freemall.com, earthlink.net and welcome.to, and then moving to opni.com and finally geocites.com. Planet Daria was a victim of its own success. Free hosting in those bygone days meant you got maybe 5 or 10 megabytes of hard drive on the host server, and paid dearly for any overage. The backend machines of that time were large, slow beasts with maybe 10 to 20 gigabytes total available storage. If you wanted more than that, you had to pay, or hire [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film) Johnny Mnemonic].</p>
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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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