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<p>On June 1998, [[Gifted]] aired, and it was once again revealed to the waiting fan base that Daria was not the smartest, most savvy inhabitant of the planet. She was not the intellectual equal of first Ted, and now she was shown to be intellectually equal or behind the students of the gifted school. In the next episode, [[Ill]] a skin rash reduces her to hiding in a bathroom stall. At this stage both Katherine and Wrath officially stopped updating their sites, with Katherine publicly lamenting the lost of quality in the show. Planet Daria remained as the one and only remaining “mega site”. Some fans starts drifting away to other fandoms, but those that remain begin to converge on the only game left in town.</p>
==The Frames ==
<p>On many of the smaller sites, there were two images of Daria taken from “the Invitation”, one wearing glasses, and one without. These were always followed by the words:</p>[[Image:Frames.jpg]]
<p>Browsers that support Frames, click here.</p>[[Image:Noframes.jpg]]
<p>Browsers that do not support Frames, click here.</p><p>Since the day Netscape (remember them) unleashed the horror of frames on the World Wide Web, many of the smaller sites incorporated them, in effect creating two sites, one with frames that would remain updated, and one without, that would from that point on, would not.</p>
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As the fall of 1998 was ending and the cold winter of Planet Daria began, the site, which had never followed the chrome and glitz trends of the past was in full lockstep with them now. The “frames/noframes” page met you at the door, and after upgrading to a browser that supported them (a painful exercise in those days), I went to the newly updated side of the house.
It was full of moving panels, java clocks that displayed exactly the same time as the tiny clock on the right lower half of the authors computer, and icons that did annoying things as you moused over them. The author had already started his search for another place to go. But he didn’t leave until the final act.</p>
==Whining==
It was, of course, at this time that Planet Daria was receiving the most attention from the outside world. An animation magazine pronounced it number 5 on its “Best Of” list, beating out John K.’s Spumco web site (at number 8), which was filled with original content continuously. Other “Best Of” awards arrived at the door, and Rowena announced that there would be complete updates of content every Wednesday from that point on.
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