Who Remembers: AudioGalaxy
Back at the start of the Millennium, I was on a very different Blue Site.
It was technically a music indexing service, evolved from FTP, for peer to peer music transfers and streaming. That P2P feature was what got it in trouble after Napster fell because, well, copyrights. And the RIAA threw a fit and within a month, bam, basically no more music in the summer of '02.
It took longer to die, though. Because there was more to it than music transfers. At least, for some of us. Sure, we landed there because of the lure of finding anime soundtracks back when you couldn't import them.
But there were also the Message Boards. Technically for music discussion but the one where I made my home? RP central. 18 years later I'm still in touch with some of the friends I made there. Heck, I married one of them! It's where I really got into creative writing.
Technically it was the Gundam Wing board but... yeah we were a genre and crossover MESS. Vampires, space pirates, werewolves, demon hunters, angel-demon-human-shinigami hybrids, fae, draconians, and at least a few catgirls. And occassionally Treize Kushrenada but he stuck mostly to the Actual Gundam RP threads.
Anyway. Felt nostalgic. Anyone else here from the original blue garbage fire?
Heck, anyone else here a refugee from G'Wimb? Kitz Kijo / Calmyhra / Ladyhawke Eve says Hi. She married RP hubby SilentStorm for real, btw :3
I rather miss some of the old shenanigans, but I won't name names.