One of the thing that stands out when I think back to the early web design is the fan pages that existed. It seemed like everyone and their mother had a fan page dedicated to some TV show, most likely from the following list: Dawson's Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Charmed, Roswell, or The X-Files. These pages were full of love, strange graphics, and all sorts of crazed fandom. I watched Charmed and Dawson's Creek, but the other shows I came to admire later in life after these websites were old news. So a hobby of mine is to perform some digital archeaology and dig up the bones of these old fansites and explore what the author admired about the show, was thinking, or writing. Sadly, pretty much all of these sites died between 1997-2003, but parts of them remain as a snapshot of pop culture for all to see if you know where to look.

Below is a sort of directory for old websites still online. I'll slowly be organizing them by topic and adding more as I come across them. I also plan to save some graphics and other design elements as sort of a tribute to these past fansites. They may not look like much now, but at one time, these sites were important parts of people's lives. I hope by shining some light onto some of these, I can honor the sites and the hard work that went into creating them.