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Related: I recently discovered the "fanlisting scene". In the early 2000s, some people started a trend of creating fan sites (a.k.a. shrines) for characters in
by phendrenad2 3y ago
Related: I recently discovered the "fanlisting scene". In the early 2000s, some people started a trend of creating fan sites (a.k.a. shrines) for characters in TV shows, anime, games, etc. These sites ran on simple PHP codebases, such as Enthusiast, PHPFanBase, and BellaBuffs. Someone interviewed one of the developers here: https://hey.georgie.nu/hg-jem/ https://hey.georgie.nu/hg-jem/ (For some reason fanlistings tended to use .nu domains, because it was cool I guess).
Most of these fanlistings (and also the massive number of forums running on vbulletin and phpbb in the early 2000s) were created not by software developers, but people who had a passion. It was a road that a lot of people, especially girls, took to get into software development. I think that gender parity in software development might have hit a record high during that time.