> What was Everything2 supposed to be? Aw, man. The perennial question of that site. What was it supposed to be, really? Roughly, it was just about anything th

> What was Everything2 supposed to be? Aw, man. The perennial question of that site. What was it supposed to be, really? Roughly, it was just about anything that you could express with basic HTML and pure text. No images, no videos. It was, * An online encyclopedia before Wikipedia * A meme central before 4chan * A social network before Facebook * A blogging platform before blogs and several other things. About the only thing it wasn't was a news aggregator, because that was already covered by Slashdot by the same crowd. Its fashions changed with the ebb and flow of users and admins. It was a sister site of Slashdot (at a time, Slashdot would link to everything2 articles in order to define terms), and also associated to sites like the defunct JavaJunkies and the somehow still living Perlmonks, which shared the Everything engine as a codebase. The idea was to monetise the engine like Wordpress and Drupal later did, but this never happened, and Blockstackers Intergalactic folded soon after that. Somehow, Everything2 is still up.