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Generally I've contribuited odds and ends to various articles. I singlehandedly made the page of the Karas anime, if that's worthy of note. I am also an administrator of n2, an offshoot of PNMB.
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[edit] Planet Namek (since it appears the article will be deleted
Planet Namek (formerly at planetnamek.com) was a Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT fansite founded in the late 1990s by "Mr. E" (James Guillochon).
The name was derived from Planet Namek, one of the main planets in Dragon Ball Z. He was soon joined by "SkullMac" (Brad Smith) and later by "Kaio" (Reid Sheridan), and while these three teenagers were working on the site it reached its apex of popularity (late 1999 and early 2000), receiving approximately 40,000 hits per day.
The GameFan network, which was hosting Planet Namek, soon began to collapse, and the site jumped around to various servers which Mr. E paid for out of pocket. The expenses quickly overwhelmed him, however, and the site was shut down in February 2002. Planet Namek gained notoriety among Dragon Ball fans through its wide selection of media, series information, expansive forums, and daily news updates.
Prior to its demise, the site was also joined by Jonathan Allen and Wikipedia editor Julian Grybowski.
Many fans of the site continued to access its content via the Internet Archive, an online archive of websites. However, the current owner of Planet Namek's domain has made a robots.txt file excluding the archive robot, and the files are no longer accessible.
[edit] The forums
In mid-2000, due to the popularity of Gundam Wing and Rurouni Kenshin on the Planet Namek forums, two spinoff websites based on the site's format, Gundam Lounge and Kenshin Web were founded. By early 2001, however, hosting, cost, and content issues plagued the sites, resulting in the shutdown of both by June of that year.
The forums of Planet Namek, known as PNMB, had its own culture, like many forums with large memberships are apt to have. Notably, it spawned a series of short flash movies made by a member named Gutcruncher, including important events such as when a member named Bebi became a moderator and had a power trip, or the shutdown of the website itself. This "culture" lives on in two new message boards founded by Planet Namek Message Board members advertised upon Namek's closure, including [1] Shadows of Namek, now Shadows of Nothing and [2] Otaku Haven, and Anime Rebirth. Otaku Haven and Anime Rebirth merged in 2003 to become [3] Guilty Parties. The two sites share a number of members, and a friendly rivalry characterizes their coexistence.
[edit] Neonamek.com
PNMB also had a role playing and "sparring" community who in turn started their own semi-successful community called NeoNamek, or n2, in early 2002. N2 is run by Lucas Wolf, known as NeoWolf on the forums, and is joined by many other ex-members of PNMB in the running and maintinence of the forums, as well as many newcomers.
Neonamek has its own webcomic known as "n2 teh comic!" and is a purposely poorly drawn webcomic that tells an epic story of how n2 came to be overrun by zombies, though it has not been updated in quite some time. Currently the story is as yet unresolved.
Recently, n2 made the decision to host the forums of the Swiss MMORPG called "Nowhere Else and Beyond", run by Garg. Though this brought in a large influx of new members, these NEaB players, sometimes known as Neebers, have not integrated themselves with the rest of the forum as hoped, but have kept to themselves and are at a cool antagonism with the "n2 folk", as the denziens of n2 are occasionally known.
[edit] External links
- Guilty Partiesa site that was created by merging two spinoff forums, Otaku Haven and Anime Rebirth.
- NeoNameka spin off on the role playing community in PNMB.
- Shadows of Nothing Another somewhat related forum; formerly Shadows of Namek.
- Yue's Article fer j00 An article on the history and nature of online roleplay resulting from the PNMB roleplay community.
