Showerthought: my nephew called my old Tripod fan page 'a wiki nobody edited' and I can't stop thinking about it

Mary Garcia · 2026-09-15T14:35:06.41678+00:00

My nephew is 19 and I showed him my Lord of the Rings fan page from 1998, guestbook and all, and he just stared for a bit. Then he said it looked like "a wiki nobody edited, but sad." I laughed at first, but driving home I kept turning it over. Back on Tripod in 1999 I spent maybe 40 hours building that thing with raw HTML and a hit counter, and I felt like I ran a real place. His whole take is that a page is dead unless people add to it, and I guess my guestbook was the closest thing we had to that. So here is my real question for this group: did your old pages feel more alive because they never changed, or is he right that they were just frozen?

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