The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
You may be looking for The Lurker's Den, a Babylon 5 "online webzine."
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Steven Grimm |
| Dates: | 1993-present (last updated in 2007) |
| Type: | information |
| Fandom: | Babylon 5 |
| URL: | http://midwinter.com/lurk/ |
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The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 is probably THE most legendary Babylon 5 website.
From the site's About section:
The Lurker's Guide is a volunteer effort encompassing documents maintained by many Babylon 5 fans, as well as a lot of original material not found elsewhere. It's not associated in any kind of official way with the show (but thanks for thinking so!)It started off before the airing of the pilot movie as a simple HTMLized version of the Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List, and in fact a lot of the FAQ List's text can still be found here. Once the series began airing, maintaining a huge monolithic document became impractical, and the Lurker's Guide was born.[1]
Before the age of Wikipedia, the website was the most important source of information for B5 fans with its extensive episode guide that had not just episode summaries, but also an analysis section that collected information about the show's storyarc both from the episodes themselves and from JMS's comments on usenet.
Fan Comments
1995
World Wide Web
If you have WWW access (let's admit it, it looks good if nothing else), then you might want to cast an eye over some of the following sites.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of Babylon 5 related WWW sites out on the net, and many of these contain similar, if not the same files as one-another. To ease your journey, we've tried to boil the list down to sites with original and interesting information. Because of our shrewdness, we're sure that you will find that the ubiquitous "J. Blogg's B5 page" isn't featured within this listing.
Not only are we willing to sift through the thousands of URL for you, but we'll also give you a brief summary of the site's contents.
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The Lurker's Guide is the definitive WWW site for anything B5 related. It is home to the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (rastb5) FAQ, a very good episode sysnopsis, the Hyperion sound & image archives and a trillion other things. If I could say "never leave home without it", I would...
Oh hell, "never leave home without it" :) [2]
References
- ^ About the Guide, accessed May 4th, 2013.
- ^ From umtsb5 Frequently Asked Questions and Other Information (November 25, 1995)