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| Name: | Area51 - Science Fiction, Fantasy |
| Owner/Maintainer: | |
| Dates: | April 1996 – 1999 |
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| Fandom: | science fiction, RPG, net fandom |
| URL: | Area51 Community Leaders Page https://geocities.restorativland.org/Area51/ http://geocities.com/Area51/ Index of /Area51 |
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Area51 was a neighborhood in the GeoCities site, where several fansites were hosted in their suburbs.
Some suburbs – fansites – of the Area51 have been archived under Wayback Machine, Oocities, ReoCities – the project The Geocities Gallery at restorativland by Jacques Mattheij – and others.
See Fanlore's List of GeoCities Fansites. For a full listing of articles on Fanlore see Category:GeoCities
Content Index
- Area511125: Not sure whether to tune in to tonight’s Star Trek reruns? A moment with the Concise Star Trek Episode Guide may help you decide
- Area51/1113: Science fiction and fantasy book reviews.
- Area51/1276: Do aliens and UFOs really exist? These pictures may convince you
- Area512442: Vote for your favorite X-Files episode!
- Area51/2593: Peter's Fantasy and SF homepage is dedicated to his favorite science fiction authors.
- Area512632: Gillian Anderson lets her hair down.
- Area513897: Welcome, young Jedi, to Master Yoda's home page.
- Area51/4800: A tribute to sanitation-engineer-space-hero Roger Wilco.
- Area51/5777: The Tales of Teyle is an original role playing game for people who enjoy writing stories.
- Area516037: Take a tour through Jaglin's World of Fantasy.
- Area51/6754: A fan page for Lady Death and other Chaos!
- Area51/Cavern/1001
- Area51/Dreamworld
- Area51/Vault/1219: Drop into Buckaroo Banzai's Bureau of Paranormal Activity.
- Area51/Vault/3997: Pictures and images from Independence Day and the real Area51.
| Neighborhood | Subneighborhood |
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| Area51 |
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Fan Comments
[Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop]
[…] (my first virtual “home” was in Area 51—for those unfamiliar, that was once the designated space for science fiction fandom and home to many writers of another important form of electronic literature—fan fiction). My GeoCities site was populated by animated GIFs “adopted” from online artists, webrings links to other preteens and teenagers with rambling, and confessional web pages filled with fandom, and most of my early writing (such as it was) was done in the collaborative, free-form space of a role-playing chatroom in my first fandom. (Which fandom is irrelevant and omitted here for self-preservation. OK, it was Mummies Alive!) Thankfully, any and all record of this appears to have been erased by the death of the old-school web (reader: do not view this as a challenge, please). These websites gave birth to the similarly aesthetically challenged chaos of MySpace, which similarly featured the web-1.0 look of clashing backgrounds, bad animation, and lots of flashing and moving parts[1]
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Notes & References
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References
- ^ Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives, by Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop (2021), Chapter 2-T2, pg. 79-80