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'''CWC's Pokésite 1''', originally referred to simply as '''CWC's Pokésite''', was a website with news and links on [[Pokémon]] created by [[Christian Weston Chandler]]. It was Chris's first babystep towards his long career of website-making. The page was launched somewhere between April | '''CWC's Pokésite 1''', originally referred to simply as '''CWC's Pokésite''', was a website with news and links on ''[[Pokémon]]'' created by [[Christian Weston Chandler]]. It was Chris's first babystep towards his long career of website-making. The page was launched somewhere between 25 April [[1999]] (when the domain was reserved) and 3 July 1999 (when Chris got the first replies in his guestbook, from his parents). | ||
The quality of the site | The quality of the site was actually relatively good; judging from the source code, it appears to be based on a pre-built template from AcmeCity's "HomeBuilder", and was possibly made under adult supervision as a [[high school]] project, since one guestbook entry was left by what seems to be a teacher. Chris lost interest in the project quite soon, and by the end of July 1999, it had already been replaced by the much more amateurish-looking [[CWC's Pokésite 2]], with its notorious hand-crafted HTML. | ||
The actual content of the website is lost aside from three pages.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20000606031644/http://homes.acmecity.com/games/demo/190/GameShark.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20000606110946/http://homes.acmecity.com:80/games/demo/190/GameShark2.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20000606132641/http://homes.acmecity.com:80/games/demo/190/junglecards.html</ref> The site did have a Spanish translation, El PokéSite de RWC, as a dead archive link of the site exists.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010801000000*/http://games.acmecity.com/demo/190/Espanol.html</ref> Fortunately for those who are interested in the uselessness of Chris's high school Spanish grammar, his translation of his second ''Pokémon'' site has been preserved. | |||
The site | |||
==See | ==See also== | ||
*[[CWC's Pokésite 2]] | *[[CWC's Pokésite 2]] | ||
*[[Sonichu.net]] | *[[Sonichu.net]] | ||
==External | ==External links== | ||
[http://web.archive.org/web/19990902144020/http://pokemon.acmecity.com/james/190/ Archive.org's copy of the site] | * [http://web.archive.org/web/19990902144020/http://pokemon.acmecity.com/james/190/ Archive.org's copy of the site] (redirects to an error page) | ||
[http://web.archive.org/web/20001021022214/neptune.guestworld.lycos.com/wgb/wgbview.dbm?owner=Starytime The site's guestbook] | * [http://web.archive.org/web/20001021022214/neptune.guestworld.lycos.com/wgb/wgbview.dbm?owner=Starytime The site's guestbook]<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:17, 27 May 2023
| “ | CWC's Pokesite in construction! | ” |
| -Chris, tumbling into the abyss of 90's website clichés | ||
CWC's Pokésite 1, originally referred to simply as CWC's Pokésite, was a website with news and links on Pokémon created by Christian Weston Chandler. It was Chris's first babystep towards his long career of website-making. The page was launched somewhere between 25 April 1999 (when the domain was reserved) and 3 July 1999 (when Chris got the first replies in his guestbook, from his parents).
The quality of the site was actually relatively good; judging from the source code, it appears to be based on a pre-built template from AcmeCity's "HomeBuilder", and was possibly made under adult supervision as a high school project, since one guestbook entry was left by what seems to be a teacher. Chris lost interest in the project quite soon, and by the end of July 1999, it had already been replaced by the much more amateurish-looking CWC's Pokésite 2, with its notorious hand-crafted HTML.
The actual content of the website is lost aside from three pages.[1][2][3] The site did have a Spanish translation, El PokéSite de RWC, as a dead archive link of the site exists.[4] Fortunately for those who are interested in the uselessness of Chris's high school Spanish grammar, his translation of his second Pokémon site has been preserved.
See also
External links
- Archive.org's copy of the site (redirects to an error page)
- The site's guestbook
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000606031644/http://homes.acmecity.com/games/demo/190/GameShark.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000606110946/http://homes.acmecity.com:80/games/demo/190/GameShark2.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000606132641/http://homes.acmecity.com:80/games/demo/190/junglecards.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010801000000*/http://games.acmecity.com/demo/190/Espanol.html