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“	CWC's Pokesite in construction!	”
-Chris, tumbling into the abyss of 90's website clichés

The site in question.

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 Chris lost interest in the project quite soon, and by the end of July 1999, it had already been replaced by the much more amateurish-looking CWC's Pokésite 2, with its notorious hand-crafted HTML.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.

External links

Archive.org's copy of the site (redirects to an error page)
The site's guestbook

[1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20000606031644/http://homes.acmecity.com/games/demo/190/GameShark.html

[2] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20000606110946/http://homes.acmecity.com:80/games/demo/190/GameShark2.html

[3] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20000606132641/http://homes.acmecity.com:80/games/demo/190/junglecards.html

[4] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20010801000000*/http://games.acmecity.com/demo/190/Espanol.html

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-{{quote|CWC's Pokesite in construction!|-Chris, tumbling into the abyss of 90's website cliches}}
+{{quote|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''', is 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 25 [[1999]] (when the domain was reserved) and July 3 1999 (when Chris got the first replies in his guestbook, from his parents). The quality of the site is actually relatively good, leading to the assumption that it was made as a school project, supported by a guestbook entry 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 amateur-looking [[CWC's Pokésite 2]].
+[[File:Pokesite1.PNG|thumb|right|The site in question.]]
-==El PokéSite de RWC==
+'''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 site apparently had a Spanish translation, El PokéSite de RWC<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20000520005332/homepages.go.com/~christianchandler/RWCste.htm</ref>. There are, however, no traces left of this page, but this doesn't really matter as his Spanish grammar was probably shitty as usual.
-==See Also==
+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.
+==See also==
 *[[CWC's Pokésite 2]]
 *[[Sonichu.net]]
-==External Links==
+==External links==
-[http://web.archive.org/web/19990902144020/http://pokemon.acmecity.com/james/190/ Archive.org's copy of the site]<br>
+* [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>
-==References==
-<references />
-{{Stub}}
+{{The Internet}}
 [[Category:Chris's websites]]
+[[Category:Lost Media]]

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