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In terms of content, Chris's Sonichu site was almost identical to his Pokesite. There were links to game reviews, his [[Sonichu's News Dash!]], his [[Wall of Originals|original Sonic cards]], and most importantly, a link to his "About the Author" page. The centered text didn't even play up Sonichu | In terms of content, Chris's Sonichu site was almost identical to his Pokesite. There were links to game reviews, his [[Sonichu's News Dash!]], his [[Wall of Originals|original Sonic cards]], and most importantly, a link to his "About the Author" page. Guests could listen to a remixed version of "Sonic Boom" The main visual portrayed Sonic and Sonichu as equals, and the centered text didn't even play up Sonichu. It read simply: | ||
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Please visit again for many Updates, be sure to Bookmark us, and be sure to tell your friends about us, too. And, Please sign my Guestbook.}} | Please visit again for many Updates, be sure to Bookmark us, and be sure to tell your friends about us, too. And, Please sign my Guestbook.}} | ||
As Chris created new minor sites over the years, like his [[Hot Wheels]] page and his [[Transformers|Bionicle]] site, he provided links. In 2002, he added something called "The Sonichu Chronicles Slideshow." In general, he does not seem to have given much attention to the site during its first several years. | |||
===The influence of the [[Love Quest]]=== | |||
In 2003 and 2004, Chris's life became focused on the Love Quest, and in early 2004, he reinvented the Sonichu Site as a platform for advertising himself and his artistic geinus. | |||
{{quotebox|*We interrupt this view with a special bulliten, the Sonichu Site is finally updated with all new GameCube and Game Boy Advance information. 8) | |||
And the All New Sonichu's News Dash! Newsletter!}} | |||
The reinvigorated News Dash, of course, was more than anything else a tool to acquire a girlfriend. Chris also added his romantic fantasy [[Sonichu & Rosechu… The Genesis of the Lovehogs]]. His "About the Author" section was updated to include one of his first lists of qualifications for a sweetheart. He also highlighted Sonichu's first appearance in Nintendo Power magazine, and the later "personal ad" in the magazine in which he discussed his [[noviophobia]]. By 2006, the central visual on the site was a cartoon representation of Chris himself, and the "About the Author" section was the first and most important link, given priority even over [[Sonichu 0|issue #0 of Sonichu]]. | |||
Revision as of 19:08, 17 February 2015
CWC's Sonichu Site! (full title: The Official & The Originial [sic] From Christian Weston Chandler the Sonichu and Rosechu Site!) was Chris's homepage for the Sonichu franchise. It existed in various incarnations from 2000 to August 2009, and was a regular target of hacking by trolls following Chris's discovery in 2007. Half a decade later, Chris's Facebook friends helped him make a new site, which was pretty much nonfunctional and error-ridden during its astonishing 10-day life.
Design
Chris liked to harp on how he took two HTML classes and likes to construct his page on Netscape Composer, a mercifully discontinued software product. It is fairly obvious that either the HTML classes didn't teach good web design principles, or Chris slept through those sections.
The main hub of the Sonichu site was the front page. Chris dumped everything on the front page, all of the content centered. Chris also added things to the page in random places with little thought as to where they would go, and didn't really have the time and energy to update the page. In its later incarnations, the page had mentions of Animal Crossing material, Chris's changes to the comic, and had "Copyright CWC and Nintendo", long after the end of the Miyamoto Saga.
Chris's site also boasted that it was a member of the "Super Sonic Webring"; closer inspection reveals that Chris's site is not listed as a member of the webring, and Chris failed to insert the correct codes (i.e., he failed to put in his member ID, leaving "_SITE_ID_HERE_" in the links) — this simple failure to follow very simple setup instructions may have been why he was not approved as a member, as Webring owners usually checked this. His Fastcounter link is also broken. In its earliest incarnations Chris had a MIDI playing in the background, just to get that old Web 1.0 feel.
Sonichu-Fans (2008)
Sonichu-Fans was a small sub-site of Sonichu.net, created by PandaHalo, and meant for use by Chris's fans. Most of the site's features were never really created. Its most notable feature was "Sonichu fan chat", a Java IRC applet that connected to Rizon's #sonichu channel. In the days following its introduction, Chris appeared in the fan chat in person a few times.
Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack (early 2009 - May 2009)
- Main article: Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack
After the nuclear winter following the release of Sonichu #8, Chris made a solemn promise not to release any more naughty imagery. Naturally, he had to break this vow when he found out about the Sonichu Girls forum and wanted to impress the members.
Content
Earliest Appearance
In terms of content, Chris's Sonichu site was almost identical to his Pokesite. There were links to game reviews, his Sonichu's News Dash!, his original Sonic cards, and most importantly, a link to his "About the Author" page. Guests could listen to a remixed version of "Sonic Boom" The main visual portrayed Sonic and Sonichu as equals, and the centered text didn't even play up Sonichu. It read simply:
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Welcome... To my new Sonic the Hedgehog Site! Enjoy your visit. 8) Please visit again for many Updates, be sure to Bookmark us, and be sure to tell your friends about us, too. And, Please sign my Guestbook. |
As Chris created new minor sites over the years, like his Hot Wheels page and his Bionicle site, he provided links. In 2002, he added something called "The Sonichu Chronicles Slideshow." In general, he does not seem to have given much attention to the site during its first several years.
The influence of the Love Quest
In 2003 and 2004, Chris's life became focused on the Love Quest, and in early 2004, he reinvented the Sonichu Site as a platform for advertising himself and his artistic geinus.
| *We interrupt this view with a special bulliten, the Sonichu Site is finally updated with all new GameCube and Game Boy Advance information. 8)
And the All New Sonichu's News Dash! Newsletter! |
The reinvigorated News Dash, of course, was more than anything else a tool to acquire a girlfriend. Chris also added his romantic fantasy Sonichu & Rosechu… The Genesis of the Lovehogs. His "About the Author" section was updated to include one of his first lists of qualifications for a sweetheart. He also highlighted Sonichu's first appearance in Nintendo Power magazine, and the later "personal ad" in the magazine in which he discussed his noviophobia. By 2006, the central visual on the site was a cartoon representation of Chris himself, and the "About the Author" section was the first and most important link, given priority even over issue #0 of Sonichu.
Hosting history
Primordial origins (August 2000 - 2007)
The original incarnation of the Sonichu Site was hosted on the near-legendary free host for crappy personal web pages, Tripod, at http://sonichuchandler.tripod.com/cwcson.htm (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sonichuchandler.tripod.com/cwcson.htm). As the site was launched back when it was not yet a crime to violate aesthetics and common sense in web design, Chris's page blended right in. Before this, CWC's Pokésite 1 and CWC's Pokésite 2 were hosted on AcmeCity (go.com), another popular host for ineptly cobbled-together personal pages.
Chris even reminisces about his "Sonichu Site Filing Facility Hosted by Tripod" in issue #10 — not that it makes any frigging sense. It is probably just some sort of a comic-page manifestation of a psychotic break. He even calls this "burning the Tripod bridge". The fact that trolls hacked the site must have been particularly traumatizing to Chris.
In the comic, Chris-Chan Sonichu defeats some devil trolls, moves his files away from Tripod and bombs the crap out of the site, then says "Tripod was weak, in security, and it lacked the support for Flash media, anyway". In truth, Chris's site was hacked entirely due to his weak passwords and sloppy security practices (for example, in security questions, he has put in answers that could be looked up from the web; everyone knows his favorite film). And fascinatingly enough, CWCipedia doesn't support Flash either — otherwise, we'd be thrilled to see what kind of craziness his two HTML classes could inspire him to create in Flash.
sonichu.net (2007 - January 2009)
Established in 2007 sometime after trolls registered sonichu.com (in Christian's words, "nothing but net."). Was hacked at least twice (read: Chris gave out his passwords). Sonichu.net was hacked in January 2009 by Gregg Mays, prompting Chris to show his fangs. The domain was sold on eBay and is currently used to host a parody CWCville homepage. In February 2010, it became a redirect to Meatspin.
sonichu.info (January 2009)
Quickly established in January 2009 to replace sonichu.net, and just as quickly hacked. The site now redirects to sonichu.110mb.com. When the man takes you away, do not resist.
sonichuandrosechu.com (Early 2009 - August 2009)
After a hiatus Chris finally relaunched his site here. It lasted a little longer until he gave his password to Julie with predictable results. This incarnation is most notable for seeing the debut of Chris's official Rule 34 section, Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack. As of October, the site is now a redirect to other websites.
cwcville.com (April 2009 - May 2009)
After another hiatus, Chris relaunched his site at this new domain on 9 April 2009. Since Chris doesn't know how to manage the mess of links he has created, some remain broken such as the one to Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack, so you'd have to change the domain name to visit it. Da major update he made to this site was to paste his autobiography after it got deleted from Wikipedia.
On 15 May 2009 it was hacked yet again, and featured gay pride imagery and a message that demanded the completion of Sonichu #9. This was later replaced with images of Joshua Martinez and Vanessa Hudgens, some of the pictures suggesting that they have some sort of a relationship.
spergweb.com/SonichuOnline (November 2014)
On 20 November 2014, Chris's Facebook white knight Kenneth Englehart (affectionately known among Christorians as "Kengle") created the first Sonichu website in 5 years, on which Chris could dump his blue arm ramblings. While this motive may at first seem in line with those of Chris's trolls--motivating Chris to produce new content remains a unanimous goal among them--Kengle's reasoning for setting up the site is rather more unusual. As a 56-year-old man who still lives with his parents, Kengle's primary goal in life is/was to befriend Chris by giving him a safe-space to vent the tard-rage trigger of the day. At the time of its creation, the site was barely functional, and drenched in the amateurish 90s HTML stylings that only two unemployed adult autists could achieve. At least one page was created (http://www.spergweb.com/SonichuOnline/Profiles%20and%20Biography.html) which was Chris's partial biography page directly copied from his Wikipedia profile. Links suggested that the site would contain Sonichu character profiles, the comics themselves and other classic Chris content. Note that although the site was meant to be about the lore of Sonichu, Ken only ever bothered to make the vanity page about Chris himself.
The site also contained a forum with very strict moderation--some users from the CWCki Forums made accounts so they could dick around, but found that the site had ceased to exist before they had their accounts verified. Presumably, Ken intended to coerce Chris into posting, but of course it never happened.
The page received DDoS attacks from weens almost immediately after creation, and it later began providing the user with 404 errors. Ken had inexplicably hosted the site on the domain "spergweb.com". It is not clear why Ken chose this domain to host a site for Chris, a guy known for being a notorious Asperger hater, or even why he would own it at all. Chris expressed a general distrust of the site, no doubt thanks to the domain name. One of Chris's white knights at the ass-patting Keep Sonic Original festival stated that it was being "redesigned".
The website is now a redirect to a generic "This domain is available for sale" screen, indicating the website has now been shut down permanently. Kengle confirmed this on his Facebook, claiming that he has "other things going on in life", what with his stamp collecting and all. It's more likely that Kengle saw Chris's complaint about the site as some kind of threat to their potential friendship and immediately nuked the site, so as not to offend Great Director Chandler. This makes Spergweb the most short-lived website Chris (not counting his Facebook friends) has ever technically owned, lasting a mere 10 days on the web. If anything, it's probably the most short-lived website in the history of computing.
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See also
- Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack
- The OFFICIAL Sonichu & Rosechu Blog
- Sonichu.com
- Chris and the Internet
External links