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- It started when I first came to internet back in November
1998. That was the summer Pokemon first came to America. Back
then I loved that show. I collected the cards and such, but I
wanted more. On the net I found a Pokemon related message board.
It was only one week old, but it was already packed with lots of
people. People started their own clubs. I joined a lesser known
club; The Pokemon Master's Alliance, the PMA. Digimon first
aired on Fox Kids the very next summer. I laughed my ass off at
that show. I thought it was just some Pokemon rip-off. I started
to like it, but being a Pokemon fan I denied it. November
25, 1999 I made a yahoo club for the PMA. As time went on I
really started to like Digimon. It was during the end of the
Myotismon arc that I made the..... |
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- Master's or Masters? Is it the alliance of a bunch of masters
or one master's alliance? The DMA was first a yahoo club with
very few members. We mostly talked about useless stuff. Like
"Who is your favorite Digimon?" I wanted more out of the
DMA. I then made an EZboard called the AMA, Anime Masters
Alliance. I wanted to make a series of sites for different
animes. That idea failed. I couldn't even manage my two failing
clubs. I decided to shut down the PMA and use all my time to
make the DMA club big. That idea also failed. I then decided to make
a DMA site. I didn't know anything about html though. The computer I
had then had all the popular programs to make a good site, but I
had no idea how to use them. So I had to use the most simplest
of the simplest programs. Front Page 98. I had planed the site
to be released January 2000. That was during the half point of
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- DMA Ver. 1 was an ugly piece of shit. It had an ugly banner
that I made using Word Font Art. The layout was very basic. I
used the black for the back ground, white for the text, navy
blue for header cells and black for other cells. My friend from
that Pokemon board, where the PMA started (by then the board
turned into the normal message board), made me a very nice
banner and let me use one of his layouts. I
called that layout 'DMA Ver. 2'. Then the DMA got hacked. During the 4
month down time I re-made the layout to plain black background
cells with navy blue lining layout. That was Ver. 2.5. The
banner was also the same. Then I got the idea to make the
Digi-Dex. During
the beginning of the site I was going for the encyclopedia
approach and was copying Megchan's translations to make pages
for cards like she was. To this day some sites still follow this
method. I gave that up and started what I called the Digi-Dex.
The name Digi-Dex was first used by an anti-Pokemon site with
Digimon information. Obviously the term Digi-Dex comes from the
Pokedex used in the Pokemon universe. Later, the word Digi-Dex would appear on a
rival's site, Pojo. The DMA was the first site to take Megchan's
information and convert into what is considered a Digi-Dex
today.
The first version of the
Digi-Dex had MANY errors. Then I decided to
change the layout again. This time I used light brown, dark
bluish color, black and some navy blue. The banner was also
changed. That was Ver. 3. I thought it was great layout and I
moved to another server, Virtualave.net
During this time Season 3 was up to episode
14 in Japan and the Devas first appeared. I decided to start over on the
Digi-Dex. The layout of the Digi-Dex changed greatly. Instead of looking
like what Megchan had, it looked like what people come to expect in a
Digi-Dex today. The Digi-Dex list was huge. Way larger then Pojo's or any
other Digimon site created in America. This was all thanks to the DVR site,
aka the LCD site. I was the first American site to incorporate LCD images
into their site. By now, the DMA was slowly becoming popular. I also started
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- It was around episode 30 of Season 3 when I
discovered the exclusive MSN group made by Digi-Passer. Digi-Passer
made screens for Season 3 episodes. Back then we didn't have
2Chan or anything like that. Nor did we have access to
complete episodes back then. This group was very important to
me, because Claymore had stopped making pictures for his site.
The DMA's hits became very high because of my exclusive access
to these pictures. People were direct linking my site all over
the place on Megchan's MB. I was so happy, but of course that
ended soon. Digi-Passer kicked me and lots of other people off
his group because he found out I wasn't an Impmon fan. You see, you had to be an Impmon fan to part
of his group. Then I found out that someone on TDE's
message board still had access to his group and I continued
using Digi-Passer's pictures. That is, until Digi-Passer got
pissed at me and "deleted" his group. |
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DMA Ver. 4 and Then Death |
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- By that time Season 4 started airing. I
got my pictures from Omnitor Master (aka OMchan) and some from Claymore. I also completed the Digi-Dex. It had pages for
99.6 % of all Digimon. It was bigger than the LCD's, Pojo's and
Megchan's Digi-Dex. I then decided to change the layout to
Version 4. It used the SSI that I used in Ver. 3 and a
simple CSS. I also started a banner contest and got plenty of
great banners made for me. Everything was going great, that is
until my server deleted my account because of high bandwidth. I
was really depressed. You see when I was changing the layout I
first deleted the copies of the pages on my computer. The only
copies of the pages I had were on that server. So any pages that
didn't have the new layout were lost. I was lost until.... |
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Rebirth and Then
Death.....Again |
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- Raidix, webmaster of TDE, said he would host
me. During the two weeks I had before we went online I used all of
my free-time on the site, but I didn't have enough time to re-make
the 400 missing pages. The site opened back up to a very small
number of awaiting fans. That all changed though. After a few months I
had tons of people visiting the site. The DMA was getting more
hits than TDE.
Nothing lasts forever though.
Raidix's server couldn't take the massive traffic my site was
receiving. I was a sub domain on Raidix's server and it wasn't
right that the sub domain should take more bandwidth than
host. So the three sub domains were kicked off the server,
with no real warning. The DMA then would get yet another shot
and get hosted by one of the sites that was a sub domain on
TDE's server; The Digimon Network.
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Re-Rebirth and Then Boredom |
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- It was a half a year, but the DMA got a server again. During
the off time I made DMA ver. 4.5. It used complex cells and
table combinations, SSI, and CSS. The problem was the html was
bad and wouldn't show correctly online. The tables would extend
or retract whenever you changed the size of the window. So I
trashed that idea and made Ver. Final. As the name implies, it's
the last layout version I will ever make (Future Notes: lol, I
wish). Using the same complex
tables (fixed), but with new colors. Light blue, dark blue,
black, white, and grey-blue. The CSS and SSI got re-made as
well. The Index and Digi-Dex got the most changes. Now the
Digi-Dex could only be viewed correctly on screens with high
resolution. The news page featured, for the first time, graphics
made by me.
Again, as fate would have it, the
DMA died. Many reasons resulted in this. For one thing I was
losing interest in Digimon. Season 4 was a disappointment for me
and for Japan. There was no news of a fifth season. The time was
November 14th, 2003 and it was the day I actually got a life. To
me, the DMA was always an easy way out from life. On that day I
finally got a girlfriend, my first. I was 18 at the
time and I knew it was time to move away from Digimon.
But what to do with the DMA?
At this point more than half of the Digi-Dex had been completed.
I always had a lot of people helping me and I was a partner site
with the Digi-Port. I couldn't just leave things without a
goodbye. Before The Digimon Network failed me, I had given full
access to Digi-Dex to TK of the Digi-Port. He molded my Digi-Dex
into his own image, which is cool, but I still wanted my own my
mark left on the internet. I gave ALL of my site to one of my
last loyal fans and I left. He ended up not doing
anything with it.... |
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- Years later when I was looking for anime to download one day I noticed
there was a fifth season of Digimon. This came after three years
of an absence from the anime. Watching that episode did get me
to go through all my old favorite sites. I felt nostalgic and
wanted to give it another try, at least one last time. All of
the page I had made during the time I was waiting to be hosted
by The Digimon Network were never seen by the public. I now had
a chance to show the world the DMA's final performance, Version
Final. |
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I will fill this space when I have time. |
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