Historical Eras of CivFanatics

[Blake00]

Thought you guys (in particular the long time members here) might enjoy this...

I'm the middle of a big Civ series scenario hunt and at the moment I'm finishing my Civ 2 scenario preservation work digging up heaps of long lost Civ2 websites on webarchive and rescuing what I can.

While doing these searches I've come across different eras of CivFanatics history which is quite fun to compare to the huge modern day site we have now! Funny to think that much like my website it all started with Thunderfall making a little Geocities page in the late 90s haha.

If anyone wants to take a trip down memory lane then here they are.. the eras of CivFanatics

Webarchive backup of CivFanatics - Geocities Era (Late 90s)
Webarchive backup of CivFanatics - Xoom Era (Early 2000s - sadly very incomplete)
Webarchive backup of CivFanatics - Strategy Gaming Era (Mid 2000s)
Webarchive backup of CivFanatics - Atomic Gamer Era (Early 2010s)

CivFanatics - Geocities Era (Late 90s)

CivFanatics - Xoom Era (Early 2000s - sadly very incomplete)

CivFanatics - Strategy Gaming Era (Mid 2000s)

CivFanatics - Atomic Gamer Era (Early 2010s)

 

[Birdjaguar]

Great fun to remember. Thanks.

 

[Catharsis]

Geocities era is before my time but I did at least know about it. The 'Xoom' site is completely new to me. TF please bring back the 'COOL MIDI' link, the site is incomplete without COOL MIDI.

 

[Lohrenswald]

CivFinatics - Strategy Gaming Era (Mid 2000s)

hadn't found the forum at that time, but that's a look I guess I feel nostalgic about

 

[Broken_Erika]

I always use the classic theme, 'cause it reminds me of the mid-2000's look.

 

[Gorbles]

Oh, no, HTML tables!

 

[Thunderfall]

That's some good detective work, Blake! Brings back fond memories...

Geocities era is before my time but I did at least know about it. The 'Xoom' site is completely new to me. TF please bring back the 'COOL MIDI' link, the site is incomplete without COOL MIDI.

I was pretty into FF7 at that time... That Cosmo Canyon theme was one of my favs.

 

[Blake00]

That's some good detective work, Blake! Brings back fond memories...
I was pretty into FF7 at that time... That Cosmo Canyon theme was one of my favs.

Thanks mate, I noticed you had a Heroes of Might & Magic 3 section on the Geocities too. Good taste!!!

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[Blake00]

Cheers to The_J for posting about this thread on the main news page.

I forgot to say here that if there's any oldschool Civilization 2 fans still lurking here then it might interest you to see that after making this 'History of CivFanatics' thread I've started making a similar 'History of the Civilization 2 Scenario League' thread over in the CFC SL forums as much like CFC the SL went through many coats of paint and different hosts over the decades but still lives on today!
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/history-of-the-scenario-league-their-backups.670870/

SL over 20 years ago:

 

[Leowind]

Was the Strategy Gaming Era really mid-2000s? That's the look I remember, but I thought I started playing way before 2000. In any case, cool to trip down memory lane for this (recently returned) old-timer

 

[Quintillus]

Question for those of us who haven't been around very long - what was Xoom? And for that matter, maybe Strategy Gaming? Was that a host of CFC prior to TeleFragged? I remember the TeleFragged era, which IIRC went until around the mid-2010s.

Now I'm off to learn some Nonsense, as I would have been doing had I been on the site in the early 2000's...

 

[Blake00]

Was the Strategy Gaming Era really mid-2000s? That's the look I remember, but I thought I started playing way before 2000. In any case, cool to trip down memory lane for this (recently returned) old-timer

If you click on the links to the webarchives copies you can browse back through the months and years using their controls. From what I can see you're right and the Strategy Gaming Era did kick off in the early 2000s as the Xoom era didn't seem to last too long. But since the Strategy Gaming Era continued through most of the 2000s I 'evened it out' and said mid 2000s haha.

Was that a host of CFC prior to TeleFragged?

TeleFragged? Sounds like I missed an era! Although I marked/separated the eras in the post by either web address or visual changes so no doubt I missed a bunch of different 'in-between' hosts where the address stayed the same and the site looked the same but it was on a totally different host/server behind the scenes.

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[The_J]

Telefragged is the same as AtomicGamer, so no, nothing missed for at least that time point .

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

Gosh that's some interesting stuff. I wonder what else is out there to dig up once more.

 

[amadeus]

Question for those of us who haven't been around very long - what was Xoom?

Xoom was a free webhost that gave more MB than GeoCities or Tripod. Lots of totally legitimate gaming sites used in the day to store files.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Civ II scenarios... I actually flanged something up once upon a time. Pond World was a world where there was but one body of open water anywhere... and it was a pond. There were a few rivers scattered around. The terrain was nothing but grassland, everywhere.

And if your first settler popped into being near the Pond or a river, you would be okay. If you were far from water, you were apt to die as no irrigation could happen.

 

[Blake00]

Well since this has been bumped and Civ2 has come up I should probably mention for the older fans here that I've finished making the similar 'historical eras of the Civ 2 Scenario League site' thread too!
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/history-of-the-scenario-league-their-backups.670870/

 

[Hygro]

It’s funny though, when you say historical eras I think to convergences of debated topics, how people debated, what opinions where popular, and who the prominent posters were.

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

It’s funny though, when you say historical eras I think to convergences of debated topics, how people debated, what opinions where popular, and who the prominent posters were.

I wonder if there would be a way to compile such information.