Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151012162920/@comment-53539-20151029175848

I think they were ownned by Micorsoft anyway. Anyway. The microsoft websites were a thing in the early 2000s that were basically gone by the mid 2000s... I think they still eistbut I haven't come across them in so long... They were actually like a tumblr account. they were kinda like a social networking site on the level of MySpace...

As well as create basic (and crap looking) web pages, you could have a gallery.

The beyblade fandom, which I was part of then, was FULL of these websites set up. When I joined the One Piece fandom in 2003, they had become places to store things like scanalations it seems. The whole thing was a run away problem. I made a logo for the website "Fierce Dranzer" and found about 12 of these crappy sites had "stolen" it to create a dummy "fierce Dranzer". This was back when I actually was learning HTML and was able to do it... When I became a wiki editor I basically forgot how to html... ^_^'

IT was, even then, a slap to the face that these websites stole content from other fansites. Its a lot easier to surf the web these days then it was in the late 90s/early 2000s and you don't see such crappy services like this was.

Photobucket and other like services also replaced a lot of these kind of websites, they looked more professional and were overall easier to use. Plus you could insert images into pages vica a link directly to the iage, which was not really possible with these.

Either way, it was annying that you have 8 pages on a google search of these crappy websites turning up whenever you looked up "beyblade". Insult Tumblr all you want, but I've seen worst in the past from the web. ¬_¬