I love this website, it was one of my first and still stands

I wanted to reflect some on how amazing this site is. the title of this might sound confusing, but it seriously means what it says, literally.

I was around 12 years old, back in 1998, when I took some of my first forays onto this newfangled trendy "internet" thing all the nerds and rich people were talking about. It started appearing on computers in libraries and other places, I was amazed at the potentials of it. Connecting, live, with the rest of the world, looking up and accessing whatever information you were interested in instantly.

Going online at libraries some of the first things I searched for were-- big surprise, video game cheat codes, information on jellyfish and deep oceanic life, and on stupid things I had seen advertised on television that told you to visit their website in their commercials.

My grandmother got the internet around early 1999, I went online at her house, and had some of my first free unfettered experience not constrainted by library visiting time. I don't know what random curiosity or browsing led me to it but I was curious to know more about this animated film my grandfather had recorded onto a cassette tape, (of very poor recording quality) and looked up stuff about Secret of NIMH. At the time a search engine (I used Dogpile at the time, one of the most popular ones) there were various geocities/angelfire type webpage "fansites" made by average joes who liked secret of nimh.

One of the best sites I found, the most elaborate and well-designed one, was this one. i remember it well. 1999 and it looked almost exactly the same as it did today. All these years have gone by since then, the internet has changed unimaginably, it's not the same internet anymore, geocities is gone, along with all of its millions of personal webpages, the very idea of individually designed sites, hell, the very idea of the "world wide web" is gone, now the internet has all de-personalized and melded into 3 or 4 giant commercial superstore sites where absolutely everyone does everything they do online, no more whimsical text, colorful backgrounds, it's just a blank slate of white covered in flash ads.

Most of the other NIMH fan pages, along with most everything I remember about the internet from back then, is gone now, if not messily archived, then deleted forever. But this site, this site is still there, unchanged by time, like a monastery standing unphased by the chaotic online world outside.

I love to come back here, just to feel like it's still the past, the ancient internet, and that some part of it still lives on. It feels so wonderful.

Thank you Seoman for keeping this part of the glory days of the old internet alive. For me, it is powerfully nostalgic, almost like being able to go back in time to my childhood naivity about the glorious, bright future and all the possibilities the online world held.

Dogpile on the rabbit!!

Sorry, I was just reminded of a favorite line from a Bugs Bunny toon. lol

My own internet experience isn’t as long as yours, Grizz, but I do agree that it’s great to keep coming back to this site. Last year, Simon was discussing the possibility of letting it lapse; consider this another vote in favor of keeping it going, hopefully for a long long time.

Awr, thanks for the kind words. I've been bothered by the fact that I haven't done much to update the site in a while, so I'm glad it can at least provide nostalgia. Though the server's getting long enough in the tooth that I will need to update things at some point, though I'll try to keep things familiar. Besides, I hate facebook too. :3

I just told Simon the same thing :) This was one of the first NIMH sites I ever visited back in 98 and certainly one of the best! There's so much here, some of everything it seems, and over the years I've always found myself coming back. Other sites have gradually disappeared but I'm so glad there's still one for fans to congregate at. I hope it stays up (even if it becomes outdated) for a long time!

I could not agree more with GrizzlyCoon's enthusiastic support of this website. I too am a great fan and have contributed to this site from time to time. I'll admit that due to time constraints, my visits to this site have become less frequent, but just the same, I do like to come back here even if it's just to check up on things in the NIMH community. I do believe that if this site were to go, the void created in it's wake would be unfathomable in its scope.

Peace :D
NIMHmaniac

Is this and Nimhster's page the only 2 active NIMH sites left or is there any more..

Is this and Nimhster's page the only 2 active NIMH sites left or is there any more..

We might be the only two that are still active, but there are still NIMH sites that are up and haven't received an update for almost a decade. The Secret of NIMH Archive[=http://www.vanden-eykel.com/nimharchive/]The Secret of NIMH Archive hasn't had an update since June 25, 2003 (even though the front page says otherwise). Another old site is Eric's The Secret of NIMH Compendium[=http://members.tripod.com/~Secret_of_NIMH/index.html/index.htm]Eric's The Secret of NIMH Compendium which hasn't seen a single site revision since May 2, 1999. Most of the creators may have forgotten about their sites, became caught in schooling and work or simply lost interest in updating their website. It's sad, but at least a portion of old NIMH sites are still online.

Don't forget that Mark Sayer's Desert Mouse Hole site is still up.

http//www.freewebs.com/desmouse/

I especially haven't forgotten about Mark's NIMH site. He may not have updated it much, but I still browse it at least once every month.