A rare find for me...the original TRT design

The Core RPGC Main Forum
1

Okay, I bet half of you don’t give a rat ass about TRT…but for me, this is a subsite I been working on for six years. Yeah, TRT is a lot older then you think, as it originated from Homestead, went to Geocities, then Spaceport, to Kiwibonga’s Server, and finally to RPGClassics where it remains today.

Anyway, I only previously had the backup of the Kiwibonga/Spaceport layout, which the background was dark blue with green thrown in (need to find the cd with those backups), but never the original design from Homestead. I checked Internet Archives two years ago, where I obtained a number of number of old files from Homestead (my site was long deleted when Homestead started to charge money for their sites) along with a few pages of dialog (but only the text) from the main page.

But after viewing Tenchimaru Draconis’ long lost website, I was inspired to recreate the original design of TRT using the backup files I got, which include my original heading image and the background. Using the text, I not only recreated the main page in it original glory, but even obtained the old font and color I used.

Anyway, here is my original site in a jpg file below. I couldn’t recreate it in html, since Homestead was a “upload the image and then drag it to the location” site builder, so I used Photoshop to arrange everything as it would been originally.

http://www.rpgclassics.com/subsites/twistedrpg/images/misc/recreatedtrt.jpg

[edit] And yes, the dialog sucks, but I couldn’t bare to rewrite it.

2

that old layout was pretty decent.

3

Pretty cool Rirse.
They say things fade with age, but this as only gotten better over the years.

4

This thread isn’t taking off the ground, so I am asking a question to you viewer…do you still have your original website online? If TD still has his old one, so should you.

5

Yes.

6

Um…when I ask if you still have your original site, I would like to see what it looks like. :smiley: throws Ramza down the Sarlac Pit

7

It looks kind of… web-siteish… A few links…

8

My first website was a cheap gimmik for summer money through advertizing. If www.insex.net is still taken as a domain, it’s still up, if not, it’s gone.
I’d rather not go back. There’re only so many times you can watch a bee pollenate a flower with porno music going in the background before it stops being funny, no-matter how much money it made you.
Although the sad fact that a website that advertized as hardcore porn and bestiality, but was really just poorly-shot videos of insects walking around or baby insects actually got a good number of hits was worth it.