Twenty years is a milestone for any internet community. Think about everything that's come and gone in the past twenty years. And think about all the tech startups that MFGG has outlived!
Remarkably, Fan Made Games HQ, the original host for MFGG, is still online, although the site hasn't been updated in nearly a decade. It's still lingering, like the exoskeleton husk that MFGG emerged from so many years ago. http://fanmade.emulationzone.org/
I didn't join MFGG until 2003, and it's surreal to think that when I first started, there were already dozens or perhaps hundreds of "oldbies." With two decades of distance, I'm clearly folded into that same category of old-timers, even though I was never part of the EZBread forums and I missed the Great Kyle Flamewar and everything else. The passage of time seems to compress those distances, so what once seemed like an eternity in the MFGG community is now just part of the long prologue to whatever form MFGG has taken today.
When I first started to back out of the MFGG community in 2007-2008, I was nervous that I would never truly be able to leave, that I would always have my association with the community looming over me. What's even more remarkable is that not only is MFGG still around, but that it's evolved and changed so much in the intervening decade that I'm no longer essential to the story. I don't recognize most of the names here now — and I'm sure the Discord is even more alien to me — and that seems like a healthy place for things to be.
The web goes hand-in-hand with ephemerality, websites slowly blinking out over time and links decaying as communities move on, technologies change, and the old houses fall apart from disuse. Even if the community isn't nearly as active as it was during the Klik heyday, the fact that MFGG is still here after twenty years is an incredible show of resiliency. That's not something that happens by accident.
At the very least, the fact that MFGG made it this far without being cease-and-desisted into oblivion is nothing short of a miracle. Congratulations!
Remarkably, Fan Made Games HQ, the original host for MFGG, is still online, although the site hasn't been updated in nearly a decade. It's still lingering, like the exoskeleton husk that MFGG emerged from so many years ago. http://fanmade.emulationzone.org/
I didn't join MFGG until 2003, and it's surreal to think that when I first started, there were already dozens or perhaps hundreds of "oldbies." With two decades of distance, I'm clearly folded into that same category of old-timers, even though I was never part of the EZBread forums and I missed the Great Kyle Flamewar and everything else. The passage of time seems to compress those distances, so what once seemed like an eternity in the MFGG community is now just part of the long prologue to whatever form MFGG has taken today.
When I first started to back out of the MFGG community in 2007-2008, I was nervous that I would never truly be able to leave, that I would always have my association with the community looming over me. What's even more remarkable is that not only is MFGG still around, but that it's evolved and changed so much in the intervening decade that I'm no longer essential to the story. I don't recognize most of the names here now — and I'm sure the Discord is even more alien to me — and that seems like a healthy place for things to be.
The web goes hand-in-hand with ephemerality, websites slowly blinking out over time and links decaying as communities move on, technologies change, and the old houses fall apart from disuse. Even if the community isn't nearly as active as it was during the Klik heyday, the fact that MFGG is still here after twenty years is an incredible show of resiliency. That's not something that happens by accident.
At the very least, the fact that MFGG made it this far without being cease-and-desisted into oblivion is nothing short of a miracle. Congratulations!
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