Saturday, March 5, 2005

   How Time Passes
I spent some time today browsing the wonderful WayBackMachine, a service that keeps a constant archive of websites. I was reading through posts I made as far back as 1999 when I was the owner of AbsoluteGB.com (a Game Boy site) and then went through the evolution of theOtaku.com.

It really boggles my mind how long I've been doing this web stuff (and how long I've been working with many of the same fine people).

Over two years ago, I made the following post:

Otakuites!

What I'm going to type to you now is absolutely true. I wouldn't break your trust.

The other night, I had great difficulty sleeping. I was lying in bed, restless, and all of a sudden, a vision came to me.

I saw the perfect anime site floating in my mind. I saw how it worked down to the tiniest pixel. It was absolutely brilliant--beautiful and complete. It made me stare at my ceiling in awe. Before you think you know what I'm going to say...

This site in my head wasn't Version Next.

For a couple days, this simple fact depressed me greatly. That is, until I realized...wait a second...Version Next leads into this perfect site *beautifully*.

That's right, my vision of the *perfect* anime site is so advanced it requires Version Next as an in-between with what we have now and my ideal.

Make no mistake, Version Next will break every boundary of what I have ever created before and will give you some things you've never seen before. It will be one of my favorite days when I can announce it.

But remember: Before slime could evolve into humans, it had to first evolve into apes. (People who don't believe in evolution please disregard this.)

Just wanted to let you know ^_^

-Adam
"The Prince of Anime"

It's so amazing. The current iteration of theOtaku.com is what I had envisioned two years ago and what I needed "Version Next" to help accomplish. "Version Next" if you remember was when we introduced myOtaku.com and our Fan Art site.

Of course, even then, I could never have dreamed that we'd have such an amazing design (ala James), such great code (ala Justin), and such great features (ala Gail).
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