when i was about twelve, i would spend an hour after school each day in one of the computer rooms with some of my friends. the main thing we would do was download the UT99 demo anew each afternoon on the T1 internet at the school, and play one another in network matches. one of the guys in that room, i recall, was developing a cardcaptors fansite called Clowbook, having seen some of our upperclassmen get on to america's CNN off the back of the success of their Harry Potter fansite. i don't think Clowbook ever amounted to much, but it did inspire me to create my own website at that time, which was a shrine to Tomoyo from the aforementioned Cardcaptors. I never really watched the show, and I only read the first few manga volumes, but i latched on to her character immediately. i bought a .co.uk domain for it (tomoyo-devotion.co.uk), but never figured out how to purchase, or use, hosting. as a result, it was a geocities website with a godaddy-purchased domain. every few years i'll remember that site and search it on the wayback machine. only the splash, with the image now gone, remains.

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