some random girl named Tara Hartwick who was basically posting saying, hey, my friends and I thought of a really cool idea.

We're a group of roommates, and we're going to put our lives online.

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why I'm mine.

In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture.

Well, today's not exactly our podcast about internet culture, is it?

It's not, but it's still an incredible show, and it is still about internet culture,

and we're very excited to share with you.

Think of it as a little Christmas gift we picked out special for U.I.C. Why My Guys.

In case you missed it.

Slade's got this incredible show called One Year.

It's a podcast that focuses on telling stories from one year in our recent past that

we may have missed or completely forgotten. Their current season is exploring the year 1995,

which was a time when the internet was still in its infancy, if not basically a fetus.

Episodes have covered things like the Oklahoma City bombing, a fertility clinic scandal,

and the story we've got for you today is about what I think is best described as the first

internet soap opera.

I think that's a really good description.

This story is weird and wild

and about a small group of creators who, through what amounted to mostly just a series of

interconnected blog posts, inspired one of the earliest instances of an online fandom. It's a story

about online creativity. I'm going to say it. It's a story about parisocial relationships.

And it's a story about how not everything on the internet lasts forever. It's basically the kind of story I see why am I would

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