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==History== | ==History== | ||
Formerly, the website hosted subpages including a media section (at one point known as the A/V Section), an information section (with subsections such as [[Super-Chrono|The Super-Chrono]], [[Recording History|recording history]] and equipment history), and a forum (at one point known as the bboard). These have since been removed following a major redesign in [[2015]]{{citation needed}}. | |||
===The 1990s=== | ===The 1990s=== | ||
{{main|weezer.net}} | {{main|weezer.net}} | ||
During the '90s, weezer.com either did not exist or was a fan-owned domain, most information on this iteration of the website is scarce{{citation needed}}. | |||
The site that would eventually become weezer.com started as [[weezer.net]], founded in late [[1994]] by [[Anuj Behal]], [[Dan Gdowski]], and Steve Carman, and assisted by a few others at times. Anuj Behal ran a server out of his dorm room at college in Chicago, which enabled weezer.net to host the earliest video clips of weezer on the web, such as the band's 1994 and [[1995]] TV appearances. At this time weezer.net was known as "the Rebel Weezer Alliance (RWA)" | The site that would eventually become weezer.com started as [[weezer.net]], founded in late [[1994]] by [[Anuj Behal]], [[Dan Gdowski]], and Steve Carman, and assisted by a few others at times. Anuj Behal ran a server out of his dorm room at college in Chicago, which enabled weezer.net to host the earliest video clips of weezer on the web, such as the band's 1994 and [[1995]] TV appearances. At this time weezer.net was known as "the Rebel Weezer Alliance (RWA)" | ||
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===The 2000s=== | ===The 2000s=== | ||
'Karl's Corner' joined weezer.net in spring [[2000]], doing near continuous updates for the remainder of 2000, documenting the daily efforts to prepare material (and overcome corporate resistance) for the band's [[Weezer (The Green Album)|planned 3rd album]]. | |||
At this time, the weezer.net crew looked into the status of weezer.com, and learned that a random fan had acquired it several years prior and was sitting on the domain, doing nothing with it. After some delicate negotiation (and some pressure from Geffen Records), the stage was set for Weezer to formally acquire the domain in January of [[2001]].<ref>''weezer.com'' (Jan, 2001). "Buh-Bye." [https://web.archive.org/web/20010105185100/http://weezer.com:80/index.html Archived].</ref> | At this time, the weezer.net crew looked into the status of weezer.com, and learned that a random fan had acquired it several years prior and was sitting on the domain, doing nothing with it. After some delicate negotiation (and some pressure from Geffen Records), the stage was set for Weezer to formally acquire the domain in January of [[2001]].<ref>''weezer.com'' (Jan, 2001). "Buh-Bye." [https://web.archive.org/web/20010105185100/http://weezer.com:80/index.html Archived].</ref> | ||
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===The 2010s=== | ===The 2010s=== | ||
By the mid 2010s, social media had | By the mid 2010s, social media had become more prominent, and 'Karls Corner' updates were now only seen on weezer's Facebook and Instagram pages (and later various other apps including TikTok), rendering "Karls Corner" a hashtag to be applied wherever appropriate. Since [[Crush Music]] become Weezer's label, weezer.com has evolved into a more "standard" band website with typical content like tour dates and major announcements. Historical content was migrated to weezerpedia.com. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||