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The site in the past also featured many subpages that have since been removed since the last major redesign in [[2015]]{{citation needed}}. These former pages include a media section (at one point known as the A/V Section), an info section (with subsections such as [[Super-Chrono|The Super-Chrono]], [[Recording History|recording history]] and equipment history, much of which has been archived on Weezerpedia), and a forum (at one point known as the bboard).

===The '90s===

While Weezer was being formed, the World Wide Web was still more of a concept than an actual thing. Screen grabs of the site from this decade are difficult to come by, and the Internet Archive only has a collection of failed attempts to document the site in 1998 and 1999. During the '90s, weezer.com either didn't exist or was a fan-owned domain.  

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"

[[Karl Koch]] was not 'online' until 9/98, but soon thereafter discussed with Anuj and Dan running a online version of [[Karl's Corner]] on weezer.net, to do real time updates of the band's activities. At the time however (1999), the band was mostly inactive and Karl was busy running the [[weezer Fan Club]], which went to his responsibility after the deaths of Fan Club founders Mykel and Carli Allan in July 1997.

Finally, 'Karl's Corner' joined weezer.net in spring 2000, doing near continuious updates for the remainder of 2000, documenting the daily efforts to prepare material (and overcome corporate resistance) for the band's 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>  

Anuj and Dan (the only remaining original weezer.net partners by this point) agreed to transfer weezer.net's contents to weezer.com, while remaining as co-webmasters with Karl. In addition, weezer acquired the weezer.net domain, to redirect it to weezer.com. Over the course of 2001, Karl, Dan and Anuj redesigned and relaunched the site to coincide with the Green Album's release, including new or revamped pages for tour info, merchandise store, means of contact, and their mailing list.<ref>''weezer.com'' (Nov, 2001). "Welcome page"[https://web.archive.org/web/20011130172746/http://www.weezer.com/]</ref>

Also launched at the time of the Green album's release was a message boards section, the first official weezer bboard.

The site was relaunched again in 2005, and continued with various looks and functionality into the 2010's.

By the mid 2010's, social media had taken over 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. Weezer.com evolved into a more standard band website with typical content like tour dates and major announcements. Historical content was migrated to weezerpedia.com.