thank you
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I'm so glad someone set up with thread, because it was so long overdue for us to give the fabulous webmaster here the thanks he deserves for keeping this fantastic site going (eek, long sentence). It's not just having set it up and such, but being so meticulous in updating and improving it. People who come here know that it's authoritative and that they can rely on the news and information on its pages.
I suppose every television programme of days gone by that wants to return to our screens needs several things. Among them, however, must surely be two things: a comprehensive source of information detailing what it's all about, and a community dedicated to getting it back. This site is the absolute epitome of the former, and provides an ideal basis and home for the latter (where else would we go, peeps?). Every single person who has a television nostalgia attack can search and find this place and relive the memories. And in more than a few cases, they'll stay around, and lend their voice to the campaign to bring an excellent programme back for everyone to enjoy.
An excellent programme needs at least one excellent website dedicated to it. Grats to Nic again for giving us just that.
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And yet it all seemed so simple.
What few people seme to realise is that before knightmare.clara.net (future .com) came along, there were two Knightmare websites - one run by an American kid named Johnny, and one run by a bloke at some uni named Hetein.
Hetein's one didn't work, well it did but he never bothered to update any of his pages, so none of the links worked. Johnny's was not that good, but it was the only Knightmare website on the web. And that was some sort of achievement, anyway.
Enter Paul McIntosh.
He finds Johnny somewhere, who tells him that his (Johnny's) site is 'the only Knightmare web site in the world!'. Paul prints this fact in Issue 9 of The Eye Shield.
Enter Pooka.
Paul points me to Johnny's page, and I contact Johnny. There was a brief glimmering of a friendship - and then Johnny decides that he isn't interested in Knightmare (or he's just a cold-heared git, either way) and vanishes without trace.
Enter Alan Boyd.
Pooka finds Alan Boyd via a web page, and they discuss Knightmare for a while until... UNTIL!...
All hell breaks loose... Enter Nicholas.
And there, suddenly out of nowhere, stands another, better, blacker, raring-to-go Knightmare website. Paul, Pooka and Alan stand aghast. Who is this 'Nicholas'? What is this 'website'? What are its 'contents'?
All hell continues to break loose.
Paul, Pooka and Alan bombard Nicholas with suggestions and ideas for the website. Johnny turns up occasionally and points out spelling mistakes. The seeds of Knightmare.com are being sewn.
Nobody knows exactly how the long and hard hours Nicholas spent in his underground lair slaving away at this 'website' of his warped his fragile mind, but he kept at it, stolid little webmaster as he is, and over time the Knightmare project began to evolve.
Little by little, things began to shape. Paul and eventually Alan faded gradually out of the picture (although my sources tell me they are still alive - somewhere...), an influx of 'outside' readers began to flood in (not mentioning any names like Neil, Alex, Rachel and verious Adams!), an evil man named Forester seized control of a certain chat room and invited people to play in it, and momentous explosions of things like THE EYE SHIELD SECTION!, THE NEW BBK CAMPAIGN!, and even THE KNIGHTMARE RPG! made people quake in their boots, even the infamously unflappable Pooka was severely rattled.
Yet still Nicholas kept working like a thing that works a hell of a lot, and now look where we are. Knightmare.com has a supplement in the form of NKTP, and in itself it is a complete website with a populated chat room, overflowing mailing list and thriving community, we've even brought a couple together... oh yes, and we've got Knightmare back.
For all the people at the start of this whole sordid affair, it is Nicholas we have to thank - for although he may be a mere Illusion, without him it is safe to say none of us would be here, and these discussions would not have taken place.
So I wasn't in chat for the first couple of years, particularly, but I was always watching what was happening, and one thing that has always amazed me is the stalwart work of Nicholas... crawls
I didn't see how much he worked on the website, and for this fact, that is why it all seemed so simple to begin with, but then again, while I look back, this is probably becase memory has a way of knocking off the corners.
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I forgot to post it before, but it sure is nice to have a full history of the community for people to peruse. Many thanks for spending the time writing that, Pooka.
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I only wish I could have been there slightly longer way back then, but of course when your PC sets on fire while looking at the KM forums, it is not very avoidable.
Then I was out for a good year and a bit, and when I was back on the net I was AMAZED to see how much the community had grown, and saddened that many have disappeared from the start of things.
Oh well, the place the thriving now, which again surprised me when I came back from Uni, after a bit of a drought in the summer.
But the site is certainly not only the best source for KM, but certainly the best overall site I visit.
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Well... it has a ton of information, shown in the best possible ways, an active and pretty mch thriving (if somewhat sporadic) community, a webmaster who actually does listen to his site's visitors... and most of all - the world badly needed this site before it came along...
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I've been here before.
I found the clara.net site a couple of years ago, and was quite happy with the fact that somebody other than me could REMEMBER this truly AWESOME (And let's make no joke - it was, and still IS, Awesome) show.
Now, it's coming back, and we're all drooling over when the new phase of the dungeon is open to us mere mortals again. My mouth is filling with skull-dust at the mere thought, heh heh.
I propose that EVERYONE at the boards signs up for the Application to play - then at least we may have a team who've seen it and lived it, and are willing to go on and show the world how the greatest show's fans can...make complete arses of themselves on TV. ;D
GO Knightmare.com!!!!
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It's amazing to think that I've been here, albeit brief periods of being on line, since Summer 2000. I stumbled onto www.knightmare.clara.net from another site called 'Watched It!' and was amazed- I had totally forgot about this show for 5 years. Back then, the Knightmare logo was much bigger than it was now, the Series 8 section wasn't online, and my writing was blooming awful. (I'm sure some of you might remember that)
Looking back on the old archived updates it's rather surprising, it feels like only a year ago since Season 3 of the RPG started! Since I arrived, the site has grown and grown and grown into the spectacle it is today.
Well done, Illusion!
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You're all heroes. Truly, we're the Titans Of Our Time.
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