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2004·Early web, before YouTube

TV Tropes

A wiki that named the patterns in everything, and ate an evening of your life doing it.

You might remember it as TVTropes, tropes wiki

From the early web

The story

What this was

A collaboratively written catalogue of narrative devices with a vocabulary of its own. Known as much for its effect on the reader — the wiki walk that starts at one page and ends four hours later — as for its content.

It first appeared in 2004, during early web, before YouTube.

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Early web, before YouTube

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Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.

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Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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A collaboratively written catalogue of narrative devices with a vocabulary of its own. Known as much for its effect on the reader — the wiki walk that starts at one page and ends four hours later — as for its content.
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