TV Tropes
You might remember it as TVTropes, tropes wiki
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2004·Early web, before YouTube
A wiki that named the patterns in everything, and ate an evening of your life doing it.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- TVTropes
- Spread in
- 2004
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
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.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.