I can’t. I feel like that pervy teacher in a porn!

It’s been pretty quiet around here lately, and here’s the reason why…

After four good years, Twilight Lynk is coming to an end… however, this doesn’t mean I’m suddenly disappearing from the net, there are things brewing which I’d like to talk about.

Before we get into the future of Twilight Lynk, I’d like to talk a little about the past…

Where I’ve come from

I started out years ago with a fan site I started on GeoCities (remember that place?) called Rogue Squadron Central, a site focused around Star Wars: Rogue Squadron for the Nintendo 64 and PC and also delving into the X-Wing series of books by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston. It was the first time I really sunk my teeth into creating web sites and I still had so much to learn.

Next came my rising interest in an anime called Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 and by extension, the other series other under the Bubblegum Crisis banner. By this stage in time I graduated to using Microsoft FrontPage and was learning a bit more about HTML. By creating The Bubblegum Crisis Center, I had somehow tapped into a fanbase that was craving for a fan site dedicated to all aspects of Bubblegum Crisis and as such, I managed to meet quite a few people around the net, some of who I still interact with even to this day. BGCC had its own forum and I began to understand the importance of the community aspect of websites.

As my interest in anime grew beyond the various series of Bubblegum Crisis, so did my website. The Bubblegum Crisis Center became The Anime Crisis Center and the community I had started with BGCC grew to a new level to include fans of other anime. From my time with BGCC and TACC, my skills with HTML and CSS grew immensely and I experimented with different website designs over the years. Looking back at them is kind of embarrassing since they’re all pretty oldskool, it’s like people looking at pictures of themselves when they were back in the 80s with puffy hair, lol.

I stuck with The Anime Crisis Center for quite a while, but my obsession with anime slowly died down and my ultimate love for video games finally came through…

Where we are now

From my love of all things related to video games came Twilight Lynk. As I’ve said before, it’s been four years and over those four years I’ve posted up quite a lot of entries relating to all kinds of things. My idea for Twilight Lynk was to combine a blog and a forum and allow people to use the entire site with just a single account. To this day I still think the idea I had come up with was good, but I’ve come to realise that it’s an idea that belongs in a much older version of the Internet. I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun with Twilight Lynk and this place, like the other sites I had started and worked on over the years, have all been worth the effort.

However, Twilight Lynk is coming to an end now, so where do we go from here?

A new beginning

Over the years, my interests have changed, rather I should say, I have dedicated different sites over the years to different interests I’ve always had. Star Wars, Anime, Video Games… these are only some of the interests I have and I’ve enjoyed talking about everything that interests me.

Another thing I’ve noticed over the years is that it doesn’t really matter what your interests are, as long as you create rich content, people from far and wide will end up finding it, such is the way of the Internet.

With that in mind, I’ve decided to start a new website called… Lynk Former located at lynkformer.com.

lynkformer.com

My new site will focus on anything and everything I’m interested in. It won’t be limited to just video games or anime, it will be everything. The content won’t be short asshat posts you’d find on Facebook or twitter and it’s not going to be some kind of LiveJournal crap. None of that.

Just as I said before, if the content is rich, then people will eventually find it no matter where they’re from. In addition to that, I’ll be creating this new web site to be accessible across as many platforms as possible. The big three focuses are desktops, tablets and smartphones.

I have plans and lists and all that kind of jazz started, but I haven’t done anything I can show as of yet. However, I have bought the domain name and I will be aiming to start this web site officially before the end of the year.

In the meantime, Twilight Lynk will remain open in an archival form and the forum will remain open for posting. However, once I decide to start my new web site, I’ll be taking Twilight Lynk down.

Of course, I won’t be wasting all of these great entries that I’ve posted over the years, I’m going to try to repost as many of them as I can on lynkformer.com

Let’s see where the next four years of Lynk Former on the Internet takes me.