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Blue Period launched around 2002, as a subpage of the personal website of UK-based LiveJournal user serpentbearer, aka Becky<ref>{{Cite web|date=Dec 28, 2002|title=bio|url=http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/bio.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040622015545/http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/bio.html|archive-date=Jun 22, 2004|website=Blue Period}}</ref>. Blue Period would become popular in the community and linked often on EGL for its full scans of volumes of the [[Gothic & Lolita Bible]] and other resources for lolitas outside of Japan. Becky would modify the website in November 2003 to replace most personal content and theme the website exclusively around lolita fashion<ref>{{Cite web|date=Nov 17, 2003|title=Home|url=http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708075222/http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|archive-date=July 8, 2004|website=Blue Period}}</ref>. | Blue Period launched around 2002, as a subpage of the personal website of UK-based LiveJournal user serpentbearer, aka Becky<ref>{{Cite web|date=Dec 28, 2002|title=bio|url=http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/bio.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040622015545/http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/bio.html|archive-date=Jun 22, 2004|website=Blue Period}}</ref>. Blue Period would become popular in the community and linked often on [[EGL Livejournal|EGL]] for its full scans of volumes of the [[Gothic & Lolita Bible]] and other resources for lolitas outside of Japan. Becky would modify the website in November 2003 to replace most personal content and theme the website exclusively around lolita fashion<ref>{{Cite web|date=Nov 17, 2003|title=Home|url=http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708075222/http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|archive-date=July 8, 2004|website=Blue Period}}</ref>. | ||
Blue Period's accompanying forum, hosted via SuddenLaunch, was launched August 17, 2003 as "a message board for goth and Gothic Lolita fashion" and would accrue over 9000 individual users and nearly 44,000 posts at its peak.<ref>{{Cite web|date=Nov 17, 2003|title=Home|url=http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708075222/http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|archive-date=Jul 8, 2004|website=Blue Period}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=http://blueperiod.suddenlaunch.com/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325203124/http://blueperiod.suddenlaunch.com/|archive-date=Mar 25, 2010|website=Blue Period Gothic Lolita Forums}}</ref> | Blue Period's accompanying forum, hosted via SuddenLaunch, was launched August 17, 2003 as "a message board for goth and Gothic Lolita fashion" and would accrue over 9000 individual users and nearly 44,000 posts at its peak.<ref>{{Cite web|date=Nov 17, 2003|title=Home|url=http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708075222/http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/home.html|archive-date=Jul 8, 2004|website=Blue Period}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=http://blueperiod.suddenlaunch.com/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325203124/http://blueperiod.suddenlaunch.com/|archive-date=Mar 25, 2010|website=Blue Period Gothic Lolita Forums}}</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 16:46, 21 December 2022
 Screenshot of the Blue Period forum homepage on October 24, 2004 | |
| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 |
| Website | http://www.blue-period.fsnet.co.uk/egl.html |
| Current status | Down |
Blue Period was an English-language website and accompanying forum/message board for the lolita fashion community in the early 2000s.
History
Blue Period launched around 2002, as a subpage of the personal website of UK-based LiveJournal user serpentbearer, aka Becky[1]. Blue Period would become popular in the community and linked often on EGL for its full scans of volumes of the Gothic & Lolita Bible and other resources for lolitas outside of Japan. Becky would modify the website in November 2003 to replace most personal content and theme the website exclusively around lolita fashion[2].
Blue Period's accompanying forum, hosted via SuddenLaunch, was launched August 17, 2003 as "a message board for goth and Gothic Lolita fashion" and would accrue over 9000 individual users and nearly 44,000 posts at its peak.[3][4]
Footnotes
- ↑ "bio". Blue Period. Dec 28, 2002. Archived from the original on Jun 22, 2004.
- ↑ "Home". Blue Period. Nov 17, 2003. Archived from the original on July 8, 2004.
- ↑ "Home". Blue Period. Nov 17, 2003. Archived from the original on Jul 8, 2004.
- ↑ "Home". Blue Period Gothic Lolita Forums. Archived from the original on Mar 25, 2010.
External links
- Blue Period Gothic Lolita Forums – (dead link) Original URL of the site's accompanying message-board
