Your first Dragon Ball related site?

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by sangofe » Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:19 pm

Planet Namek, and I tried to have a site called "Last Saiyajin Refuge" together with another guy.

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by omegacwa » Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:19 pm

I can't remember the first DBZ site I visited, but in my younger days I frequented Planet Namek, Temple O Trunks, and Vegeta Insane.

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Makaioshin » Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:23 pm

I believe mine was either myfavoritegames or Temple O' Trunks.

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Envy » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:25 pm

There was this site called DragonballZ&GT or something like that. I don't know the last time I saw it must have been like 6 - 7 years ago. I doubt it's still around.

I don't remember it being anything special.

The funny thing is I didn't even know of this site's existence until last year. But I guess I can be forgiven because in between 2003 and last year my interest in Dragon Ball/Z wasn't really there. It seems like lately I've almost got back into it. I don't know why. There's just something special about it. lol

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:49 pm

Envy wrote:There was this site called DragonballZ&GT or something like that. I don't know the last time I saw it must have been like 6 - 7 years ago. I doubt it's still around.
Yea, I think it was DragonBallZGT.com

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Chibi Mystic Gohan » Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:15 pm

It was actually the official Dragon Ball Z CCG forums, in 2002 or so. That's where I met Darkprince410 back in the day. I remember posting on that forum during my computer classes in high school the entire time instead of doing work. :D That's probably where my forum addiction started...

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Castor Troy » Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:05 pm

Gaffer Tape wrote:Heh, I remember how easily I used to amuse myself back in 2000 with the official site, rapidly flashing my mouse over the icons of that flash-intensive site:

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by nathantheguitarist » Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:56 pm

I didn't get much into the online stuff back then. I went to dragonballz.com when I was at a computer for shits and grins. They used to have like, sound clips of the characters from the Ocean dub, didn't they?

I also had a friend get me tons of pictures printed out and I think most were from dragonballzgt.idk

I once found a site, and took like 2 hours to download a clip of Goku turning Super Saiyan 4, only for it to be short and incredibly disappointing lol.
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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Chuquita » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:02 am

Planet Namek, Ginga Giri Giri, and Cartoon Network's old Toonami website with dbz section.

Oddly enough, the first time I discovered Daizex was during the tail end of it's down time right before the site's relaunch. The page I was initially greeted with was a single page with an image of young Goku and a long note explaining about the site soon returning after being gone for a while.
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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by bkev » Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:19 am

The FUNimation Z page. "What's a matter, punk? Slow connection?"
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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Kid Buu » Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:36 am

bkev wrote:The FUNimation Z page. "What's a matter, punk? Slow connection?"
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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Great Saiyaman I » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:31 am

I did a google search on Dragonball fansites. The first one that came up was some real crappy site with broken links and false information. Then I found Daizex. So yeah...

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by BobZ » Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:21 am

The official Funimation website was the first Dragonball site I ever visited back in the days when I still only had dial-up.

The Z Flash Cards were so awesome at the time. :lol:

Anyways, later I found Dragon Ball Arena, which was my favourite DB related site - it had tons of info, pictures, clips and other media. Sadly, it hasn't been updated for over 2 years now. ;(

I remember the days when I used to visit dbz-media.nl for 30MB rmvb encodes of episodes. One episode used to get downloaded for about an hour. Back in the day, this was the only way I could watch DBZ, because Cartoon Network had stopped airing it in my country and I wasn't able to afford VHS or DVD releases, plus there was no way for me to import them.
Luckily, I now have a credit card, a monthly pay and the availability of the Dragon Boxes. ^^

There was also a site dragonball-gt.com which had tons of anime clips and picture galleries. Thanks to it I was able to see the show in its full gory in Japanese for the first time ever. And also spoil some of the greatest moments in Dragon Ball history for myself, such as Goku's first SSJ3 transformation. :P

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Velasa » Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:24 pm

PlanetNamek.com. The king is dead. LONG LIVE THE KING!

Other than that, DBZUncensored, The Neglected Nameksei-jin Shrine (the first place that published me!) and TNU were the core of my online Dragonball world back in the day.... Only one of these sites is left :( It breaks your heart to realize that.
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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Suupaa Gohan 2 » Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:08 pm

The first site I remember memorizing the URL to (back in the old days when I didn't know bookmarks existed) was one of those crappy, often ill-informed fansites called The Dragonball Z Kingdom...I even remember I was never sure how to spell Sai-Yan for a long time XD

But in a larger sense...planetnamek.com. To this day, I still miss that site. For years, it was my home. :x
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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Daimo-Rukiri » Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:34 pm

Daizex
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DBZ.4players.com I think it's still active

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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by jjgp1112 » Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:59 pm

Some site that I can't remember the name of. It had a MASSIVE picture gallery, and it had a picture of Trunks in the banner
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Re: Your first Dragon Ball related site?

Post by Raithos » Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:57 pm

I believe it was toonami on cartoonettwork.com or something, it had a bunch of dbz flash games and trivia and character bios, I thought it was pretty coolio
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