'90s/early 2000s Dragon Ball websites (with Wayback links, if possible)

[SylentEcho]

Hi, everyone

I was thinking about so many old Dragon Ball websites I used to visit daily back in the day, but seem to remember just a couple, aside from this one and Temple 'O Trunks of course.

Here's the two I remember:
DBZGT Legacy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010601081 ... egacy.com/

MyFavoriteGames:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031231222 ... games.com/

There used to be so many with AMVs, clips, screensavers and other cool stuff.
Does anybody remember any more? Post your favourites here.

[TechExpert2021]

The official FUNimation DBZ website comes to mind (the web capture is from 10/19/2000).

There’s also Chris Psaros's DBZ Uncensored website, which was popular among fans of the original Japanese version (and pre-dub fans) who want to know the drastic differences between the original Japanese version of DBZ and the 1996-2003 FUNimation dub (although he stopped at episode 92 (107 uncut)).

I might list more if I can.

[Magnificent Ponta]

For widely-known and influential sites of the time, a couple spring immediately to mind. One that I'm sure will resonate with a number of fans who were wandering the web in the early '00s is Planet Namek (capture from 2001).

Another that will have been hugely influential is Greg Werner's Ultimate DBZ Information Site (capture from 2000).

You should be able to get an idea of other websites that were relatively well-known at the time by checking out their respective "Links" pages.

I'll also chip in with a more personal one: The Unrivaled Dragonball Source, my old stomping ground - this capture is from 2003, which is the year I became a member and a little while before it got remodelled into the more generalised Anime/Manga/Multimedia site unrivaled.info in 2004.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Ah, I remember MyFavouriteGames. I wasn't aware of Kanzenshuu (or Daizenshuu as it was known at the time) so that seemed to be the most comprehensive Dragon Ball site back in the early to mid 2000s for me.

Old fansites that I wish I'd known about during their time are UKDB and Ocean-DB, largely because they were the places to go for appreciation of the Canadian dubs and nowhere else documented the Cartoon Network UK, CNX and Toonami broadcasts as closely.

VegettoEX's Ultimate DBZ Links was legendary, albeit maybe for questionable reasons, as the place to pirate download the best available MP3 files of various tracks from numerous Dragon Ball soundtrack CDs (both vocal and instrumental songs).

[VegettoEX]

VegettoEX's Ultimate DBZ Links was legendary, albeit maybe for questionable reasons, as the place to pirate download the best available MP3 files of various tracks from numerous Dragon Ball soundtrack CDs (both vocal and instrumental songs).

This is not quite true. My links page only existed for about a month in January 1998 before turning into "VegettoEX's Home Page" (and "Daizenshuu EX" after that), and even when I hosted MP3 files, they were all intentionally encoded at very low bitrates (albeit of course under the faux guise of "promotion")... but still, hardly the "best available" files (others had far "better" files than me).

Anyway, it's criminal to have this kind of thread without acknowledging the work of folks like Wuken and Daimao and Curtis (which soon after formed the short-lived toriyama.org, a dream and legacy I chase to this day).

[Xeogran]

Can we post MUGEN centric DBZ websites? Because these were absolutely awesome, and I recently re-found the link to this one called Bardock's Revenge and thankfully someone saved it in the Wayback Machine!

Here's also Ultimate DBZ (but a different one from the posted above )

Of course, there was also many great old-school DBZ websites in other languages, like ZSoldiers.net

[Koitsukai]

Boy, this is like a time machine!
Incredibly awful web designs, of course back then they all looked beautiful. I've spent hours on sites like these, no wonder I was having migrains. There was a great Digimon website back then I was never able to find again, it was the only good-looking website: dash/digimon or something like that.

The names of the characters... Maujin Buu (where did that U came from?) Ultimate Buu, Furiza (spot on), UItra Perfect Cell... and everybody, even Olibu and Spopovitch being stronger than Freeza. Simpler times, man.

[TechExpert2021]

The names of the characters... Maujin Buu (where did that U came from?) Ultimate Buu, Furiza (spot on), UItra Perfect Cell... and everybody, even Olibu and Spopovitch being stronger than Freeza. Simpler times, man.

And let's not forget the names "Son Gokou" and "Taurus".

[Ronin]

I'll also chip in with a more personal one: The Unrivaled Dragonball Source, my old stomping ground - this capture is from 2003, which is the year I became a member and a little while before it got remodelled into the more generalised Anime/Manga/Multimedia site unrivaled.info in 2004.

I was just thinking about Unrivaled today and found this thread from Googling it out of curiosity. I went there a lot for a few years as well starting in 2004. I remember that it was the first online community that I signed up for. I even made my first email address to sign up for it. What was your username there? I'm curious to see if I'd recognize it.