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The History of the Rich Facts 4/10/02

 

Well, as usual, I am not like other Filter fan pages. There's a history to this page that I believe(correct me if I'm wrong) is unique to the Rich Facts themselves. How do I know? Well, let me tell you: The History of the Rich Facts.

The Rich Facts were born in early July 2001 on the X-Files MB( http://forums.prospero.com/foxxfiles/start) other wise known as the OS among X-File fans. I started a story that is known collectively as fan fiction. It was set after Season Eight's closing. I read in an Old Rich Words shortly after I started writing the story that Rich wanted to guest on the show. He had been visiting his brother in L.A. for Thanksgiving and was very excited to have been at the set to see Mulder's Porn collection, Scully's corner and Mulder's Desk, among other things. For those of you unfamiliar with the X-Files, Mulder does have a porn collection. Sometimes it is actually a point to pick on Fox Mulder.

The story I started had a character based upon Rich. I introduced him to the X-File community under the name of Sam Doggett (taking his real life brother Robert's character and making him the younger brother to John Doggett). Eventually, as popularity increased for Sam Doggett, I thought I'd introduce them to the man behind him. Thus, the Rich Facts were born. They were simple, short sentences telling the readers the truth behind the character. I told them snipets of things I found out through research such as who he was, what he does and how he related to Robert and such. As the story continued, the Rich Facts grew more and more popular for the information and humorous things in the Facts themseleves as well as the intros into them and the Sponsors after them. For awhile, I wondered if the story was going to take a second spot to the damn Sponsors.

(For readers currently reading the sequel and started reading it in the form you know it now, I went through in one August day deleting the entire original thread due to a fellow named Anit Drugs. He thought it was funny to steal stories and stole a different one of mine. I wasn't going to risk the Facts or the story with it, so that's why you don't see the Facts there with them.) 

When I decided to archive the story in the largest archive for X-File fan fiction (Gossamer Project. It's not archived yet.), I was going to simply tack the Facts onto the end of the story in the .txt format with the rest of the story. Then I thought about how I could make it more interesting. So, thus the Rich Facts as a site was born. I never imagined getting attention in the Filter community for it, figuring most of my attention would come from readers of the fan fiction I wrote. Then I started getting attention from the Filter community. From there, well the Rich Facts changed looks a few times. (including this one)

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The first look was simple and cheesy, to tell you the truth. Too girly is what I call it. Forgive me a little. It was my first actual website that worked. Serious. I've tried for years to make ANY page about ANYTHING. It's harder than it looks or I'm just dumber than a box of rocks. (and if I catch any of you saying the latter....you're probably right). Anyways, I was estactic that even the most girly, cheesy look worked. (see below. Point and laugh all you want, but if I cry I'll blame you personally.) HEY, at least it looks cool NOW. And if you bitch..never mind..I'm getting a head of myself.

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Most of you are most familiar with the look I just changed. Hey, it was PRE Custombile Designs. Give me a break here. It was the best they had to offer at the time. Those of you who saw the layout of the Facts according to era and time heard me bitch about Tripod's lack of loading. (See the Fun and Torture of Making a Website in the Archive for more) Don't blame me if the page was lame. Like I said, it was in the dark ages or there is that factor that I'm still retarded again and couldn't understand how to make cooler backgrounds. I'm a writer by nature, not a tech head. Sheesh. Everyone's a critic.

I admit, it was cooler than the girly version. Sheesh. Man was that girly. Anyways, it seemed to suit the site better for the time being. One of my XF friends pointed out to me as she started to make her own fan fic archive that you could customize the design. Alleuia. About damn time. Some of us are stupid about these things without handy dandy help with customized designs mapped out for us. And as for that rant in the archive, Tripod is remarkably faster on that whole loading bit. YAY. If i wasn't, I'd say fuck it and leave the page the way it was, no matter how cool it'd look in the end. Trust me. You'd have to put up with the Bee Hive design and be happy with it. Speaking of which, take a peek at the former look and sigh with the fondness of memories or don't and go make yer own damn page.

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Now for the new version. Thought I'd ignore that, did you? Well you're WRONG. I figured out that handy dandy customizing thingy here, and now it's 1000x's cooler than ever before and if it's not you can go to Hell. I tried, didn't I? You lazy asses who read this and don't have your own page and what not shouldnt' say anything about the cool level of this page. Ummm, I didn't say that. That was the Evil Rich Fact Webmistress. I'll get her for that comment. So, what do ya think? Is it not cool??

As for the direction of the Rich Facts in the future..well, that depends on Filter. I mean, the page will come down if Rich decides to become the next RuPaul or decides he wants to be the next Nsuck. Then I'll have no choice but to sneak down to his studio and attempt to talk him out of it or simply put him out of his misery. You'll thank me. Trust me. It would be pretty dire if Rich got that bad. Anyways...we know that won't happen, right? It had better not. I don't wanna do that. I really don't want to do that. Besides, I don't think Rich wants to do that either. M'eh, unless he does read my Consider This and thinks I should meet him. Ah I can dream, can't I? Never mind. We won't go there. It'd be bad.