The Old School Otaku Lounge

On second thought, maybe this should go in Off-Topic, as he doesn't seem to be involved with anime anymore. (^_^;)

Supposedly he retired from anime fandom about 15 years ago (his interview in Otaku Unite! was at the last anime con he would ever go to.) If you're curious about what he's up to now, it seems like he's still running a fan page for a J-Pop band, and is on Twitter: http://dctjoy.com/dct/about-dctjoy/

Found his website: http://jameslick.com/ He played a big role in online anime fandom, at least. The Venice FTP server was on tcp.com. AnimeMUCK was on tcp.com. The homepage for Anime Expo was even on tcp.com in the early days... It looks like he retired from his IT career and moved to Taiwan to get ...

http://i.imgur.com/KATTzsY.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQScjlXbBE I thought it was pretty funny. (^_^) I liked how they were able to show how the inter-generational anime fan divide looks to folks from outside of anime fandom, while also clearly being made by fans itself (like the photo of...

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORTAyrAlcM According to the director: I began shooting Otaku Unite! in November 2000. Production wrapped during the summer of 2003. Its world premiere was held at the 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival. It was released on DVD courtesy of Central Park Media in J...

An interview with fansubber, parody dubber, and old-time Usenet troll Bob Beaver, aka C-kO of C-ko's Duplication Service and later CDS Productions. (^_^)

http://kevintumlinson.com/podcast-rss/2 ... bob-beaver

Members of the Vancouver Japanese Animation Society, hanging out at the local anime store Anime Jyanai in the summer of 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5unZ22I_XM

Including a cameo by William Chow, who ran the Arctic Animation fansubbing group. (^_^)

Do you recall the url/pages you found these on? I'd love to see em myself! Sure thing -- the interview was from an online anime magazine called AMPlus: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206124029/http://www.jurai.net/amplus/1.2/lynx/1-toc.html They did a text-only version to make things easier for fo...

All the anime webrings on webring.org, circa 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/199802050115 ... anime.html

http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/

Anyone read this? (^_^)