History ArtifactTitle / WebOriginal

* When Website/FiveMinuteDotNet was first created, it was called Five-Minute Voyager because the only fivers (parodic summaries of works intended to be read in five minutes) were of episodes of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. As the years went on and the scope increased, there were occasional efforts to rename. Even after the site moved to a new domain under its current title you'd still find more people calling it 5MV than 5M.net. [[http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1678 Eventually Zeke gave up]], and you're allowed to use 5MV again. He explains (links to TV Tropes pages not in the original)...
-->I don't have to change the name or address of the site to change the abbreviation for it! I live in a world where [[UsefulNotes/SATs SAT doesn't officially stand for anything]] and [[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. keeps changing what it stands for]] and WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} is pronounced "ruby"! I can have a site called Website/FiveMinuteDotNet and abbreviate it [[NonindicativeName 5MV]] if I want! [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Am I sultan or am I sultan?]]''

* Before Website/{{Facebook}} was the social networking phenomenon that we know today, a "facebook" (or "face book") was a popular colloquialism for a university's student directory, which gave college students an easy way to look up one another's contact info. Mark Zuckerberg originally created his website as an online version of such, annoyed that Harvard University was taking too long to comprehensively move their student directory online. By now, Facebook has been open to the entirety of the public (not just college students) for around a decade, and the addition of Notes, "Like" buttons and status updates has made it far more than a simple tool for sharing information.

* The infamous ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' used to be a wiki dedicated to chronicling Internet drama (more specifically, Website/LiveJournal drama), hence the "drama" in its name. But then Website/FourChan discovered it, and mutated it into a cesspool of shock and offensive contents for /b/ trolls that the world knows of today.

** The Wiki covers not just TV but now video games, movies, comic books, literature and more. It also covers more than just {{Trope}}s: documenting AudienceReactions and {{Trivia}}, both of which are specifically described as [[Administrivia/NotATrope Not Tropes]], make up a very important part of the site, with many works having a YMMV page that's as long as its trope list. And with features such as UsefulNotes, and subject pages that completely lack tropes, it's become more akin to Website/{{Everything2}} than anything its title would suggest. There have been efforts to curtail it, with mixed results.

*** Prior to its rename to Trope Launch Pad, the "[[TropeLaunchPad You Know That Thing Where]]" page was titled around the idea that the person posting the trope idea needs help gathering a title or examples for the trope ("You know that thing where this happens? What should we call that?"), but it's currently used as a general vetting procedure for all new trope ideas, even ones where the person posting the idea already has a good title in mind and a number of examples. It can also be used for works, UsefulNotes and indexes.

* [[https://www.bilibili.com/ BiliBili]] is a famous Chinese video-hosting website, that was created with the intent of letting people share clips based on their geeky hobbies, with a primary focus on anime and video games. Eventually, the site grew to become a massive, all-purpose entertainment site that's effectively the Chinese answer to {{Website/Youtube}}... but since they can't exactly drop the domain and brand, it's still named after [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Misaka "Biribiri" Mikoto]], a ''very'' niche name for how mainstream it's grown.

* Website/{{deviantART}}: The [[MediaWatchDog Media Watch Dogs]] are hitting the site so hard that it's no longer "deviant". Also features a Group system where groups might not be art related. This has led several people to switch over to [=FurAffinity=], despite the fact that they don't even draw [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry art]]. The website also allows one to write pieces of literature. In fact, some members don't even post pieces of art at all, instead, opting to post stories, poems, etc.

* [[https://www.bilibili.com/ BiliBili]] is a famous Chinese video-hosting website, that was created with the intent of letting people share clips based on their geeky hobbies, with a primary focus on anime and video games. Eventually, the site grew to become a massive, all-purpose entertainment site that's effectively the chinese answer to {{Website/Youtube}}... but since they can't exactly drop the domain and brand, it's still named after [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Misaka "Biribiri" Mikoto]], a ''very'' niche name for how mainstream it's grown.

* The astronomy website [https://nineplanets.org/ nineplanets.org] doesn't make sense anymore since Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet in 2006. The website lampshades this with the tagline "(We still love you, Pluto!)".

** IGN stands for Imagine Games Network. Now it delves heavily into general geek culture.

* [=BiliBili=] is a famous Chinese video-hosting website, that was created with the intent of letting people share clips based on their geeky hobbies, with a primary focus on anime and video games. Eventually, the site grew to become a massive, all-purpose entertainment site that's effectively the chinese answer to {{Website/Youtube}}... but since they can't exactly drop the domain and brand, it's still named after [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Misaka "Biribiri" Mikoto]], a ''very'' niche name for how mainstream it's grown.

* Website/ItHeSoftware. It was originally created to showcase the author's software and {{Game Mod}}s. It's now known mostly for its [[SequenceBreaking anti-walkthroughs]].
* Some blogs on [[http://www.sbnation.com/blogs#basketball SB Nation]], most notably the Toronto Maple Leafs' [[AlliterativeTitle Pension Plan Puppets]] -- it referenced how the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan owned most of the team's parent company, but they have since sold their share. One at least confesses the nostalgia out front: the Washington Wizards one references the team's previous name, Bullets Forever.
* [[http://www.textfiles.com/ Textfiles.com]] started out as an archive of old text files (mostly from the BBS era of the '80s and '90s), but now has lots of content that isn't a text file.

* ''[[http://www.11points.com 11 Points]]'' started off as a website where [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the author makes 11-item lists]]. After 6 and a half years of this, the first article of 2015 was "[[http://www.11points.com/Games/Can_I_Beat_Super_Mario_Bros_With_My_Feet Can I Beat Super Mario Bros. With My Feet?]]", ending with the author explaining that he was losing his passion in list-based articles, so he's now writing articles about things that excite him. Of the 44 articles published in 2015 as of March 30, four of them are 11-item lists.
* [[https://www.gamespot.com/ Gamespot]] since its formation in 1996 all the way until 2014 focused on video games exclusively, as the title would suggest. Then in 2015, they began to expand into general entertainment including movies, TV shows, books, and anything else that makes the news. Yet the name "Gamespot" remains. To say that the sudden shift in focus annoyed fans would be making a massive understatement.
* Many major game sites have started doing general entertainment news. IGN stands for Imagine Games Network. Now it delves heavily into general geek culture.
* Website/PlatypusComix receives more attention for its articles than for its comics these days. Author Peter Paltridge might have become aware: During the first five months of 2017, he posted five new articles, but only half of a comic.

* [[https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ Does the Dog Die?]] started out doing ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (i.e. stating whether or not an animal is harmed in a movie) but expanded to include both a much more specific and thorough list of possible animal based harm (such as if there are dog fights or a specific type of animal dies) as well as very thoroughly covering anything that might be triggering, such as common phobias like snakes or clowns, {{jump scare}}s, suicide, drug use, gore, sexual assault, plane crashes, and so on.
* [[https://www.dcinside.com/ DCInside]], a popular South Korean internet forum, was initially established as a venue to discuss about digital cameras (DC standing for '''d'''igital '''c'''amera no less), but has since evolved into a Website/FourChan of sorts for the South Korean internet community and has also unfortunately been influenced by far-right movements since TheNewTens.

* Like [=TVTropes=], [[http://www.imfdb.org/ The Internet Movie Firearm Database]] isn't restricted to just movies and includes guns from other visual mediums like television and video games.
* Likewise, [[http://www.impdb.org/ The Internet Movie Plane Database]], which includes appearances of its subject matter (airplanes) in other media that isn't movies, and any other similar sites.
* [[Website/IMDb The Internet Movie Database]] has pages on TV shows, shorts, and video games.
* Website/{{Wikipedia}} has three instances of this:
** The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight oversight]]" user right, restricted to a small group of trusted administrators, allows those with it to allow access to a past edit by only administrators or, in some cases, only other oversighters; and also [[CanonDiscontinuity even remove an edit from the history]] in extreme cases. These steps are usually taken only within strictly defined situations for defamation or privacy reasons. When the feature was being added to [=MediaWiki=], the original idea was that all administrators would be allowed to take these steps[[note]]A step eventually taken when the [=RevDel=] extension was made live for all admins in 2009, although it does not allow administrators to hide individual revisions from the history[[/note]], and the special group would have extra rights in order to provide "oversight" of this feature. The extension was developed under this name, and it was kept even as it was revised to allow only oversighters this power.
** By the nomenclature and practice used within Wikipedia's namespaces, "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know Template talk:Did you know]]" would be expected to be the page where people would discuss technical and design issues with the "Did you know ...?" template used on the site's Main Page to highlight new articles. Instead, it is devoted to evaluating and approving the many nominations for "hooks" in it and the articles linked (because in the early days, people started using that page for the purpose since there were a lot less nominations).
** The "Biographies of Living Persons" policy, requiring stricter sourcing and caution for articles about living people, also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Recently_dead_or_probably_dead applies to those recently deceased.]]

* Although anyone can still upload documents, [[http://www.wikileaks.org WikiLeaks]] stopped allowing people to edit them afterwards a long time ago, so it's no longer truly a wiki.

* [[https://www.xda-developers.com/ XDA Developers]], a forum for smart device development and hacking, was so named as their original focus was on the O[[subscript:2]] Xda line of smartphones manufactured by HTC and sold by O[[subscript:2]] and various other telcos under their respective brands. They have largely moved on to Android development since TheNewTens, but the old XDA moniker remains.

* [[https://www.dvdizzy.com/index.html DVDizzy]] hasn't reviewed any [=DVDs=] since 2019, focusing nowadays on reviewing movies still playing in theaters.

* [[http://www.dennogumi.org/ dennogumi.org]] was once a fansite about ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara'' (''Akihabara Denno Gumi''). The webmaster then converted the domain into his personal blog in which he writes primarily about Linux and practically nothing about said anime.
* When Website/FiveMinuteDotNet was first created, it was called Five-Minute Voyager because the only fivers (parodic summaries of works intended to be read in five minutes) were of episodes of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. As the years went on and the scope increased, there were occasional efforts to rename. Even after the site moved to a new domain under its current title you'd still find more people calling it 5MV than 5M.net. [[http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1678 Eventually Zeke gave up]], and you're allowed to use 5MV again. He explains (links to TV Tropes pages not in the original)...
--->I don't have to change the name or address of the site to change the abbreviation for it! I live in a world where [[UsefulNotes/SATs SAT doesn't officially stand for anything]] and [[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D. keeps changing what it stands for]] and WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} is pronounced "ruby"! I can have a site called Website/FiveMinuteDotNet and abbreviate it [[NonindicativeName 5MV]] if I want! [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Am I sultan or am I sultan?]]''
* Website/{{deviantART}}: The [[MediaWatchDog Media Watch Dogs]] are hitting the site so hard that it's no longer "deviant". Also features a Group system where groups might not be art related. This has led several people to switch over to [=FurAffinity=], despite the fact that they don't even draw [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry art]]. The website also allows one to write pieces of literature. In fact, some members don't even post pieces of art at all, instead, opting to post stories, poems, etc.

* [[https://fogu.com Fogu.com]], the URL of the popular ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' help site ''Ushi no Tane'' stands for "Federation of Golden Underwear", as it was originally a ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fansite with the ''Story of Seasons'' content on the side. Eventually the popularity of ''Ushi no Tane'' far eclipsed the main [=TMNT=] site and the site was revamped to only be about ''Story of Seasons''.

* The ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' news site [[https://www.hltv.org/ HLTV.org]] got its name after "Half-Life TV" (HLTV), an in-game spectator/replay system for ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' and its mods, including ''Counter-Strike'' version 1.6 and older. The site was launched in 2002 as a provider of HLTV IP addresses for ongoing and upcoming professional matches[[note]]In the olden days before streaming and social media, to spectate a professional ''CS'' match, you need to acquire the HLTV IP address of said match and join via the game client as a spectator.[[/note]], as well as ''CS''-related news. With the advent of online video sharing and streaming as well as ''Global Offensive'' succeeding ''1.6'' as the main title in the competitive scene, HLTV.org replaced HLTV [=IPs=] with streaming links and GOTV, ''CS:GO's'' proprietary spectator/replay system.
* The infamous ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' used to be a wiki dedicated to chronicling Internet drama (more specifically, Website/LiveJournal drama), hence the "drama" in its name. But then Website/FourChan discovered it, and mutated it into a cesspool of shock and offensive contents for /b/ trolls that the world knows of today.
* [=BiliBili=] is a famous Chinese video-hosting website, that was created with the intent of letting people share clips based on their geeky hobbies, with a primary focus on anime and video games. Eventually, the site grew to become a massive, all-purpose entertainment site that's effectively the chinese answer to {{Website/Youtube}}... but since they can't exactly drop the domain and brand, it's still named after [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Misaka "Biribiri" Mikoto]], a ''very'' niche name for how mainstream it's grown.

* The infamous ''[[https://encyclopediadramatica.online Encyclopedia Dramatica]]'' used to be a wiki dedicated to chronicling Internet drama (more specifically, Website/LiveJournal drama), hence the "drama" in its name. But then Website/FourChan discovered it, and mutated it into a cesspool of shock and offensive contents for /b/ trolls that the world knows of today.

*** Likewise, ScrewedByTheNetwork can apply to studios and publishers as well.

*** Prior to its rename to Trope Launch Pad, the "[[TropeLaunchPad You Know That Thing Where]]" page was titled around the idea that the person posting the trope idea needs help gathering a title or examples for the trope ("You know that thing where this happens? What should we call that?"), but it's currently used as a general vetting procedure for all new trope ideas, even ones where the person posting the idea already has a good title in mind and a number of examples. It can also be used for works and indexes.

*** "Crowners" are called that because they were originally developed to determine which SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome was the ''crowning'' moment of awesome, before the userbase collectively realized that awesomeness was simply too subjective to reliably choose the most awesome moment and dropped that requirement. In the meantime, it was noticed that they made an awfully handy tool for just about any conceivable thing that might need to be voted on, and now they're used for just about everything ''except'' their original purpose.

*** The trope AwesomeMomentOfCrowning was a pun on "Crowning Moment of Awesome", a trope which was renamed to simply SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. Thus AwesomeMomentOfCrowning, while making sense and describing the trope, is now something of an artifact. It still sort of works, though, as the old SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome name remains in common troper usage, even if it's not the actual title (its inverse, [[invoked]] DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck, is policed to avoid such TropeDecay, so that it remains about the worst moment for a person, not just any sucky moment).

** The "TV" part of TV Tropes--and also the "LiveActionTV" category--is becoming an artifact in another way: Almost half of all new shows today run on internet streaming services like Creator/{{Netflix}} or Creator/{{Hulu}}, which you can watch on your computer, phone, or tablet. There are ways to watch on your television, but you're still accessing a website rather than watching an over-the-air broadcast. There was a brief time when a few tropers listed streamed shows under WebVideo, but nowadays it's generally accepted that ''web videos'' are under 20 minutes in length, independently-produced, usually free to watch, and released on websites, while shows on Netflix and the like are big-budget serials from major studios starring Hollywood-level talent and you have to pay subscription costs to watch, making it conceptually close enough to TV for our purposes.

** The "Biographies of Living Persons" policy, requiring stricter sourcing and caution for articles about living people, also [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Recently_dead_or_probably_dead applies to those recently deceased]].

** The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight oversight]]" user right, restricted to a small group of trusted administrators, allows those with it to allow access to a past edit by only administrators or, in some cases, only other oversighters; and also [[CanonDiscontinuity even remove an edit from the history]] in extreme cases. These steps are usually taken only within strictly defined situations for defamation or privacy reasons. When the feature was being added to [=MediaWiki=], the original idea was that all administrators would be allowed to take these steps[[note]]A step eventually taken when the [=RevDel=] extension was made live for all admins a few years ago, although it does not allow administrators to hide individual revisions from the history[[/note]], and the special group would have extra rights in order to provide "oversight" of this feature. The extension was developed under this name, and it was kept even as it was revised to allow only oversighters this power.

** The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight oversight]]" user right, restricted to a small group of trusted administrators, allows those with it to allow access to a past edit by only administrators or, in some cases, only other oversighters; and also [[CanonDiscontinuity even remove an edit from the history]] in extreme cases. These steps are usually taken only within strictly defined situations for defamation or privacy reasons. When the feature was being added to [=MediaWiki=], the original idea was that all administrators would be allowed to take these steps[[note]]A step eventually taken when the [=RevDel=] extension was made live for all admins a few years ago, although it does not allow administrators to hide individual revisions from the history[[/note]], and the special group would have extra rights in order to provide "oversight" of this feature. The extension was developed under this name, and it was kept even as it was revised to allow only overisghters this power.

** The "TV" part of TV Tropes--and also the "LiveActionTV" category--is becoming an artifact in another way: Almost half of all new shows today run on internet streaming services like Creator/{{Netflix}} or Creator/{{Hulu}}, which you can watch on your computer, phone, or tablet. There are ways to watch on your television, but you're still accessing a website rather than watching an over-the-air broadcast. There was a brief time when a few tropers listed streamed shows under WebVideo, but nowadays it's generally accepted that ''web videos'' are under 20 minutes in length, independently-produced, usually free to watch, and released on social media platforms, while shows on Netflix and the like are big-budget serials from major studios starring Hollywood-level talent and you have to pay subscription costs to watch, making it conceptually close enough to TV for our purposes.

* ''[[http://animefeet.blogspot.com/ Anime Feet]]'' is a blog, about, well [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Anime]] Feet ([[AlwaysFemale of girls, that is]]). It soon drifted to more of "Animated Feet" as it included ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' or ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', though that was still somewhat close to the original idea (especially since the former is {{animesque}}), moreso compared to.... COSPLAYER FEET, which aren't even animated at all! And while some did cosplay as anime characters, there was stuff such as [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] or even an OriginalCharacter. The cosplaying wasn't a one-off thing, it was the only thing posted for one month (During which the page had the subtitle "Cosplayers rule!", almost {{lampshading}} its decay). They even had another month dedicated to the actresses of the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies, which couldn't get further from anime if they tried. One wonders why they just don't change their name to "Female Feet", as outside the top banner there's been barely any anime feet whatsoever in a long time. To be exact, for the eight first months of 2011 they only had TWO updates featuring actual anime feet, and none by the site owner himself. In fact, the owner doesn't seem to care much about the artifact-ness, as in an update he said cheerfully he now posted a large variety of female feet from various mediums and while he listed stuff like film or comic books, he ''didn't list anime''. (Well, it was included as part of "various animated feet", but the fact he couldn't even mention it standalone despite being the blog's name is kinda sad).

* The ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' news site [[https://www.hltv.org/ HLTV.org]] got its name after "Half-Life TV" (HLTV), an in-game spectator/replay system for ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' and its mods, including ''Counter-Strike'' version 1.6 and older. It was launched in 2002 as a provider of HLTV IP addresses for ongoing and upcoming professional matches[[note]]In the olden days before streaming and social media, to spectate a professional ''CS'' match, you need to acquire the HLTV IP address of said match and join via the game client as a spectator.[[/note]], as well as ''CS''-related news. With the advent of online video sharing and streaming as well as ''Global Offensive'' succeeding ''1.6'' as the main title in the competitive scene, HLTV.org replaced HLTV [=IPs=] with streaming links and GOTV, ''CS:GO's'' proprietary spectator/replay system.

* Main/{{Creepypasta}} as a word is derived from ''copypasta'', a term used to describe walls of text (usually humorous and/or offensive in nature) copied and pasted onto message boards, comments sections, emails, etc.[[note]]some famous recent examples of these would be [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty ''To Be Fair You Have To Have a Very High IQ'']] and [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith ''The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise'']].[[/note]] Creepypastas were originally just that, except intended to unnerve or frighten readers rather than offending or amusing them. Today, the word "creepypasta" can refer to pretty any horror media made by and for the internet, with some of these pastas being [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets web series]], [[VideoGame/LunaGame video games]], [[WebVideo/{{Petscop}} or even both]] rather than text-based stories.

* Wiki/TVTropes:

* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has three instances of this: