Metababy
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Metababy is a historical Raw Html Wiki created and coded by Greg Knauss and designed by Leslie Harpold. Metababy's main page shows the last created/edited page with a navbar at the bottom. The website allows editing, posting and viewing of HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
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[edit] The Old Metababy
When Metababy was fist introduced in November 1998[1] the editors and creators of pages had a lot of fun expressing their freedoms. The number of pages created would reach up into the hundreds before getting wiped out. Participants of the metababy community would still continue to create more pages. At one time Metababy allowed emails to metababy@metababy.com. The Metababy site would auto-create the incoming email as a new page. The Metababy site died out due to the increasing number of spam and offensive posts. In May, 2003[2] it was temporarily shutdown by its creators.[3]
[edit] Metababy Today
Today, Metababy has been restored at http://www.metababy.com. However the pages are still continuously victims of spam. The spam posts today are often posts by other users who choose to display text messages copied from random myspace and facebook users as well as "looks like porn but its not" photos from photobucket. Metababy v 2.2 claims to use typekey to authenticate users.[4] However this tool was discontinued due to lack of community participation.[citation needed] Metababy is still an example to the world of wiki for the needs of rules and policies to prevent agents bot type attacks as well as malicious users.[citation needed]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The Official Metababy website.-WARNING: The main page could be anything, including upsetting or otherwise unfortunately unforgettable imagery, or a statement by Ed Harris. (It is a victim of spammers.) Please exercise discretion when viewing the main page.
- A gallery of old metababy pages that have been since deleted.
