Some of us remember them. They had solid color or psychedelic backgrounds. Most were found at geocities.com or angelfire.com. Some of them played midi files and had animated .gifs of peace signs, hippies, a whole lot of buttons that proclaimed things like "NezScape" and "Best Viewed with a Monkee." They used comic sans font in all different colors and used photos straight from monkees.net that were approved by Rhino Records.

They were the original Monkees fansites on the world wide web. Old school Monkees fansites were made between 1996-2000 and can be divided into two groups: those made by older generation fans that had been chatting on the newgroups alt.music.monkees since the mid-90s, and the third generation fans that were around my age (14-18) in the late 90s. Although the sites made by the older fans (Auntie Grizelda's Page, Monkees.net, etc.) were very interesting (as was the discussion at a.m.m), I was more intrigued by the fansites made by younger people; the sites that had loads of photos, fan fiction, interesting layouts (for the times), a sometimes snarky attitude, and were definitely from a younger perspective.

But before we talk about these, I'll give you a brief run-down of my history on the dear old world wide web. I first made a website in 1998 on aol. I don't remember what it was called. It might of had the world "Groovy" in the title (hey, I was a hippie back in the day....) It was about music in general. I think I tried to block it out of my mind. After that, I made a Beatles site in 1998 called "The Beatles Domain." It was on angelfire.com. I found some of the old content. How precious. Keep in mind I was 14 or 15 at the time. Around that time, I was just getting into the Monkees, so I made a website called "The Birds, The Bees and the Monkees" on fortunecity. A lot of the content that you see on Psycho Jello was on that site as well, and I soon changed the name to Psycho Jello in 1999. here's a blast from the past. Around the same time, I also had a music site called ZILCH which is pretty lame. I can't believe I used to say groovy so much.





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