Anenga (site)

Anenga redirects here. If you were looking for the person, see Anenga (person).

After Bulbagarden went down in 2001, Chris (the infamous Bulbagarden himself) announced his newest project, Anenga.

Short for "Anime, Entertainment, and Games" (leaving out the other sections: Life, Music, and Technology), exactly what Anenga was to become remains ambiguous today. At first, it was going to be the first product of a proprietary software that he was developing with a friend. It would be a sort of "cool" Slashdot with less of a geek focus.

In 2003, the forums were opened to the public and some page demos were shown. Would Anenga finally open after two long years of speculation? Would the BMGf community finally reunite in a new permanent location, after having spent the previous two years drifting between splinter bulletin boards (Water Croc's Crib, Shy Guy's Toy Box, Sakaki's board, and BMGfR)?

Unfortunatly, the answer to that would be no.

The introduction of TikiWiki changed Anenga's focus considerably. Now it was to be a "media hub." It would become this "über-site" with user submitted news, articles, blogs, and more. Months passed without a word from Chris (save for an almost non-existant "demo") and most lost their hope in seeing a completed Anenga

There are a few questions to ask about the Anengas, the project, the person, and the ideology. Perhaps Anenga became a victim of its own promise? Was Chris too ambitious in his plans for the site? As he became more and more involved in Shareaza, did he start to lose interest in Anenga?

In any case, Anenga seems to have suffered from the same fate as many of his pet projects. The forums are still heavily populated today by many of the most well known (and probably forgotten) faces of the old BMGf. Chris, himself, seems to have completely disappeared from the internet. He pops up from time to time on AIM, and on posts on the Shareaza forum, perhaps to remind us that he does, in fact, exist.

Update: Following the expiration of Chris's hosting of Anenga with Snor:Snor, Anenga Forums, now operated by User:Tenchi-Oak:Tenchi-Oak, have moved to http://anenga.secondimpact.net