In The Early Days of the Internet, We Had Geocities!!

While digging through some Hikaru Nishida memorabilia, I came across soe printouts from what were, at the time, just about the ONLY place to find information on your fave artists, that archaic web server GEOCITIES!

Back then graphics were as basic as you could get, but for a lad living in Hawaii and as far from Japan as he could be, the fan pages set up there were a treasure trove of information! Hikaru Nishida, Zard, Princess Princess Chisato Moritaka, there were fun pages to discover if you delved deep enough, and many, many scans and pin-ups to download!

One big drawback I had was that back then not a lot of regular computers could read Japanese  characters, so you got that wingding looking "gobbledegook" (those pink symbols you see at the upper right of the page). You had to upload Japanese fonts into your computer to make it "decode" the stuff.

Ah, those early days, sitting at the computer wandering through GeoCities sites. there was a great Nishida Hikaru one called something like "Hikaru Land" and there was a map with 'islands" you clicked on to take you to the various departments. Wish I had kept an image of that page. Heck, I never even saved an image of my original Geocities J-drama trading page, the place where I got my namesake!

Spent all those nights on Geocities J-pop sites grabbing all the Hikaru goodness I could, and here are some of the images I still had on my harddrive!

As you may have guessed, BOY did I LOVE these pics!!!

I remember there were more- one of Hikaru catching a piece of toast. Wonder where these images all initially came from?