Everything2
Everything2 (styled Everything2), or E2 for short, is a collaborative Web-based community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material. E2 is moderated for quality, but has no formal policy on subject matter. Writing on E2 covers a wide range of topics and genres, including encyclopedic articles, diary entries (known as "daylogs"), poetry, humor, and fiction.
History
The predecessor of E2 was a similar database called Everything (later labeled "Everything2" or "E2") which was started around March 1998 by Nathan Oostendorp and was initially closely aligned with and promoted by the technology-related news website Slashdot (by virtue of various key principals having attended the Holland Christian High School), even sharing (at the time) some administrators. The E2 software offered vastly more features, and the Everything1 data was twice incorporated into E2: once on November 13, 1999, and again in January 2000.
The Everything2 server used to be colocated with the Slashdot servers. However, some time after OSDN acquired Slashdot, and moved the Slashdot servers, this hosting was terminated on short notice. This resulted in Everything2 being offline from roughly November 6 to December 9, 2003. Everything2 was then hosted by the University of Michigan for a time. As the Everything2 site put it on October 2, 2006:
Podcasts:
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by Lollipop Lust Kill
Everything I
by: Lollipop Lust KillIt seems I like it when you cry
My co-dependant lullaby
I'll only play when I make the rules
Your mental weakness is my obvious tool
It seems I like it when you cry
So let me inside
I'm alone with you and you're afraid of me
Tightly close your eyes and pray you just can't see
Everything I, everything I
Everything I, everything I
[Incomprehensible]
Blow out the candle, save the light
One last dead breath it ends your night
Hold out your hands and pray not to die
Grow your little white wings and let your angel fly
Blow out the candle save the light
And let me inside
I'm alone with you and you're afraid of me
Tightly close your eyes and pray you just can't see
Everything I, everything I
Everything I, everything I
Well, everything I took from you
All the lies that you believed
Well, everything I misconstrue
Is everything you can't conceive, yeah
Can you see me here alive with your own two eyes?
Can you see me here alive with your own two eyes?
Can you see me here alive?
Please won't you tell me why you died
And within the deadness was their light?
Where are you now and how does it feel?
Is there a soul or is our mind the real?
Please won't you tell me why you died
And let me inside?
I'm alone with you and you're afraid of me
Tightly close your eyes and pray you just can't see
Everything I, everything I
Everything I, everything I
Well, everything I, everything I
Want
Everything I, everything I
Need
Well, everything I want you to see