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On January 21, 2005 at 9:00am San Francisco time, I sent an email to a few animation-loving friends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subject: Scrappyland is live<\/p>

At long last, the greatest obscure cartoon character of all time has a home on the Web:\u00a0 Scrappyland\u00a0is up and running.\u00a0<\/p>

Tell your friends–at least if they’re\u00a0Scrappy\u00a0fans!\u00a0<\/p>

— Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That makes today the 15th anniversary of this site. (It did have a preview mode, with a smidge of content, that lasted through much of 2004.) I don\u2019t remember wondering what sort of future the site would have when I was launching it. But I do know that 2005 Harry would be pleased to know that 2020 Harry was still at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why has writing for this site been such a rewarding experience? Well, it\u2019s rare to get the opportunity to create the definitive resource on anything. (I hope you won\u2019t think me full of myself for considering Scrappyland to be such a resource.) There are other folks who write about Scrappy from time to time\u2014hello, Paul<\/a>, Steve<\/a>, and Uncle John<\/a>\u2014but nobody else would be silly enough to spend so much time on the topic. (Even my own silliness flagged from mid-2005 through mid-2012, a stretch when I performed no meaningful updates to the site\u2014but then I converted it into a blog<\/a> and have since published over a hundred posts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s nice knowing that if people Google for Scrappy, the odds are high they\u2019ll end up here. I can usually answer their questions, and some of the people who land here have stuff of their own to share<\/a>. I find it therapeutic, after spending my days thinking about the present and future of technology<\/a>, to devote some of my brain cells to cartoons that are almost ninety years old. I still get a little tingle from every new Scrappy discovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge with a site like Scrappyland is that the day might arrive when I have nothing left to say\u2014either because I\u2019ve lost the urge or because I\u2019ve covered every possible aspect of the subject. I\u2019m pretty sure my interest won\u2019t flag anytime soon. And even if all I do is write up stuff that\u2019s still in my queue of Scrappy learnings, I\u2019ll have enough material for the next several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for reading, and please stick around for more. Scrappyland has already had a longer run than Scrappy himself did as a cartoon star, so there\u2019s no reason this can\u2019t go on indefinitely.
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On January 21, 2005 at 9:00am San Francisco time, I sent an email to a few animation-loving friends: Subject: Scrappyland is live At long last, the greatest obscure cartoon character of all time has a home on the Web:\u00a0 Scrappyland\u00a0is up and running.\u00a0 Tell your friends–at least if they’re\u00a0Scrappy\u00a0fans!\u00a0 — Harry That makes today the … Continue reading Scrappyland is 15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}