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The Audio Portal and multi-authorship system were introduced in this year, and the termination of the Troma contract gave Fulp's team full control of Newgrounds' servers, which ultimately resulted in moving them from Troma's original placement in New York City to a facility in Philadelphia.
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In 2002, a friend of Fulp's overhauled the site's PHP infrastructure to improve its slow performance and Troma allowed them to upgrade their servers, although their affiliation came to an end in 2003 hosting costs overall were significantly reduced once hosting was switched to a different bandwidth provider. In the years that followed, the dot-com bubble had collapsed, and Newgrounds struggled to stay afloat while other entertainment websites soon went out of business ad revenue was slow to come in, and hosting equipment needed to be upgraded as servers could not support the traffic. The Newgrounds tank logo was introduced in 2000, and has been a mainstay for Newgrounds' brand identity ever since. Newgrounds was formed into the first Flash showcase site of this type through this change in content focus, from Fulp's own work to that of other Flash artists, though he continued to produce content of his own. At the time, Fulp's creations still had the predominant placement on Newgrounds' front page the automated Portal opened the floor to other artists, who submitted work that would soon surpass his own. Ad revenue had increased, so Fulp hired Ross and together they started development of the automated Portal. Many users had begun submitting their own Flash creations to Fulp, which he showcased in a portion of the site called "The Portal."Ī friend of Fulp's by the name of Ross built the Grounds Gold system, which allowed users to gain points for visiting the site. The site received global attention, having been featured in Yahoo Internet Life Magazine, Stuff magazine, Internet Tonight (ZDTV), , and many other media outlets.Īmong other changes made to the site as the years went on, Fulp also added a chat room and message board, which allowed for an established community to build on Newgrounds. Newgrounds' notoriety increased through a copyright infringement dispute with the BBC over Teletubby Fun Land, which was renamed Tele bubby Fun Land as a result. Running out of options, Fulp partnered with Troma, who hosted the site in exchange for a share of ad revenue. The current host of the Newgrounds site wanted over $1000 per month at the time, and Fulp was dropped by the only reliable advertisement revenue company due to the controversial content on NG. Banner ads were introduced to pay growing hosting bills, but Fulp was still unable to make ends meet. By 1999, traffic to Newgrounds was considerable and Fulp had to change hosts every few months.
He redirected traffic from both of the older New Ground sites to Newgrounds, paying $33 per month out of pocket to host the site.įulp had to change hosts to accommodate increasing traffic, and started producing T-shirts in an attempt to pay off hosting fees. Later that year, Fulp was contacted by Inside Edition about doing a segment on "Assassin", and decided he needed to give his online creations a name that would stick, settling on "Newgrounds". A Flash front page was introduced to New Ground Atomix and the flash game "Telebubby Fun Land" was released. In early 1998, Fulp began experimenting with Macromedia Flash.
He created a separate website, New Ground Atomix, for this purpose. In 1997, Fulp created the games "Club a Seal II" and "Assassin II," and decided that he wanted a new place to host these games. New Ground Remix had a small amount of content, but did not gain a significant audience until summer of 1996, when Tom created the games "Club a Seal" and "Assassin," which brought viewers to New Ground based on their notoriety.
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At this time New Ground was an entirely offline venue, and it was not until 1995 that he decided to create his own web page, naming it New Ground Remix to imply moving content online was the next step up in the brand's history. In 1994, Tom Fulp launched a Neo Geo fanzine by the name "New Ground" (from the Greek roots neo- and geo-translated into English) from his parents' basement in Perkasie, PA, sending sporadic issues to around 100 members of a club on Prodigy.
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