Bulbagarden

Bulbagarden

Language	English
Status	Active
Run	2001 - Present
Date opened	2001
Creator	Anenga
Current owner	{{{owner}}}
Forum	BMGf
Mascot	Bulbasaur
Website	Main Page

Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden, commonly known as Bulbagarden, is an English-language Pokémon community. It is most well known for Bulbapedia, its forums, and the lack of an accompanying website.

File:Titlecard.png

The titlecard for Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden, the episode for which Bulbagarden is named.

Bulbagarden has, in recent years, made major pushes into the "Web 2.0" philosophy, starting with Bulbapedia and continuing with the Oekaki and the Bulbawiki networks.

History

The original Bulbagarden.com website was run by Bulbasaur ("Bulba", later known as Anenga after moving on from Bulbagarden), and was in operation during the so-called heyday of Pokémon Websites, in the peerage of such esteemed sites as TPM, Azure Heights, and the original UPN. The original site was shut down at the beginning of 2001 after problems with advertisers left Bulba with no ability to pay for server operation. The files were held in stasis on the server until the beginning of February, during which time the (then) forum head admin Archaic launched a desperate bid to fund the server for just 1 more month, enough to be allowed access to the files again and to make a forum backup.

Archaic brought the site back in late 2002, following significant downtime on the part of Serebii.net, contracting the services of major players in the Pokémon community at the time. After opening on January 1, 2003, Bulbagarden.com prospered, quickly gaining memberships on the forums and struggling to put a worthy site up for operations. A pilot site had been completed, but a full version was never offered.

About a year later, the Bulbagarden.com domain name expired and was promptly squatted, or bought out by a company devoted to spam. After many attempts to reestablish the site at Bulbagarden.com, it was decided to move to a .net domain name, becoming (as it is today) Bulbagarden.net, which continues under the ownership of Archaic. Its traffic has rapidly increased, and it has risen to prominence over the past two years as one of the major communities in the online Pokémon fandom.

Bulbagarden's current projects include but are not limited to Bulbapedia, this very Pokémon encyclopedia, Bulbanews, a Pokémon news wiki, the Oekaki, and various other anime synopses and Pokémon data classification projects.

Hostees

In its long history, Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden hosted a wide variety or websites in an time where Pokémon sites were scrambling to be hosted by the bigger and more popular sites. One such place was Articuno Island, or Prussian Town as it was known then. BMG currently hosts many other sites, including Dogasu's Backpack and the Japanese Pokémon Wiki, but Articuno Island was one of the first as it was one of the oldest Pokémon sites on the web.