Chicken Smoothie Before 2008

[Tsukỉ]

Silent Wolf Kennelz Discussion Thread
CHICKEN SMOOTHIE BEFORE 2008
Table of Contents
Archive • What was SWK? • What did it look like? • Tess's PM • Discussion Rules • Interesting images + Content

PETZ ARCHIVE LINK
http://www.petz-archive.com/

What was SWK?

A Petz website created by Manda and Tessa back in 2003~2004. She created the site around the age of 12/13. It was inactive for a while, until Tess revived the site, and added freebie adoptables (the 08' advent dogs) during April and May +June? and they switched to a code-based adoptable in July of 2008.

No pet IDs or accounts really existed, I believe, so all pets were just image files with the '[img ]www.chickensmoothie.com/somepet.png[/img ]' type with a variant in number depending on the month, as the certification's written month changed.


What did it look like?
You can visit this website here : WebArchive or the GeoSites.

This was pulled from the 'About Tessa' page.

Loves: Pirates, Japan, Pocky, animals eg. zebras, Dr Pepper, Pink Floyd, Hayao Miyazaki + Studio Ghibli, sleeping in, chocolate, fresh fruit, pay day, drawing/painting etc (if that wasn't obvious), music, hot showers

Hates: Art theft, people who email me asking about stuff that is explained clearly on the website, exams and group assignments, the price of hot chocolate

New Zealand on the World Map: As promised, here is a map of my location Yes, New Zealand is that tiny little green line of islands hanging out in the pacific. I'm the red dot.

Tess's PM

Interesting question! Not many people know about our Petz fansite past.

Back in around 2003 or 2004 I became a big fan of the old UbiSoft/P.F.Magic Petz games. I met Manda on a Petz fan forum. Her hobby was designing breeds for the Petz games, and she was very good at it. My hobby was making websites for people, but I didn't have much to put on my own Petz website. She didn't have a website for her Petz breeds and didn't know much about how to start one, so we decided to put our skills together. We ran Silent Wolf Kennelz together for a few years, as a Petz fan site, with various downloadable breeds, toys, clothes and petz files (mostly made by her).

As we grew older we both started to pick up other hobbies, and slowly we let SWK die off. I can't really remember the timeline, but I don't think either of us updated the site from around 2005 or 2006 onwards. In 2008 I decided to bring the site back to life. Manda and I had fallen out of touch by then, so I was reviving the site by myself. Although I was still hosting her files, Manda never had a part in creating the modern site we know as CS, which is why she's uncredited and mostly unheard of here.

SWK had always been hosted on an old webhost called Geocities as a free website. Because it was free, it had limits on how much data we could transfer. So basically, whenever people downloaded our petz files, we'd hit the hourly limit and the site would go down for a few hours, or days. By 2008 I was finally old enough to own a debit card, so I was able to pay for internet hosting and solve our free-host problems. I bought the domain name chickensmoothie.com because it was my nickname at the time, but the site was still named Silent Wolf Kennelz when I brought it back online.

Without putting much thought into it, I added some adoptables to the site to try and draw some more traffic to our grand re-opening. Those eventually became the CS pets we know today. After a few months of that it became clear to me that most our traffic only came for the adoptables and didn't know what Petz even was, and people were getting confused about the dual purpose of the site (we had "adoptables" (cs pets) and "adoptions" (petz files) so you can see how that would be confusing. The site also had the dual names Chicken Smoothie and SWK because of the domain name disparity) I got sick of explaining it to people so eventually I removed all our Petz content and officially renamed to Chicken Smoothie. I made another site to archive our old Petz stuff: http://www.petz-archive.com/

I can't remember exactly when, but at some point Manda found me on Facebook and we re-connected, which was really cool. She did return to the Petz Community, and was still active sometime last year, but I'm not sure how involved she is these days.

Last I heard of her Petz Community involvement, she was co-owner of this site:
http://gossipin.filthyhippie.net/index.php

Although that site seems to have fallen inactive, I know she is still alive and well

The Geocities version of our old site is a little weird. The real web host Geocities was shut down in 2009 and as I had changed email addresses I didn't get any warning to back up or remove the old SWK sites. Someone else not associated with Yahoo decided to restore old Geocities sites from archived files. Due to authentication problems I can't access those accounts. So the half-broken SWK pages on the internet are out of our control now, neither me nor Manda can edit or remove those. If you speak to Petz fans about SWK please show them our working archive site:
http://www.petz-archive.com/

This reply was sent by Tess, a member of our Administrators group.

Rules
All of Tess's rules apply.
1. Please stay on topic of this thread. It's specifically about old CS or SWK.
2. Don't double-post under normal circumstances.
3. No arguments. This topic shouldn't even cause them.

Interesting Images + Content
If you have any screenshots or any info, please feel free to post.



Mysterious Relic


This item can make your pet resemble the old SWK pets.

[KittyWarrior]

THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!

[Tess]

The reason the CS archive begins in July 2008 is because that's when we switched to our current adoption system, where pets get unique adoption ID numbers. But we did start sharing adoptables earlier, in ~April 2008. Those earlier pets were re-released in our first advent calendar in December 2008 and we know them as advents

This is all making me feel really old. I started SWK when I was the same age as most CS players.

[acatalepsy]

This is so cool to read about

[heathersmoo]

cool!

[cass]

Ah I remember that's how I found this site, it was through SWK when Petz was much more popular way back when. I came here looking for some of the breed files that Tess had on the site, Wow that was a long time ago though I feel super old now haha!

[Tsukỉ]

Bump-up, I'd like more 2008 members to see this.

[arcticwolf]

It's neat to see all of this information in one place. I remember joining in 2008 because I kept seeing CS pets in users' signatures on a Petz forum. I'm no longer active in the Petz community but I spent many years there. I remember getting my first copy of a Petz game in elementary school at a book fair.

[Tsukỉ]

Bump-up, I'd like more 2008 members to see this.

[PikaPerfect]

Wow, this is actually pretty cool! ^-^ I never knew what CS looked like before it was CS!