About the museum
Who we are
e-wrestling.org is a collaboration between Argyle and Ryan-o, two old hands from Primetime Central (PTC).
What this is
If you played in the e-wrestling hobby in the 1990s and 2000s, this is for you: rosters, show results, title histories, news and roleplays from the feds we all wrote for, back online and readable. Call it a nostalgia hit.
Where it comes from
The content comes from fed sites saved while they were still running. It was all meant to go up on ewmuseum.com, but "someone" forgot to renew that domain.
Where our own drives came up short, some of the data and artwork has been filled in from the Wayback Machine's copies of the old sites and forums.
Ryan-o also runs another archiving project, ewmuseum.org. The two sites share information, so if you can't find something here, have a look there too.
How it's kept
Everything is posted as it was written at the time. The one thing we change: we make a best effort to cut handlers' and owners' surnames to an initial, for privacy's sake these days.
How it looks
The original website designs haven't been reproduced. The technology they were built on has moved on too far for them to work reliably on today's devices and browsers. Instead, each fed gets a modern layout that works on phones, tablets and computers alike, while including as much of the original content and artwork as we can.
What runs it
The museum is powered by Backstage 3.5. It was first written as Backstage 2 in 2005, upgraded to Backstage 3 in 2006, and is still used by federations today, such as Defiance. Backstage was based on the White Mexican script, which in turn was based on the Ford script.
How it was built
Doing all of this by hand would have taken years, so we had help from AI. It helped write and update the site, and it did the heavy lifting cataloguing the archive. It read through thousands of old pages, forum posts and database backups, worked out which show, wrestler, title or roleplay each piece belonged to, and filed it in the right place. Its work also provided much of the linking between the sites, such as spotting the same wrestler turning up in different feds so their careers join up, along with some new features like the venue map.
The old writing itself isn't rewritten; it appears as it was posted. People made the decisions: what goes in, what gets redacted, and how each fed's story is told. Where the old records disagree, we show both rather than guess. If you spot something that's wrong, let us know in the guest book.
Is your old work here?
If you wrote for one of these feds, we'd love to hear from you, whether you've found your old work here or you're still looking for it. Leave a note in the guest book.