From Wikipedia:

Serial Experiments Lain is an anime series directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, original character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, screenplay written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuyuki Ueda (credited as production 2nd) for Triangle Staff. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. A PlayStation game with the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC.

Lain is influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication.^[1] The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her cold mother, and her computer-obsessed father. The first ripple on the pond of Lain’s lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who committed suicide. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her (in real time) that she is not dead, but has just “abandoned the flesh”, and has found God in the Wired. From then on, Lain is bound to a quest which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own thoughts.

The anime series is licensed in North America by Geneon (previously Pioneer Entertainment) on DVD, VHS and LaserDisc. It was also released in Singapore by Odex. The video game, which shares only the themes and protagonist with the series, was never released outside Japan.

The series shows influences from topics such as philosophy, computer history, cyberpunk literature and conspiracy theory, and it was made the subject of several academic articles. English language anime reviewers found it to be “weird” and unusual, but reviews were still generally positive. Producer Ueda said he intended Japanese and American audiences to form conflicting views on the series, but was disappointed in this regard, as the impressions turned out to be similar.

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Logo for the 2002 T-shirt Christmas presents

I recently happened upon some pictures of the members wearing the t-shirts.

Member "Archtype" sporting a Miscellaneous Debris T-shirt

Member "EdisonRex" in exclusive Miscellaneous Debris tee

Nice!

For starters I’ve been working on trying to takw the newsletter that I do for Olivejar to the net.  Shortly after I began publishing one as a journal on my adventures in home buying, as well as one for my 365 movies in a year project.

So anyway, I went and Googled “miscellaneousdebris” the other day to see just where I am in the world of search results these days, and much to my surprise I apparently had offspring!

Now I admittedly yoinked the name from Primus 10 years after the release of their album.  According to the Wayback Machine, Miscellaneous Debris (as we all knew and loved) existed from 24 December 2000 to 07 February 2003.  In the early days I must have ran the forum under subdomain, probably of geminione.com, as I’m claiming the MD community was born in 2000, whereas the domain miscellaneousdebris.com was not registered until late 2002.  Anyway…

The oldest existing, verifiable history for another Miscellaneous Debris domain, is MiscDebris.net.  WHOIS and Wayback Machine both agree that this domain was not born until 2006.  Well after I had come and gone.

The top hit (non-wiki) is a subdomain (miscellaneousdebris.sitesled.com), and only has content going back to 2007.  The other of note above me, miscellaneousdebris-dingus.blogspot.com also only has content as far back as 2007.

While I have no desire to bring Misc back to what it was, not to mention that it’s usefulness has been replaced by the likes of Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster, I think I’ll keep this around.

Hopefully updated on a regular basis.

Hopefully with some of the traffic from the old days.

Don’t be a stranger.

One of the early banners, which eventually found its way on to tank-tops and panties of women around the world...

...quite literally!