Cassie’s website

Cassie Newton was a character in the season seven episode Help. The Buffy production team created a Geocities website in the guise of Cassie. The episode’s writer, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, composed the poetry and created the art that appeared on the site, based on her own teenage journals. Buffy fans flooded the website’s guestbook several times after the episode was shown. Christopher Buchanan (president of Mutant Enemy) said of the site:

“Well, could we put up a site, not affiliated with the official Buffy site or anything, but just, like, this is a teenage girl’s site that she put up on Geocities. Very simple. And we didn’t really publicize it. There was no link on the Buffy site. It was just kind of something we did for fun. Three of the writers were having a chat on one of the fan sites and mentioned just to check it out. By the time the show aired, some of the fans already knew about it. But 5 million people saw it, and all of a sudden, it just went crazy. We’ve had almost 200,000 hits. I get with alarming frequency things saying, ‘You’ve exceeded your data transfer limits. For $5, you can have another 500 megabytes.’ But it’s been a lot of fun. The thing that’s been amazing to me is, we put a basic guest book on there. I think it allows 50 entries. It has filled up 30 times. And we have so many e-mails, we’ve been returning the e-mails in Cassie’s voice, and we’re 100 behind. It’s just been a blast. The thing about it I loved was, we did things like, when we registered the domain, we registered it as Cassie Newton, and of course, the fans are like, “We notice that she lives on 13 Shadow Lane” [in Sunnydale].”

The whois information for the website was:

Admin Name……….. Cassie Newton
Admin Address…….. 13 Shadow Lane
Admin Address……..
Admin Address…….. Sunnydale
Admin Address…….. 94086
Admin Address…….. CA
Admin Address…….. UNITED STATES
Admin Email………. newcassie@yahoo.com
Admin Phone………. 666-442-8363

The zip code 94086 is, in reality, the zip code for Sunnyvale, California. Notice also that Cassie’s phone number begins with the demonic 666!
The website is no longer available but many thanks to vickyclare who pointed out that some of the page can still be accessed via the wonderful Wayback Machine website. You can read some of the poems and see the guestbook, though a lot of images are missing from the site.

   
Source:Scifiwire
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    Added: › 28th September 2004
    Updated: › 14th August, 2005
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