Back in the days before instant video or instant results before people seemed to take everything for granted, visiting a fansite in the "Wild West" eras of the Internet truly was an exciting time to first learn and contact with fans about a various subject, and most importantly, for "The Price Is Right". It was how I learned about the early history of the show, from the Culllen Years, Johnny Olsen, retired games, old sets, memorable moments I missed while I was in school, and much more. Contribution truly felt much more worthwhile to a subject, even if it wasn't current events which is why forums like these still exist today. Here are two that I have in mind:
"Here It Comes":
Better known for The Game $how Page, Chris Lambert Price site provided a nice list of stats, rules, bloopers, foreign versions, a list of pricing games, as well as a FAQ that's still found on ATHS. Launching in late 1994 (two years before I accessed the Internet for the first time), this was the first ever website ever devoted to The Price Is Right, even predating CBS.com's own page to the show. It closed down in the mid-2000s. Still, it consists of nuggets like the creators of some of the pricing games, something that the G-R FAQ doesn't provide under its Pricing Games section for some of the games provided. For example, Steve Ryan, perhaps best known for the rebuses on Concentration, created Now... or Then.
"The Fabulous 60-Minute Price Is Right Site"
A year after playing Plinko in 1997, Tony Harrison's TPIR site was a frequent place for me personally learning about the show, especially while watching the GSN reruns and having a better understanding of the show's earlier years to fully understand how the show evolved to wear it was. It's home to fan-made lyrics to the classic "Nothing But Furniture" cue, Splendido, as well as a set of contestants that will be familiar with to many Barker era fans. And that "Game Show Web Ring" will surely make classic Web fans nostalgic when you never knew what site would come up next...
https://web.archive.org/web/20020406101822/www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/7880/TPiR.htmlAs the early, pre-Web 2.0 days of the Internet become a distant memory, we should all understand where so much of what shapes newer fansites come from, and I truly never had more fun understanding my favorite game show like I ever had without these early gems. I'm sure there's many other classic Price websites out there as well to open a window to a more innocent time online.
