This interview was more than two months in the making! But I’m glad that Christopher “Topher” De Leon (no, not that Christopher De Leon!) found time to answer my questions about his site, TristanCafe. TristanCafe is an extremely popular (Alexa Rank: 11,281) forum-based community that serves as second home for many Filipino teenagers and students where they can talk just about anything under the sun. As Topher puts it, his site is the “tambayan ng mga walang magawa sa buhay” (rough translation: hangout for people bumming around).

Alleba Blog: How and when did TristanCafe begin?

TristanCafe: The TristanCafe.com domain started on September 22, 2002. But we actually started the website even before that, as a simple homepage in Geocities. It was initially just a personal site, sort of like an online venue where we can share our ideas and just try out things and have fun. A creative outlet.
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You might find this interesting. I read about it here but didn’t really see proof it until today.

Screenshot sample after the jump.
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