Maiahi.net

**Maiahi.net** (often written in all lowercase as **maiahi.net**) is a website coded by web designers and recent college graduates Jennifer Nguyen and Noah Eisler. It is a mixture of a Bulletin Board System (a precursor to the modern internet), a traditional forum, and a blogging service (think Tumblr)

## History

The site was created during the 1995-1996 Academic Year, shortly after Jennifer and Noah graduated from the University of Brooklyn. It was heavily frequented by their friend group and few others before becoming somewhat mainstream roughly around 2002, two years after the site received an update. Said update introduced the blogging capabilities the site would become known for, as well as giving it a graphical overhaul.

In 2009 it received yet another update, this one simply changed a few quality-of-life features and gave the UI minor graphical changes. As of 2018, it is still in existence and has a decently large userbase.

## Demographics

As of 2010, Maiahi.net had a userbase of 2.5 million. Most of these users were based in the northeastern United States (defined as the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) with 0.9 million users, followed by the southwestern United States (defined as the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and Oklahoma) with 0.6 million, and western Canada (defined as the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward's Island) with 0.4 million. These three locations all have a larger total userbase than the rest of North and South America combined.
Outside of the Americas, Maiahi.net has far fewer users, with only a couple thousand based in Europe, 900 or so based in Asia, and virtually no known users in Africa or Oceania.

## Notable Users

Users are addressed by their handle first, followed by their real name in parentheses and why they are noteworthy.

* Jennifer (Jennifer Nguyen), Admin and Co-Founder of Maiahi.net
* Webguy1967 (Noah Eisler), Admin and Co-Founder of Maiahi.net
* kristals (Kris Meyers), one of the first users of the blogging feature, moderator from 1996-1999
* Naporeon-Douri\_19 (Setsuko Asahina), used the site to advertise her book series
* MultiocularSeraphim (unknown, possibly Julia Dyson), volunteered as a moderator from 1997-2005, one of the most active moderators in the site's history
* Sk8r\_Grrl (Tanya Lang), volunteered as a moderator from 1998-2004, one of the most well-respected mods in the site's history
* tomikahere (Tomika Hammond), created The Strangeness Club's blog on the site, one of the most well-known blogs at the time, volunteered as a moderator from 2005-2014
* Iraka (Akari Yoneyama), volunteered as a moderator from 2002-2014
* TehR33lRoxyRoss (Roxy Ross), musician whose blog propelled her music career and provided a lot of insight on the three "lost" seasons of ~~DR4M4Land~~.

## Trivia

* The site might have gotten its name from The Mystery of Maiahi, an amateur film that Jennifer directed two years before the first version of the site was released.
* The site does not actually exist, and clicking on the site's URL simply directs to an error message.