^ ayumi.primenova.com divine ayu is the legendary website! it was active just a couple of years ago so I remember it very well. I think it was the best ayu's fan-site on the entire internet. I remember the
old layout with Hanabi pics
I also loved hamazaki.net/x/ (or misstokyo.tk)
I think
these layouts look soooooo cool even now. I loved her wallpapers (
1,
2,
3 and etc) and quizzes! By the way,
this was the first pic of ayu I saw. It was the morning of June 18, 2002. I saw the pic of this quiz result on a diary of my internet friend. I fall in love immediately and I thought like I had to know who she was. I first thought she was Miss Tokyo or some model because the link took me to misstokyo.tk website. then I learned that it was a photo of a singer ayumi hamasaki and this is how my story with ayu began. Then I tried to search for her songs but that time I had dial-up internet so I couldn't download a whole song. But I managed to download Hanabi TU-KA CM at Divine Ayu's website (I guess it was the geocities website back then) and it was magical to see Ayu moving and singing for the first time in my life. Then I managed to download .wma of evolution song (it was 800kb I guess) and it blew my 11-year-old mind! ohhh sweet memories!
Next year I'll celebrate my 20th ayu anniversary. Oh Angela from Jakarta, you changed my life actually
it's amazing how we can look through all these dead websites... feels like touch to another side