Urbexing On The Net: Starting Off With A Bang On heartfall.com!

Welcome to the blog everybody!

For the first post, we're starting off with a real gem of a website. What you see below is the wonderful place known as heartfall.com. This website is many things, including a webhosting and site design service, an ActiveWorlds resource (for avatars and world hosting), a graphic design gallery (of which I have used one of their free backgrounds), and a film production studio. It's truly a mecca of early internet content.

As you might be able to see in the screenshots below (just of the pages directly accessible through the homepage, trust me there's many more pages), Heartfall is a combination of every type of web 1.0 website, from the competently laid-out but still tacky sites to the "my first webpage" sites (no offense), and I love it.

Below is a run-down of all the main pages you'll find:

The Design Studio: Where you can pay for their hosting or design skills for your website (though you have to horizontally scroll for part of the page). I wonder it it still works.

3D Designs And Environments: Here they host images created in a 3D modeling program, avatars for ActiveWorlds (which you need to pay for), links to various 3D resources (also ActiveWorlds-related), and even a 3D ocean screensaver (which seems to still work). The link to download the screensaver on the website itself it broken, but here's an archive from another download link used by Heartfall at one point: oceanview.zip

Film Production: Here's where the age of the website truly becomes apparent. Heartfall has apparently produced what seems to be an informational series called "What If...?", a series called "Escape With Ease" (detailing martial arts techniques), and another series of martial arts videos by Jiu Joe Jitsu. I tried to order one of the videos and it sent me to a webpage I was supposed to copy, print out, and then mail to Heartfall. Like I said, it's truly here where the website starts to show how old it is. I wonder if I can still buy it.

ActiveWorlds Hosting Services: Along with website hosting, Heartfall seems to also have hosting for ActiveWorlds... uh- worlds, I guess. Apparently it's also pretty pricey.

Object Yard: This seemed to be a website owned by Heartfall which was their main storefront for ActiveWorlds assets. It's since shuttered (according to the Internet Archive that happened around December 2011 to early 2012). There was some free stuff too, some of which has been archived and you can still download by going to the page on the Internet Archive.

Wildlife Spirits: A website hosting images of animal and/or nature with a website that was designed and being hosted by Heartfall. The website itself isn't that bad, although it's design is outdated and some of it's features are broken, it's still a cool place for pictures of wild animals. Unlike Object Yard, Wildlife Spirits seems to have been created independently of Heartfall, but the original owner paid Heartfall for... basically everything else (at the bottom of the "Credits" page it says the site was "designed & hosted by heartfall.com", so who knows if Heartfall owns it or not). Although, I didn't look into it that much, so maybe some connection I'm missing.

The Site Map: From what I can tell the site map has existed since at least 2001 but was never finished.

The Contact Page: Just contact information about the website. You could try emailing I guess but who knows if anybody still checks the info email. Hell, who knows if they even still exist as a company, let alone still have the address listed. Guess there's one way to find out, though. Maybe it's my ticket to getting some of those videos.

Free Stuff: And finally, we're at the last link listed on the main page. This is a link directory for all the free goodies you can download from their website.

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