The Reluctant End Of An Era: Universe Box And The UB Archives

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Universe Box, a podcast network started by me (Bill Meeks) and my wife (Anne Marie) nearly six years ago, shut down, for the most part, two years ago. I’m cooking up some new ideas, which I hope to share towards the end of the year, but it was important to both of us to preserve all the special memories we created with your help over the years. We still get a surprising amount of downloads across all of the shows, so we wanted to keep everything around for you forever. Hence, the Universe Box archives.

I’ve assembled every podcast we ever created under the Universe Box brand, as well as a few early attempts and extras. Each show has it’s entire feed preserved and searchable on most podcast platforms, as well as video playlist on YouTube for our live streams and backups on Archive.org. It’s our little present to everybody who supported us over the years. Thanks, and enjoy!

Old Wide Web

To know where the Internet is going you have to know where it’s been. Every episode we’ll examine the sites, terms, and personalities that have defined the online world. Strap on your Chrono-Belts, time cadets. It’s time to take a trip… to the Old Wide Web!

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Archive.org

Greetings from Storybrooke

Join Bill Meeks, Anne Marie DeSimone, then eventually Bobby Hawke, Liz Plascencia, and Tony Hooper as they discuss new episodes, news, and theories about the ABC series Once Upon A Time.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Archive.org | YouTube Playlist

Greeting From Wonderland

Join Bill Meeks, Anne Marie DeSimone, and a new guest every week as they discuss new episodes, news, and theories about the ABC series the Once Upon A Time spinoff Once Upon A Time in Wonderland.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts (NEED LINK)

Greetings From Storybrooke – Once Upon A Time Commentaries

Join Bill Meeks and Anne Marie DeSimone as they talk over our favorite show Once Upon A Time. Don’t worry. We’ll help you sync up.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts

Legends of Gotham

Join Bill Meeks, Anne Marie DeSimone, then eventually Bobby Hawke, Liz Plascencia, and Tony Hooper as they discuss new episodes, news, and theories about the ABC series Once Upon A Time.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Archive.org | YouTube Playlist

Legends of Gotham Commentaries

Join Bill Meeks and Anne Marie DeSimone as they talk over our favorite show Gotham. Don’t worry. We’ll help you sync up.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts (NEED LINK)

Universe Box

The classic Universe Box podcast. Stories set to a theme. Bill Meeks and Anne Marie DeSimone open up the universe box to discuss shows, movies, songs, and listener stories all based around that week’s theme. Universe Box. Remember to think outside.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Archive.org | YouTube Playlist

Universe Box News

Join Bill Meeks and Anne Marie DeSimone as they bring you the latest in pop culture entertainment news. From books to Broadway to TV and video games, they’ll tell you what’s inside the Universe Box.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Archive.org | YouTube Playlist

We’re So Lost

Join Bill Meeks and Anne Marie DeSimone as they bring you the latest in pop culture entertainment news. From books to Broadway to TV and video games, they’ll tell you what’s inside the Universe Box.

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Archive.org | YouTube Playlist

Hey You, What’s Up?

Bill Meeks talks to neat people for exactly 12 minutes. No more, no less. He will hang up on you. Topics including life, love, geek culture, technology, and society.

Archive.org | YouTube Playlist

Dogboy Adventures

A podcast about the superhero book series by Bill Meeks Dogboy, aka Bronson Black, is Colta City’s 13-year-old superhero. In Dogboy Adventures he solves crimes, fights bad guys, and searches for the answers behind his strange powers. Written by Bill Meeks (billmeeks.com).

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Archive.org

Disney Passholder Project

Join Bill Meeks and Anne Marie DeSimone for their “Disney Year,” with annual passes to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.

Archive.org | YouTube Playlist

Bill Meeks @ Dragon Con

Bill Meeks talks to experts as he preps for his first Dragon*Con. No. Not Dragon Con. It had an asterisk in 2015.

Archive.org

From Anne Marie and myself, we wish all of our storytellers the best. Stay tuned over at my website (BillMeeks.com) for what comes next.

R.I.P. Meeks Mixed Media?!?!?!?

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Farewell, old friend.

Everything comes to an end eventually. I started Meeks Mixed Media back in 2008 as my “shingle” to operate under doing web design and video work. Six years went by and now I have a full time day job. So what to do with Meeks Mixed Media?

After two years of thinking about this I’ve decided to kill it. Watch the video above for more info on that (and what comes next). In the next few weeks this site will be moved over to billmeeks.com and function as my personal blog. For my videos and other creative work check out Universe Box in 2015.

 

My First Website

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I first learned HTML back in the 90’s. I wanted to use it to build a site for my ZZT “game company” Ultraware, but I didn’t think I was ready. For a test run I decided to make a site about Pinky and The Brain. There were a lot of fan sites around but I went a different route. I decided to create a “conspiracy” site that suggested big pop culture events (shows, movies, etc.) were all attempts by the mousy duo to take over the world.

It pretty much sucks. I know it. But you can see little bits of who I am now in there somewhere. I realized Tripod was taking down old site so I decided to put it here for posterity. The original site lived at braindom.tripod.com. It might still be there.

And here’s the weird Baby Sun animation (complete with watermark):

I’ve made a bunch of websites since then. Some good, most bad, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart. And keep me humble.

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