This Samurai Pizza Cats fan page says it was last modified on August 18, 1996. That date has now spent far longer being old than the page spent being current.
Visit the Samurai Pizza Cats fan page
The site identifies itself as the first page on the Pizza Cats and credits Patrick Atoon. It is a compact handmade guide to the English-language cartoon and its Japanese source, Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, built at a time when simply finding background information about an imported or localized anime series could require another fan to type it out for you.
The navigation covers the premise, recurring characters, the Cat Ninden, episode information, opening and closing themes, a fan-club oath, “Pizza Cat-isms,” credits and acknowledgments. There is even a Dutch version.
The episode guide is especially revealing. It describes 48 episodes and openly notes gaps where descriptions were still needed. Its numbering follows Canadian broadcast order rather than pretending there was one universally obvious sequence.
That is the sort of messy detail fan sites preserved well. Television syndication, regional broadcasts and localization often produced conflicting episode orders long before streaming services presented one clean list.
Before fandom became a database
A page like this did not have a wiki engine underneath it. The webmaster decided what newcomers needed to know, typed character descriptions, organized episodes, transcribed songs and invited other fans to fill missing information.
Its explanation of the series also preserves terminology from the period. The English title sits beside Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, Little Tokyo and the show’s original character framework. Those names now provide exactly the kind of long-tail search surface that disappears when old fan pages are reduced to a generic sentence saying “this was an anime from the 1990s.”
The page’s age is visible not because somebody recreated a retro theme, but because nobody replaced the original assumptions. It was made for people who needed an introduction to the show, and then it simply stayed online.
That makes it a good specimen from CacheRat’s larger 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list. Fan pages often preserve the practical history around media—broadcast order, terminology, early community knowledge and incomplete contemporary understanding—not just the media itself.
There are slicker ways to research Samurai Pizza Cats now.
There are not many cleaner ways to see what researching it on the Web looked like in 1996.