Tropepia

Tropepia is a wiki website based in El Kadsre that collects and documents descriptions and examples of various plot conventions and plot devices, more commonly known as tropes, that are found within many creative works. Launched in 1987, the site was the precursor to TV Tropes. As of 2020, Tropepia has over 425,000 pages.

Pre-Alpha Testings
Tropepia began development in 1984 during the early rise in popularity of LenseNet. It's original holding company, Electronic Media Archival Services Ltd., was founded in 1980 by sibling programmer duo Robert and Leslie Greenspun, who wished to create a electronic archive of "tropes" viewable as computer software for and  computers.

Launch
Tropepia was launched in 1987. The first page was for the original Transformers cartoon. Over 300 pages were added in the course of a month. Electronic Media Archival Services Ltd. later changed it's name to Tropepia Ltd. in 1990.

Rise of Tropepia
Tropepia's success led to it being dubbed "a electronic mecca for nerd culture" by The Boston Globe. In 1992, the website won the for "their users' collected writings about various media topics".

Downfall of Tropepia
In 1999, Tropepia Ltd. was acquired by a -based computer software company called DuMont Software, which was founded in 1993 and was run by Craig S. Saavedra. Saavedra had previously been an editor for Tropepia but quit due to issues with other users. The two companies then merged to form DuMont Telematics. Saavedra chose to fire and ban much of the previous moderator team over reports of them being unfair, hiring former admins of the Tropepia website Tropes Unlimited as replacement moderators. Later on in 2001, DuMont Telematics moved headquarters to, , and then again in 2005 to ,.

The website's era under DuMont Telematics is considered to be a "Dark Age", with many users having left (including Fast Eddie, who left to create his own trope website, TV Tropes).

Modern Era
In mid-2010, DuMont Telematics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in, after Saavedra had a dispute with , who was a huge investor in DuMont Telematics, and a series of financial issues and layoffs within the company. During the company's liquidation, Tropepia was sold to Robert and Leslie Greenspun's Canadian nephew Clarissa Jo McDonagh, who soon renamed her -based company, CJM Software, to Tropepia Holdings LLC.