Orange Juice (also known as OJ) is a website, known as the self-proclaimed "demoscene information center". It was (and by some, still is) regarded as the central website for demoscene related data about demoparties, demosceners, demogroups and other events.

OJ sports a historical importance: it was the first demoscene-related portal on the Internet, launched 5th April, 1997 by Yes and Chandra. It's name comes from ANSI artist Bisounours / Tiny Toons, who is quoted saying that "it sounds better than Apple Juice".

OJ is a sponsor of Nectarine demoscene web radio, as it runs from the same server.

Features

• Demoscene news
• Demoscene party database - upcoming and past parties, infos and results
• Demoscener profiles (including the infamous undecypherable "favorite tart" field)
• Demogroup listing
• FTP-Search
• Oneliner

Criticism

OJ is often offline due to a server instability which was promised to be taken care of, but was eventually never solved. The site runs on a Windows IIS, which, for some reason, often locks up the whole server so it needs to be rebooted manually.

The OJ main site is also a rather large load on traffic, because its armada of small icons. This has bothered many, so eventually a "lite"-version was created, but it is admittedly unfinished and not officially supported.

External links

• http://www.ojuice.net/
• http://light.ojuice.net/ - a less graphic intensive, but also very unfinished version of the site.

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