A Php-built Simpsons fan page first created by a 14-year-old in 2004 is back online after more than a decade of inactivity — Krustofski.com never should have trusted those Krusty-brand servers.

It may surprise some Simpsons fans and the terminally online alike that, despite the show’s historic longevity, The Simpsons is not, in fact, older than the internet. By the time The Simpsons premiered in December 1989, computer-wielding university students had already established international connections on the rudimentary early networks, and numerous online chatrooms already existed where the technologically advanced could argue about pop culture like children in a cyber schoolyard. But once The Simpsons erupted into the zeitgeist, it became clear that the internet would be forever changed and defined by Simpsons superfans spreading lore and endlessly quoting their favorite episodes through websites like the all-important Simpsons Archive, which still stands to this day.

Another such website came from an upstart coder,...