Free Spirits (Kasper)
- This article is about the web site by Kasper. For other uses, see Free Spirits (disambiguation).
Free Spirits was a pioneering boylove web site created by Kasper in 1995. The site featured essays, a picture gallery, a collections of tasteful photography, as well as links to other boylove related sites. It was one of a handful of sites in the early World Wide Web that promoted a positive view of boylove. One of the early problems with Kasper's Free Spirits was that the web host (service provider) gave websites a "hit limit", once that limit was reached the site would then be locked out until the next day. As the site grew in popularity, it began to reach this limit earlier and earlier in the day.
On 29 December 1995, Kasper created an experimental message board on his site. The board, called BoyChat, was an immediate success. The logo read, "BoyChat, discussion of boys and what wondrous creatures they are". He soon passed the fledgling board on to Jongen for hosting elsewhere as BoyChat greatly exasperated the problem with the hit count limit. Because of BoyChat's popularity, the site would frequently exceed the limit and be locked out within hours and remain locked out until the next day. Kasper's Free Spirits continued to operate until August 1996 but BoyChat is still immensely popular today. The boylover organization Free Spirits was named in honor of Kasper's innovative efforts.
