One Small Step for Jodie, One Long Run for Jane Lane

As Jodie Landon reminds us, 41 years ago the Eagle landed on the Moon. As Daria and Jane remind us, "See Jane Run" premiered on MTV 12 years ago. An important day in history, indeed. Today turns out to be critically important in one fanfic, as you will see. Yesterday will be an important day 17 years in the future according to another fanfic, as you will see.

The best part of "See Jane Run" was, of course, seeing Jane. Our Heroine (Jane) was magnificent, but her sidekick Daria was a wet blanket with her constant whining and acting sorry for herself and complaining about Jane doing something great. What heights could Jane have achieved had Daria not been such a pain in the butt? Alas, we will never know.

However, to commemorate the anniversary of "See Jane Run," you can download a PC screensaver that shows Jane running, saved from an MTV website by the WayBack Machine at Archive.org. Click on the link (an .exe file), save it, run it, be amazed. I adore this. The file (called "Run, Jane, Run" as a screensaver) was posted online about 10 years ago and works perfectly, with sun and moon and stars and everything! Jane sure can run a long time.

Moar l8r.

Had to show you this....

Remember that Jane Lane screensaver I wrote about? It shows Jane running night and day, with the sky behind her changing as she runs on and on. There are meteors and stars and the sun and moon and clouds and blue-eyed Jane.


Awesome. You gotta try this.


LATE NOTE: If you want to try to download some of these screensavers for yourself (and some of them might work, but you will have to try them on your own), then go to this archived Downloadables page from March 2000 (MTV Daria site). Right click with your mouse when the cursor is over one of the download links, then click "Save Link As..." and put whatever downloads into one of your folders. If a download wasn't saved, the thing saved will come up as a duplicate of the webpage, meaning there was nothing there to grab. Quinn's links are invisibly there even if the text box isn't, so run the mouse over that space and located the links that way. Both PC and Mac links exist, with or without music. I can't say what was saved and what wasn't. Good luck. (I think Daria's screensaver, without music, was saved.)

Guess What I Dragged Out of the WayBack Machine?

You want a Jane Lane screensaver? It's yours, at the link below. I've already loaded it on my PC-type computer and tested it. It works. No viruses. No trojans. No bugs. Just pure Jane excellence.

See Jane run! Go, Jane, go!

http://www.theangstguy.com/fanimation/jane_ns.exe

The EXE program was somehow saved intact by the WayBack Machine from an MTV Daria site c. 2000. I can't believe it. This is too incredible to keep to myself. I also got the Quinn screensaver (haven't tried it yet), but the Daria one was not recoverable. Alas. But, hey, here's JANEY!!!