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Originally published: 2001-08-29

Original publication timestamp: 29 August 2001 at 12:42 pm

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## [AtomShockwave.com reforms as two separate websites](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2001/08/atomshockwavecom-reforms-as-two-separate-websites/)

The troubled merger that created AtomShockwave.com relaunched last week, returning to separate websites [AtomFilms.com](http://atomfilms.com/) and [Shockwave.com](http://shockwave.com/).

The sites have been overhauled and made ‘searchable’. Their revised navigation is a distinct improvement upon the bloated muddle that was the AtomShockwave site, but persistence is still needed to discover the smattering of innovative and experimental work that lurks beneath the interface.

The move hopes to quell rumours that the company is about to join the long list of dot.com disasters. Nonetheless, the corporate source of some 70% of AtomShockwave’s [revenue stream](http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=search&range=all&search=atomshockwave+revenue+stream&newsitem_no=5507) is a salutary reflection upon initial models of the internet as an alternative film distribution channel.

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