Back in July, the world's Neopets nearly got sent to a farm upstate. The edutainment company that maintained the 24-year-old virtual pets webgame was shuttered by its owner, NetDragon, and all the Kortbats and Wockys and Blumaroos might've gone with it if a management buyout hadn't kept the site alive.
Now, for the first time in almost two decades, Neopets is independent again, and its new overseers hope it can climb back up the internet hierarchy—at its peak in 2005, Neopets had over 35 million monthly active users.
