For those of you who haven't been with us long, I'm going to sum up (more or less) the way the network came into existence. I'll probably add to this later and go more in-depth. Anyone who remembers shit, feel free to drop me an e-mail.

Basically, a long long time ago, in a galaxy far away, when you could find ISO's in less than 192 rar chunks, which then had 7 zips each inside of them, containing 6 txt files for 4 different release groups next to a 5k file you actually wanted, a few people stumbled across Visual Basic(s). <-- HAHAHAHAHA GET IT? Ok. Right.... my bad. Ok so there we were on AOL. Me (Syber), chad, judge, and a buttload of other people who may not be less important, but don't pay for this network, and as such don't get their names mentioned. We're sitting there in a chat room and shit, and we're fucking owning it up saucy. KnK was there, and some other AO-Famous guys. Then fucking chad right...this guy...let me tell you.... man. What a story. Then there was this other time he wrote this program. That was tight too.

So now let's skip ahead to the problems. As we were sitting on AOL owning shit up. People started squeezing our nuts too hard, and causing problems. So we moved rooms for a while. Jumping around trying to avoid the problems. For those of you who aren't familiar with the AO-Environment, you basically have no control over who's in the chatroom, and what they're doing. It became obvious to us that we needed to find a way to control some shit. Enter Internet Relay Chat. So I forget exactly how we got on there, but we were dicking around on some network one way or another. And that shit was the mad note. I'm a little hazy on the exact order of the networks we were on, but more or less, here's a brief list and the reason we left:

So there we are... on fucking Observers right... and chad fucking tears into one of the gay ones, which doesn't narrow it down much. Because they were all fucking hypocritical and shit. And meanwhile I was like "YEAH! What he said". And then we fucking bounced. So we went to openprojects, which was fine for the time being. But by this point, we were fucking nailing down like... 40 users and shit. And me, chad and judge got to talking, and were like "yeah Observers is gay." Gay all day. Then we went to sleep. Then the next day, we were all like "Fuck those guys." And then we went to sleep again. This continued for a couple of weeks. Finally I was like... "FUCK THIS". But since I didn't have any ideas, I just asked chad what he wanted to do, and he said get our own network. So we did. So we got some shells, downloaded some sorry pieces of programming linux users call IRCd's and cranked those bitches up.

Needless to say, that shit didn't work. Took me a long ass time, and quite a bit of help to get that shit to work. Finally we got that all working, and never looked back. Except once I looked back to take a channel from Otherside. Because we were far more pimptacular than their wack ass scared-of-their-shell-stability-due-to-some-lame-ass-user-admins.

Here I'll insert a horizontal rule, because I'm taking a break.

As I was saying... there I was...in the middle of kicking ass, when BAM. Nothing happens. So to this day, I'm still kicking ass like I invented cheeks my damn self. That was a year ago today. In that year, we switched our IRCd a couple times, ironed out some problems, and caused plenty more. As far as I'm concerned, we accomplished our goal. In all seriousness, I'm grateful for the fucking kick ass people I've met and made friends with in the process. We have a channel on a network, in total control. We don't put up with bullshit, because we've been through too much of it already. All you mother fuckers know who you are, on both sides of the fence, and I look forward to plenty more years of this shit.