Shrine History

[SineSwiper]

http://www.tows.cc/history.html

Okay, this is pretty much all we have. I don't like that. I think we can piece together a lot of this shit. Even if I don't have exact dates, we can still get it down to the month and be set. We have an archive of posts for the MB back from 2001 (like like 2003 for DS, though). Some of you guys probably have AIM logs that last for years. We can even record epic threads that should be marked down for history.

Some example moments:

When Chris had the Shrine
Various moments that the server had problems (or I moved hosts)
The phpBB conversion
Regulars leaving and coming back
The first Halloween Masquerade

EDIT: Yeah, the history page is filled with highly cheesy dialogue. I want to simplify it down to a sentence or two.

[Eric]

Psycho former Admin returning acting crazy and leaving again.
Kali-o in his evil rise to power and Admin powers.

[kali o.]

Psycho former Admin returning acting crazy and leaving again.
Kali-o in his evil rise to power and Admin powers.

You bastard...make sure to note Eric pretending to be his brother for like 6 months

[Julius Seeker]

For Starters:


1. The Alpha and the Omega: The Chrono Trigger era,
2. Invasion of the Zerg: The Starcraft era
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday: Seeker vs. Emo kids throughout the history of the Shrine.
4. The 7 years war: G-Man vs. Sine,
5. By this sign thou shalt conquer: Lox, the Dungeon Master, converts to Christianity
6. The Glorious Revolution: Mental is denied the Shringlish Crown which he demands.
7. Return of the Shadow:Mental attempts to hack the Shrine.

[Eric]

Psycho former Admin returning acting crazy and leaving again.
Kali-o in his evil rise to power and Admin powers.

You bastard...make sure to note Eric pretending to be his brother for like 6 months

Oh snap!

[Lox]

4. The 7 years war: G-Man vs. Sine,
5. By this sign thou shalt conquer: Lox, the Dungeon Master, converts to Christianity

The Dungeon Master? Shouldn't it be PimpDaddy as in PimpDaddy Lox (not Goldie Lox!)

The G-Man vs. Sine stuff has to go in there. That was some classic battlin'.

[Eric]

4. The 7 years war: G-Man vs. Sine,
5. By this sign thou shalt conquer: Lox, the Dungeon Master, converts to Christianity

The Dungeon Master? Shouldn't it be PimpDaddy as in PimpDaddy Lox (not Goldie Lox!)

The G-Man vs. Sine stuff has to go in there. That was some classic battlin'.

Loxy K

[Lox]

Loxy K

Oh yeah......I....forgot that one...........yes......I forgot it.

[SineSwiper]

You all are talking about personal threads and stuff, and I'm talking about the Shrine as a whole. I dunno; I guess they both belong somewhere.

Also, the newer stuff I can search pretty easily, but I'm not sure about the older stuff. Can any of you try to get some dates on this?

[Andrew, Killer Bee]

Sine do you still have the archives available in RPGBoard format? Or is it phpBB or nothin' now?

[SineSwiper]

If I did, I would have merged them. Some of my backups got corrupted a long time ago, so I was never able to retrieve them.

EDIT: Wow, I didn't know that Wayback had any of my site. If only it could get all of the historical data. I at least now have the descriptions of some of the missing on the forums.

[kali o.]

EDIT: Wow, I didn't know that Wayback had any of my site. If only it could get all of the historical data. I at least now have the descriptions of some of the missing on the forums.

It's gonna bother me and drive me insane...not knowing what I said defending Seeker in the banning thread. It was probably gold...Tessian gave me an LoL.

Damn it...

[Julius Seeker]

EDIT: Wow, I didn't know that Wayback had any of my site. If only it could get all of the historical data. I at least now have the descriptions of some of the missing on the forums.

It's gonna bother me and drive me insane...not knowing what I said defending Seeker in the banning thread. It was probably gold...Tessian gave me an LoL.

Damn it...

Awww, you defended me?

[Chris]

EDIT: Wow, I didn't know that Wayback had any of my site. If only it could get all of the historical data. I at least now have the descriptions of some of the missing on the forums.

It's gonna bother me and drive me insane...not knowing what I said defending Seeker in the banning thread. It was probably gold...Tessian gave me an LoL.

Damn it...

Awww, you defended me?

I did too.....in my own special way......we love you cause yer fucking retarded. although damn. it's fucking hard to see back when I was living the dream. happy with a hot gamer girlfriend.......then I see it and suddenly I remember the break up and now I'm sad

[kali o.]

Awww, you defended me?

Half-hearted I'm sure...or at the very least, just because it allowed me to verbally backhand you at the time.

/sigh

We'll never know for sure though...

[M'k'n'zy]

Honestly I think historical events that happened within threads have as much to do in the history as the actual physical development of the shrine. If nothing else it should talk about how the group of became a small, closed community like this. It would also be neat to have a listing of long time members or something, like a member history and when they were around.

[Julius Seeker]

A representation of our glorious past, now lost to the marauding forces of the Vandals.

Daily Stuph
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Music & Movies
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[Eric]

People can not possibly live on gaming alone.

I stopped reading here, you and your falsehoods! YOU SPREAD LIES AND HERESY!

[Julius Seeker]

People can not possibly live on gaming alone.

I stopped reading here, you and your falsehoods! YOU SPREAD LIES AND HERESY!

That was the past, now we know better =P

[Lox]

People can not possibly live on gaming alone.

I stopped reading here, you and your falsehoods! YOU SPREAD LIES AND HERESY!

That was the past, now we know better =P

It's makes me sad, but it's true. IT'S TRUE!!! *sob sob sob*

[Joe]

I was the one who called Lox "Goldie Lox".

I was the one who convinced Slappy and Kabong to buy Subarus.

I made fun of Deadite for being a vegetarian.

I accused Sine of stereotyping just about everyone. Wonder if he still does that.

Okay. I'll return next year. Bye!

[Imakeholesinu]

I was the one who called Lox "Goldie Lox".

I was the one who convinced Slappy and Kabong to buy Subarus.

I made fun of Deadite for being a vegetarian.

I accused Sine of stereotyping just about everyone. Wonder if he still does that.

Okay. I'll return next year. Bye!

You suck.

[Zeus]

I was the one who called Lox "Goldie Lox".

I was the one who convinced Slappy and Kabong to buy Subarus.

I made fun of Deadite for being a vegetarian.

I accused Sine of stereotyping just about everyone. Wonder if he still does that.

Okay. I'll return next year. Bye!

Well then:

- I'm the one who gave G-Man the nickname "Old Man"
- along with Joe, I'm the one who helped with the Ish + Lotus pairing
- I came up with "getting Ished"
- because of me, M'k'n'z'y became a far easier "Big Daddy Mac" :-)

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[Flip]

I got Mental so upset the admins were forced to ban him and his lunacy.

[kali o.]

I got Mental so upset the admins were forced to ban him and his lunacy.

I think it's fair to point out though that I was the primary cause of his eventual breakdown - you were nothing more that the proverbial 'straw'.

I'd also like to say that the "Kali is Hacking!" incident is the funniest moment of drama in the Shrine's history, imo of course.

[Eric]

I was the one who called Lox "Goldie Lox".

I was the one who convinced Slappy and Kabong to buy Subarus.

I made fun of Deadite for being a vegetarian.

I accused Sine of stereotyping just about everyone. Wonder if he still does that.

Okay. I'll return next year. Bye!

I'm hurt that you didn't bring up the time we frantically tried to delete multiple posts and broke the Shrine. Now that was hilarious.

[Lox]

I was the one who called Lox "Goldie Lox".

I was the one who convinced Slappy and Kabong to buy Subarus.

I made fun of Deadite for being a vegetarian.

I accused Sine of stereotyping just about everyone. Wonder if he still does that.

Okay. I'll return next year. Bye!

I'm hurt that you didn't bring up the time we frantically tried to delete multiple posts and broke the Shrine. Now that was hilarious.

Yeah! What's that about, old man! That was good times. I thought we were going to get banned.

[Blotus]

I was the one who convinced Seeker to buy an Xbox

I turned Eric on to Hannah Montana... doujin

I bailed Ish out of jail because sodomy is still illegal in Alabama (probably?)

I won Zeus' first born in a Crazy Taxi high-score contest

I turned Lox Christian

I cured Flip's gambling problem by getting him addicted to meth

I sold Sine the rights to RPGboard

I discovered that Chris is just an alt account of Tessian's for when he's feeling slightly fabulous

I put a bomb in Bovine's lungs that will detonate if he tries to leave Saskatchewan. Enjoy PAX '10, buddy

I never did a 69 on another dude

[Eric]

I never did a 69 on another dude

I call Shenanigans!

[Joe]

I'm hurt that you didn't bring up the time we frantically tried to delete multiple posts and broke the Shrine. Now that was hilarious.

So many memories. But yes, that was beyond funny. Me, you, Lox, Wolfsamurai got stoopid and wrecked the forum. BWAHAHAHA!

We tried to undelete the spam we posted and I think we ended up deleting stuff that was already deleted and made the Shrine crumble.

Then I made some joke about how it probably caused the server to crash and burn Sine's rickety shack down to the ground.

OH! And I was the one who always always made fun of Ish. There was another mod here who didn't like the Sports Forum. There was a mod war and he ended up leaving....and came back as a regular poster.

Remember how everyone was on my case for being pro-marijuana but anti-hard drugs? Then I asked you guys if you'd allow your future kids to do hard drugs and you were all like "No way!"

Turn coats, alla ya!

Then it turned out that Slappy was a junkie. Man....glad he's off that stuff.

[Zeus]

I won Zeus' first born in a Crazy Taxi high-score contest

Man, I remember that! Did you end up beating $57,220 in the original on default settings or was that Crazy Taxi 2?

[Julius Seeker]

Joe, you're a Tolkien fan if I remember correctly? While you were gone, Eric beat the fucking shit out of Peter Jackson. That's why he got his Mexican equivilent to direct the Hobbit.

[Blotus]

I won Zeus' first born in a Crazy Taxi high-score contest

Man, I remember that! Did you end up beating $57,220 in the original on default settings or was that Crazy Taxi 2?

I never did actually beat it. I think the highest I got was 49k. So you can keep your child!

[Zeus]

I won Zeus' first born in a Crazy Taxi high-score contest

Man, I remember that! Did you end up beating $57,220 in the original on default settings or was that Crazy Taxi 2?

I never did actually beat it. I think the highest I got was 49k. So you can keep your child!

Phew. Even though I have an extra, I seriously doubt my wife would take kindly to me owning up to a bet like that :-)

My record in Crazy Taxi 2 was $34k and change. I actually have that one saved on my VMU. The other record I only have my bud as a witness, I actually did it while I had my store open and needed to kill time :-)

[SineSwiper]

Heh, well, this thread when to shit fast.

Anyway, so today, we moved to phpBB3. Still need to get that more complete history written, but I guess I'll need to dig through the archives to get some information on it.

EDIT: Did some research. Here's some notes for my reference:

First known posts (since archive crash):

03 Feb 2001 02:34 pm - Ruminations
05 Feb 2001 08:10 pm - Music and Movies
19 Apr 2001 11:38 pm - Questionaires
19 Apr 2001 02:34 pm - Sports
27 May 2003 10:13 am - Online Gamethought
26 Dec 2000 03:19 pm - Creations
03 Feb 2001 02:31 am - Animetion
03 Feb 2001 10:46 pm - Gamethought
28 Jan 2003 11:33 am - Daily Stuph

Saturday, July 6, 2002 - Wayback Archive of site

Last posts:

08 May 2003 03:37 am - Questionaires (archived on Feb 2005)
08 Oct 2003 02:40 pm - Animetion (archived on Oct 2003)
02 Dec 2002 11:05 am - Creations (archived on Oct 2003)
22 Oct 2003 04:13 am - Online Gamethought (archived on ???)
03 Feb 2005 02:34 am - Ruminations (archived on Feb 2005)
09 May 2005 12:33 am - Sports (archived on ???)



05 Oct 2003
Talk about killing Online GT, Animetion, and Sports
(also ruminating about the decline of the shrine)
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1373
14 Oct 2003 10:22 am
Removed Animetion and Creations
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1397

26 Jan 2005 07:42 am
Installing phpBB2
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2547
After opinions
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8602
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8603
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8621 (Zeus)
User Posting Styles
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8618
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8670

06 Feb 2005 05:06 pm
First buzz about killing some more forums
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8654

18 May 2005 04:23 pm
Down to three forums
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9115
(also has a breakdown of forum divisions)


Oct 2003 - Masquerade (not sure if it was the first one)

AYB joke - sometime in April 1st

EDIT: More stuff:

OGT killed
Oct 30 2003
/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1438


Kali and admin powers
/viewtopic.php?t=13212


Who called it? predictions
/viewtopic.php?t=13039


VPS Move
/viewtopic.php?t=2030
/viewtopic.php?t=2036


Nev leaves
/viewtopic.php?t=12138

12300 - Ronin jumps back
12512 - Shrine headers
12387 - New shrine forum descriptions

12974 - Mully joins
14657 - ManaMan comes back
11887 - More complaints of admin powers
11927 - History of some people
11568 - 10th Anny
9088 - Start date project
8877 - New logo
1754 - IRC channel, for a short time
1636 - Resin comes back, some history of people
1073 - More history
2750 - Nev comes back (2001)

either 1998 or 1999 - Shrine was shutdown for a few months, possibly when Derithian had his temp forum


Viper another user
VicRattlehead

[SineSwiper]

Shrine History

[Flip]

Its too bad you didnt go that extra step and originally create GameFAQs. Lots of money that would bring. Ugh.

[M'k'n'zy]

Dont forget that there was a small time when the shrine was down for a week or so where I hosted a tempoary forum for us, I dont remember exactly when it was though.

[Shellie]

omg, why am I not somewhere in the history! I'm hurt! lol I know I'm not the first girl to post, but I am the most important one!

[Flip]

Haha, i think RHfactor was one of the first girl regulars. We all had our first nerd wood.

[SineSwiper]

More additions. BTW, this will eventually go into a separate (locked) Shrine History forum with a few posts for the different sections.

This update may seem "Mental-centric" as I researched his posts from the archives. I'm going to be including major points of the three admins to the Shrine history, and putting the rest on the member history list. Though, Mental gets the most line items, since he's the most, errr, eccentric. I'll look at Crono and myself later on.

As well as these:

26 Jan 2005 07:42 am
Installing phpBB2
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2547
After opinions
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8602
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8603
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8621 (Zeus)
User Posting Styles
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8618
/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8670



16 Jun 2004 08:00 am
VPS Move
/viewtopic.php?t=2030
/viewtopic.php?t=2036

08 Sep 2008 02:37 pm
Kali and admin powers
/viewtopic.php?t=13212

14 Jul 2008 10:23 pm
Who called it? predictions
/viewtopic.php?t=13039





1754 - IRC channel, for a short time
8877 - New logo
9088 - Start date project
11568 - 10th Anny
11887 - More complaints of admin powers
12387 - New shrine forum descriptions
12512 - Shrine headers

Ronin - 12300 - Ronin jumps back
Resin - 1636 - Resin comes back, some history of people
Mully - 12974 - Mully joins
ManaMan - 14657 - ManaMan comes back
Derithian - leaves - http://www.tows.cc/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 40&start=0
[research] - 11927 - History of some people
[research] - 1073 - More history
Tort - fight between Nev and Tort? - http://www.tows.cc/forum/viewtopic.php?p=89056

Viper another user
VicRattlehead
FireAsh = Red Eye?

[M'k'n'zy]

Yes, FireAsh = RedEye

[SineSwiper]

More updates. I think the Shrine history part is ready. I'll move it over.

[SineSwiper]

New forum created. History is pretty much 99% finished. Still need to do Member Histories at a later date. Notes for that:

08 Sep 2008 02:37 pm
Kali and admin powers (move to Seeker/Kali bios)
/viewtopic.php?t=13212

1754 - IRC channel, for a short time
9088 - Start date project
11887 - More complaints of admin powers
12512 - Shrine headers

Ronin - 12300 - Ronin jumps back
Resin - 1636 - Resin comes back, some history of people
Mully - 12974 - Mully joins
ManaMan - 14657 - ManaMan comes back
Derithian - leaves - http://www.tows.cc/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 40&start=0
[research] - 11927 - History of some people
[research] - 1073 - More history
Tort - fight between Nev and Tort? - http://www.tows.cc/forum/viewtopic.php?p=89056

Viper another user
VicRattlehead
FireAsh = Red Eye?

1 Jul 2002 - Seeker banned (found in Wayback)

[KluYa]

Haha, i think RHfactor was one of the first girl regulars

Or as Drex liked to call her... "ride all night Rachel". lol

[SineSwiper]

Kinky.