Chruser
2006-01-14, 08:52 PM
That's right guys and gals, Zelaron was registered on the 14th of January back in 2002, so we just passed the 4 year mark!
We've outlived lots of hardships, including numerous DDoS attacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack), getting kicked off the servers of web hosts (one of which removed us from their services when we had 131 users online at one particular time; our new record is 540), database errors, legal threats, rumors that we leaked the Doom 3 alpha (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7055) supposedly aggravating John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack) and so many more things which I don't recall right now.
I apologize for not posting this announcement a little earlier today, but I'm really happy and slightly amazed that we're still around after so many years. One of the initial reasons why I started Zelaron was because I wanted to see a forum that wouldn't just disappear from the reach of its dedicated members. So many other forums and communities I actively took part in prior to 2002 would permanently disappear for monetary or personal reasons of the owners/staff. One very large forum I really liked at the time got hacked, and had not done a single database backup for almost a whole year. It wasn't the first time it had happened to that community, either.
So yeah, here we are, four years later; still with a lot of active, creative users who have been around since the first year, and so many wonderful newcomers who have already out-posted me in only a third of the time it took me to get my 7600-something post count. No, I didn't cheat by stacking a horde of posts in the trashcan, promise. ;)
I hope you all have enjoyed the ride so far.
A toast to our future 5th anniversary!
Edit: This totally brings back old memories. :)
http://www.zelaron.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6405
We've outlived lots of hardships, including numerous DDoS attacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack), getting kicked off the servers of web hosts (one of which removed us from their services when we had 131 users online at one particular time; our new record is 540), database errors, legal threats, rumors that we leaked the Doom 3 alpha (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7055) supposedly aggravating John Carmack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack) and so many more things which I don't recall right now.
I apologize for not posting this announcement a little earlier today, but I'm really happy and slightly amazed that we're still around after so many years. One of the initial reasons why I started Zelaron was because I wanted to see a forum that wouldn't just disappear from the reach of its dedicated members. So many other forums and communities I actively took part in prior to 2002 would permanently disappear for monetary or personal reasons of the owners/staff. One very large forum I really liked at the time got hacked, and had not done a single database backup for almost a whole year. It wasn't the first time it had happened to that community, either.
So yeah, here we are, four years later; still with a lot of active, creative users who have been around since the first year, and so many wonderful newcomers who have already out-posted me in only a third of the time it took me to get my 7600-something post count. No, I didn't cheat by stacking a horde of posts in the trashcan, promise. ;)
I hope you all have enjoyed the ride so far.
A toast to our future 5th anniversary!
Edit: This totally brings back old memories. :)
http://www.zelaron.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6405