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History of Online-Roleplaying
This is fairly pointless and something that I could be doing in private, but what the hell I figured I'd do it here. I've been meaning to put together a timeline of the history of Orp, as I keep forgetting what has happened and in what order, so by putting it down on digital paper it will peserve the memories of The Spam War, The Aussie Admin Epoc, The Great Domain Change, The Illegal Years and others.
Some of you are old enough to remember and contribute. The rest can just watch and gnash your teeth. ____________________________________________ 2001 December - LeeCHeSSS registers his account 2002 January - Opening of Online-Roleplaying.commodities, LeeCHeSSS and WhoNaN as Team Admin January - 1st 3ebb migration begins January - Eidolon, longest running and flagship game of Orp is Founded April - WhoNAN wins the first annual Coolest Avatar Award July - Orp Goes Legal July - Orp Goes Brown October - Orp Gets Chatroom 1.0 December - Orp switches to Online-Roleplaying.com from Online-Role-Playing.com 2003 Janurary - Orp undergoes a mysterious change April - itches wins the second annual Coolest Avatar Award May - Online-Roleplaying.commodities webmail is opened August? - Cadogan Trahem evolves and begins the Aussie Admin Epoc 2004 January - ORP [doesn't] get pixellated characters Feburary - After a terrible transporter accident, Cadhulk is born. March - LeeCHeSSS reaches 666 posts March - Disabiling signatures in a thread was granted to much celebration March - Chatroom 1.0 is removed after no one used it April - BigRedRod wins the third annual Coolest Avatar Award July - The Cultists move in 2005 Feburary - WoW eats Cadogan March - BigRedRod pulls a sword from an anvil and is proclaimed king April - LeeCHeSSS wins the fourth annual Coolest Avatar Award May - itches gets rid of his godawful signature October - 2nd 3ebb migration begins 2006 March - Orp moves to a dedicated server March - Online-Roleplaying.commodities webmail is removed. April - itches wins the fifth annual Coolest Avatar Award July - Cognitive Yammering was added to the Public Commonness All Stars. July - CyberNations finds Orp October - itches steals some ambrosia from the admin breakroom and becomes a god October - Forum dice are introduced November - The Spamwar begins 2007 January - The Spamwar ends in victory for Team Admin April - Noocytx wins the sixth annual Coolest Avatar Award April - Private threads are invented April - Orp gets Chatroom 2.0 2008 January - The scourge of CyberNations is finally stopped April - Gralhruk wins the seventh annual Coolest Avatar Award October - Spamwar II Begins, leading to the Closure of Registration October - Registration is Reopened with moderation turned on. 2009 Feburary - Spamwar II ends Febuary - Gralhrulk stows away on the HMS Team Admin March - itches takes ownership of Orp. Promises of pixelated characters to battle with are not fulfilled. April - itches wins the eighth annual Coolest Avatar Award April - No new Private Subforums are available November - New private subforums are re-enabled November - 18 hours of posts go missing. Team Admin blames witches. 2010 April - jiffypop wins the ninth annual Coolest Avatar Award March - The Best-Post-Ever is made. September - Orp begins to receive spam advertising Produce. As in, from a farm. November - A 2011 April - red_dr4g0n94 wins the tenth annual Coolest Avatar Award™ in a nailbiting sudden death victory. April - Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus. June - Vikings Raid the server farm Orp is hosted at. After a long day of battles they were repulsed. November - BigRedRod gets his degree and is hereafter known as Doctor BigRedRod 2012 April - While attempting to upgrade the forum software, itches broke the front page. [Spoilers] It was later fixed. April - Tashalar wins the Eleventh Annual Coolest Avatar Award™, in a year of disqualifications and shields. May - A Spoiler tag turns up. Finally. July - After months of borderline unfriendly debate, Team Admin reveal a brand new feature, Grids
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4th of May, 2008, 22:10
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I'm old enough to have forgotten.
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5th of May, 2008, 03:47
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Well this looks like a fun waste of time.
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5th of May, 2008, 03:58
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2006: July - Tashalar joined ORP
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5th of May, 2008, 07:15
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Dramatic reading of a typical post.
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5th of May, 2008, 09:08
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By immigrants no less....
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5th of May, 2008, 12:26
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Updated it a bit. Things I still need to do:
Any other suggestions?
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5th of May, 2008, 14:53
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I think that one of the 3EBB migrations (at least the one I remember being on account of the ezBoard crash) happened in the summer/fall of '05.
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5th of May, 2008, 15:09
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You're right, the original foundation of the site could technically be considered a 3ebb migration too.
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5th of May, 2008, 15:12
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Well you always talk about two for some reason.
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5th of May, 2008, 15:23
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Nice, the Cult gets its own entry. Huzzah!
We are watching you, you know.
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5th of May, 2008, 15:26
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That's alright, we're watching you watch us.
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5th of May, 2008, 21:37
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ORP [doesn't] get pixellated characters!
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5th of May, 2008, 22:22
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Hmm you're right, that should go in. Maybe who won the avatar award each year too.
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5th of May, 2008, 22:44
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Definitely. That's the only yearly event ORP has, so it has to be mentioned.
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In fact it pretty much was. I know I was brought over during one of those, but I think it was mostly because of Second Talon and itches.
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6th of May, 2008, 03:07
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6th of May, 2008, 03:17
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6th of May, 2008, 05:32
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I love that thread like I love my pinkie toe - it's quite useless, but hard to part with for sentimental reasons.
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6th of May, 2008, 06:27
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I joined nearly five years ago!
I feel really old...
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6th of May, 2008, 08:35
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Over 2 years ago... I don't feel AS old....
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6th of May, 2008, 11:24
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See... I feel really... Not old because the latest thing on that list I remember are the dice. And sadly, I only vaguely remember the "spamwar." And that was only because of this poll. Must have been one of my offline times...
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6th of May, 2008, 11:47
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Yes the Spamwar was mostly a continual shadow war that for the first time grew intense enough to spill over into the open where everyone could see it. Even then the average lifespan of Spam was about 30 seconds.
Updated some more. Things still to do
Other suggestions?
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6th of May, 2008, 11:56
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The ezboard crash happened on the 30th/31st of May.
It's likely that the migration occurred over late June/July.
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