Neoturbine Timeline

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An attempt at coming up with a bunch of accepted facts about Neoturbine. Please help fill in the details... Remember this is a wiki; anyone can edit it! For ideas on what to add please see the bottom of this page.

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[edit] Timeline

[edit] 2002

  • Neoturbine formed at Lincoln Jr. High School in Skokie, IL.
  • Original Members DimaV and Sargas (joe)
  • Hosted by simgames, at neoturbine.gaming-fusion.net
  • sahal created a logo (never used) that used a type of recycling sign for the "o" in Neoturbine to signify a turbine (or something)
  • SteveB hosted us at neoturbine.gaming-fusion.simgames.net
  • SteveB met trevorj through #gentoo @ freenode
  • trevorj & SteveB create #gentoo-n00b @ freenode
  • SteveB started an ircd on a home server
  • trevorj started an ircd on frylock.trevorj.com based out of his home

[edit] 2003

The original "N" logo.
The original "N" logo.
  • First link was formed - SteveB & trevorj realize they can link their IRC servers. And do.
    • SteveB starts running blackhawk.irc.neoturbine.net
  • IRC services deplooooyed.
  • July 27th neoturbine.net was registered.
  • rickb stumbles into #neoturbine from english class with trevorj.

[edit] 2004

  • echoline makes a grand entrance.
  • blindsight sees "advertisement" in the topic of #torrent on dal.net and joins
  • blindsight starts running blind.irc.neoturbine.net
  • Dec 08th BuyDomains.com yanks trevorj.com out of trevorj's tight grasp, trevorj calls and finds out they want $10,000. For a PERSONAL DOMAIN. trevorj says fuck that.
  • trevorj gets a free subdomain till he could come up with $10 that wouldn't be spent on droogs entertainment.
  • Ohenry reports SteveB's server to his ISP, resulting in the first dns switch (from SteveB to Sargas) and Ohhenry's permanent "fuck you" response in the channel.

[edit] 2005

  • After a hard drive crash we decided that we only wish to run IRC servers. Our website's content is "So long, and thanks for all the fish".
  • Sargas's Set server (300mhz cyrus machine) hosts the main website after death of Osiris
  • Rickb starts hosting an actual IRCd.
  • June - Vitk, DimaV, joe, SteveB, Cosmonaut, and friends go to a forest preserve in Wheeling, IL to have a BBQ without much of a real plan - get confronted by The Man for being there after hours (and starting a fire), thus having the 1st NeoCon
  • Mid-2005 website was an underconstruction "Neoturbine Web Development Team"
  • By Late 2005, website becomes "Neoturbine Relay Chat," containing a random assortment of our pictures, birthday counters, periodically updated server status, all copyrighted by echoline's dog under a creative commons license

[edit] 2006

neoturbine.net circa 2006
neoturbine.net circa 2006
  • June - Some of the participants of the BBQ the year before decide to have at it again, this time with a plan and more friends. The event is still not known as NeoCon but now becomes a tradition.
  • Website shows glimpses of channel activity, including last words spoken and everyone's online status using lucy's logs.

[edit] 2007

  • NeoCon 2007
    • Jeff and trevorj came from Ohio to Chicago to "celebrate"
    • Sahal makes a pirate flag
    • The event is officially known as NeoCon
    • Total attendance count is at about 26 people
  • RickB came at a later date. We showed him around Chicago.
  • SteveB came to Chicago at a different date.
  • Another half-assed version of the website is made under codename "Seti" and is deemed to be v5

[edit] 2008

  • NeoCon 2008
    • echoline, linolium, eric, trevorj, RickB came to Chicago
    • DimaV designed and had t-shirts printed
    • Total attendance count is at around 35 people
    • A CakePHP-based website is made to "facilitate" invites to the Con
  • Sargas's Set server dies with a catastrophic hard drive crash
    • Steve's Galatea temporarily takes up web service before changing to rickb's server
    • Galatea continues to run mail services
  • "Vayu" server in sargas's room goes operational
  • lucy is reincarnated

[edit] 2009

  • WinterCon 2009 (January)
    • trevorj, travisj, and trevorj's girlfriend come to Chicago, IL
    • trevorj, travisj, trevorjaygf go to Justice concert with Dima!
    • DimaV, sargas, meth, sahal, vitk, and others "party" at DimaV's Frat
  • January 15 - RickB upgrades the server from Fedora Core 6 to Ubuntu Server Edition and upgrades the RAM and HDD space; but fails to completely restore everything (ahem, anything) properly, Stiv2k comes in to the rescue.
    • Causing mass panic/irritation/swearing, even though Stiv2k agreed to take point on the upgrade / transition.
  • February 3 - IRC attack from about 800 randomly named clones, all from random IP addresess, at 11:19 AM EST; owner was someone with nick "MaSterS". Eric was there to initiate DEFCON, but also managed to get bombarded with 800 PMs. Attacker took them all out after about 5 minutes.
  • June 5 - First IPv6 server link was created on the IRC network between RickB (irc.rickb.net) and Eric's (eric.neoturbine.net) servers using Hurricane Electric's TunnelBroker.net service. Client connectivity via IPv6 was also implemented on both servers.
  • July 30 - A new IRC channel, #anime, was created due to a random group of people roaming from server to server without a permanent home. They settled on our network since they're friends with echoline and Stars.
  • Mail - After years of providing our own servers for @neoturbine.net addresses, the service is switched on Steve's complaints of spam to Google Apps
  • September - Sahal begins running a server, kropotkin.computersforpeace.net with IPv6 connectivity; linked to trevorj's beastlyfingers
  • October - Neoturbine HA project begun! The IRC network is transformed into a mesh topology rather than single hubs.

[edit] Todo

  • when a particular member joined (and left)
    • maybe even when people changed their nicknames
      • SteveB -> Stiv2k
      • joe -> sargas
      • trevorj ->trevorjay
  • when a server was added/removed/left the network
    • pawng
    • blindsight
    • placebis.net
  • channels created and dismantled
    • we used to have a channel #gentoo-n00b, #trivia (with an *ggdrop bot)
  • remember Trinity?
  • attacks
    • denial of service, password "stolen", clone spam, shutdown of blackhawk 'cause /etc/shadow (/etc/passwd ?) was pasted on gentoo.org forums
  • major shifts in goals
    • when exactly did we quit on Web Development?
  • server failures
    • major ones... not ones that occur daily :P

[edit] Unsorted "Facts"

  • Created a channel on Dal.net #neoturbine
  • joe starts running server _____ (i don't remember all the names) and it eventually dies :P
  • linolium and trevorj come through from gentoo.org forums
  • trevorj's server rachel.irc.neoturbine.net mysteriously disappears (along with trevorj)
  • trevorj registers intheskywithdiamonds.net, runs an ircd on lucy.intheskywithdiamonds.net
  • lucy dies due to power supply failure
  • uriahheep stops running an ircd (i forget its name). continues to run webserver from router.
  • OhHenry initiates a DoS attack on servers with very few zombies
  • OhHenry files complaint (or claims to) with our ISPs claiming violation of TOS
  • Turbzy aka. Andy was a menace on occasion; ran irc.turbzy.com ?

[edit] Later...

Maybe we can narrow down the dates to months or even specific days.

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