History

From Blitzed

1 Events from 1999
- 1.1 June 9th, 1999
- 1.2 August 2nd, 1999
2 Events from 2000
3 Events from 2001
4 Events from 2002
5 Events from 2003
6 Events from 2004
7 Events from 2005
8 Events from 2006
- 8.1 May 8th, 2006
9 Events from 2008
- 9.1 January 19th, 2008

Here follows a list of (what we deem to be) significant events in Blitzed history, including the events that led up to Blitzed being created. This information is probably biased, incorrect, and/or misremembered. If you have a different take on the matter then please feel free to add it, but let's try not to flame anyone unnecessarily.

[edit] Events from 1999

[edit] June 9th, 1999

blitzed.org domain registered by Adam.

Adam's original logo:

[edit] August 2nd, 1999

haven.uk.eu.xnet.org linked to Xnet. Admin, grifferz (under the nick Griff, coadmin: Adam). Running from Technocom (later to become part of Easynet UK).

[edit] Events from 2000

[edit] March 6th, 2000

penguin.uk.eu.xnet.org linked to Xnet. Admin, MrFridge. Donated by Linux User Groups UK courtesy of Planet Online (later to become Energis Squared, later to become Energis).

[edit] Spring, 2000

Xnet begins to drown in growing discontent, backbiting, infighting and general lack of operational clue.

Short-lived discussion regarding creating a new IRC network called Blitzed. Discussion leaked to Xnet public list by Sterri (Who got a swift lesson in X-Originating-IP:). Plans abandoned due to perceived difficulty of building an IRC network from scratch.

[edit] April/May, 2000

Xnet reaches ~900 users

[edit] July 25th, 2000

haven.uk.eu.xnet.org delinks from Xnet.

[edit] August 4th, 2000

haven.uk.eu.wrecked.net linked to WreckedNet (no longer has any functional website or domain name) with grifferz as admin.

At this time WreckedNet had ~80 users.

[edit] August 15th, 2000

penguin.uk.eu.xnet.org delinks and becomes penguin.uk.eu.wrecked.net. Most of the #uk crew follow from Xnet over the course of the next few weeks.

[edit] October, 2000

Conditions at WreckedNet become unbearable as wrecked.net domain name owner Syro sabotages the network, holding everyone else to ransom with his control of the DNS.

[edit] October 31st, 2000

The Blitzed IRC Network created in response to the eventual self-destruction of WreckedNet. Having no choice but to build an IRC network from scratch, we finally got around to trying it.

Two initial servers: haven.uk.eu.blitzed.org run by grifferz and penguin.uk.eu.blitzed.org run by MrFridge. Both servers were delinked from an already-crippled WreckedNet that day.

First ten nicks registered on Blitzed:

#blitzed registered by taz.

Software in use: Bahamut ircd, wrecked services.

Some WreckedNet staff and users make Blitzed their IRC home. Most of the rest end up at Skold's HabberNet.

[edit] November 1st, 2000

Blitzed reaches ~35 regular users.

[edit] November, 2000

Blitzed policies formalised. Executive Board formed, consisting of:

Admins, ircd and web teams formed.

[edit] December 6th, 2000

#niagara registered by CrazySpence

[edit] December 29th, 2000

Blitzed switches services from wrecked services to Blitzed Services v2, mostly based on Andy Church's ircservices.

Continuing minor modifications to Bahamut specifically for Blitzed use leads to first release of bahamut+blitzed.

[edit] Events from 2001

[edit] March 3rd, 2001

blitzed.org domain sold to Blitzed EB.

[edit] April 19th, 2001

jpayne links porkscratchings.pa.us.blitzed.org.

[edit] May, 2001

Crappy (later known as taras) takes over the Web team.

[edit] May 19th, 2001

New Blitzed web site launched.

[edit] July, 2001

Blitzed reaches ~100 regular users.

[edit] September 11th, 2001

kaleb links jalapeno.ny.us.blitzed.org, from a Lomag shell.

Unfortunately this is not the only reason for remembering this date.

[edit] September 17th, 2001

IZS (now known as Dee) links peanut.uk.eu.blitzed.org from his Easynet business DSL.

[edit] October 20th, 2001

Admin team rules that kaleb /killed a user for no good reason. kaleb resigns as admin of jalapeno.ny.us.blitzed.org and quits Blitzed rather than apologise to the user. jalapeno.ny.us.blitzed.org is delinked.

[edit] October 26th, 2001

16 days of services databases are lost in first (and so far, last) breakdown of backup policy.

[edit] October 28th, 2001

Admin team relinks jalapeno.ny.us.blitzed.org using its own resources.

[edit] December 23rd, 2001

perlguy links bacardi.uk.eu.blitzed.org from Frontier Internet Services.

[edit] Events from 2002

[edit] January 22nd, 2002

strtok releases the first version of the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor (BOPM).

Blitzed OPM, "the definitive open proxy blacklist service" is launched.

[edit] February 20th, 2002

Routing team formed, with jpayne as leader.

[edit] March 25th, 2002

Silencer links carrot.tx.us.blitzed.org from Alternative Web Services Pty..

[edit] April 23rd, 2002

Due to other commitments, jpayne resigns as admin of porkscratchings.pa.us.blitzed.org (delinking the server in the process) and as leader of the routing team. Silencer takes over as routing team leader.

[edit] May 13th, 2002

Admin team becomes so busy that it appoints swat as its secretary.

[edit] June 20th, 2002

Tux links dope.se.eu.blitzed.org, previously known as solace.se.eu.xnet.org.

[edit] July 12th, 2002

z|bandito registers #llamasoft - And yes, that means that Blitzed is home to the mighty Jeff Minter!

[edit] July 15th, 2002

Grem links vegemite.sa.au.blitzed.org from Userfriendly Computers Pty. Ltd..

[edit] July 16th, 2002

Blitzed Services v3 with MySQL backend put into operation.

[edit] July 28th, 2002

grifferz links lik-m-aid.ca.us.blitzed.org from Hurricane Electric and courtesy of sackheads.

[edit] August, 2002

Blitzed reaches ~200 regular users.

[edit] August 28th, 2002

ben leaves for Israel for 10 months, Silencer takes his place on the Executive Board.

[edit] September 17th, 2002

After ceasing all contact with the rest of the admin team for unknown reasons, Blitzed administration are forced to delink perlguy's bacardi.uk.eu.blitzed.org.

[edit] September 25th, 2002

piemaster links quorn.uk.eu.blitzed.org to replace bacardi.uk.eu.blitzed.org.

[edit] September 29th, 2002

phil links milk.de.eu.blitzed.org from GCI Management.

[edit] October 19th, 2002

Dee voluntarily delinks his server peanut.uk.eu.blitzed.org as it was not really necessary for Blitzed to have 3 UK client servers.

[edit] November 24th, 2002

Tekken links porkchop.dk.eu.blitzed.org and merges his network, irc.techen.dk. Nick and channel databases are converted and Blitzed gains several large Danish channels including #heroes.dk.

[edit] December, 2002

Blitzed reaches ~500 regular users.

[edit] December 31st, 2002

Debate begins on the admin list regarding Grem's failure to:

keep in contact with other admins
update his server software in a timely manner

As a direct result, Grem resigns as admin of vegemite.sa.au.blitzed.org.

[edit] Events from 2003

[edit] February 20th, 2003

Blitzed has its first general staff meeting. The most obvious outcome of the meeting is Silencer's removal as leader of the routing team, with MrFridge being appointed as a temporary replacement.

[edit] March, 2003

Blitzed reaches ~1000 regular users.

[edit] April 21st, 2003

Because of the rising tide of abuse and drones, email authentication becomes necessary to register nicknames on Blitzed.

[edit] April 29th, 2003

TalieseN links haggis.oh.us.blitzed.org from a reverse.net (FOOnet) shell.

[edit] June 13th, 2003

After missing a vote and in light of two previous delink votes, vegemite.sa.au.blitzed.org was eventually delinked from Blitzed.

[edit] June 16th, 2003

Entertainments Team founded with CrazySpence as its leader. This team is to promote the various entertainments, games and distractions we put on for our users.

[edit] October 15th, 2003

Learning of the impending loss of angora.blitzed.org, a plea for help in finding alternative hardware and hosting for our projects is made. Solaris comes to our aid and provides us with use of a dedicated server, nubian.blitzed.org, hosted at his employer, Genotec Internet Consulting AG.

Over the coming months most of our services are migrated here.

[edit] October 31st, 2003

Blitzed celebrates its 3rd birthday on this day. At this time the previous year, our average user count was ~300; by now it is ~1100.

[edit] November 1st, 2003

soylent-green.be.eu.blitzed.org, a test server supporting IPv6 and IRC-over-SSL is linked.

[edit] November 17th, 2003

In recognition of the amount of work required to keep our CGI:IRC service running, the admin team votes unanimously to grant dg an admin vote as current maintainer of our CGI:IRC servers.

[edit] November 26th, 2003

After a prolonged period of downtime and lack of response from its admin, jealusie (now known as sass), the admin team follows the only course of action left open and formally delinks jalapeno.ny.us.blitzed.org.

[edit] Events from 2004

[edit] January 7th, 2004

A man shaking hands with a goat. Goat says "Welcome to the Blitzed paddock, CyGa", the man replies "Thank you, Blitzed Goat! 1,000 blessings!" A Dutch translation is also provided

mark links chocolate.be.eu.blitzed.org and brings with him the rest of their existing network, CyGa.Net. Other staff joining Blitzed include Alex and Mrten, and many predominantly Dutch-speaking channels are brought to Blitzed.

This merge represented a much bigger task than the previous linking of porkchop.dk.eu.blitzed.org, since CyGa.Net was a longer-established network. In the end, after a few days of planning, very few CyGa users were forced to change their nicknames and the rest enjoyed the correct access in all their channels.

[edit] January 13th, 2004

#coattails was created and there was much Joy. Coattails' lingo and users begin to integrate into the network.

[edit] January 16th, 2004

quorn.uk.eu.blitzed.org was delinked after a unanimous vote of the admin team. The server had been disconnected for 3 weeks and the admin unreachable for four weeks, so a formal delink was the only course of action left.

[edit] February 10th, 2004

Blitzed continues its innovation as it becomes one of the world's first networks to use geographic load balancing. This means that anyone connecting to irc.blitzed.org is automatically sent to a physically close server.

The development means faster connections are the default for all Blitzed users, as well as minimizing the effect of netsplits in our predominantly regional channels.

[edit] May 15th, 2004

Hardware problems on nubian.blitzed.org cause extended downtime of website and IRC services, lack of updates to OPM zones, etc.. Thanks to assistance from Solaris, everything is rebuilt over the course of the next day with a hard drive failure being the suspected cause of the problems.

Intermittent reboots continue for the next few weeks however, and the problem is eventually tracked down to a loose power plug in the drive chassis.

[edit] May 17th, 2004

zucchini.fl.us.blitzed.org linked by kari from SagoNet.

[edit] July 21st, 2004

mango.va.us.blitzed.org linked by Silencer from Rackspace in Dulles, Virginia.

[edit] July 23rd, 2004

The Blitzed Wiki is officially launched. All registered Blitzed users are free to contribute.

[edit] July 27th, 2004

The Admin team grants Executive Board members who are also server admins the voting right.

[edit] August 4th, 2004

lik-m-aid.ca.us.blitzed.org delinked due to prolonged and unexplained instability.

[edit] August 10th, 2004

In order to better reflect their interests and activities, dg takes over leadership of the IRCd team while grifferz takes his place as leader of the Systems team.

[edit] October 31st, 2004

Blitzed celebrates its fourth birthday and nobody notices until the day after.

[edit] November 21st, 2004

cookies linked by User:Fraggle.

[edit] Events from 2005

[edit] January 4th, 2005

The admin team decide the Codorcet method of voting is best suited for network-related votes.

[edit] August 10th, 2005

The admin team votes on having Bahamut 1.8 as the network's IRCd.

[edit] August 29th, 2005

Silencer is appointed Routing Secretary.

[edit] September 24th, 2005

pizza.de.eu permanently linked to Blitzed by konni.

[edit] October 1st, 2005

coffee.de.eu permanently linked to Blitzed by phil.