Chats v2:History

From PJJ Wiki

Mid/Late 2000

• Created the initial chat at the request of Forexs and V.
• Used flat-file database, and was only a single self-contained chat.

January 8th, 2001

• Hosted on DHT on the projectjj.dk domain.

Somewhere after April 2001

• Changed to MySQL. This was the shift from Chats v1 to Chats v2.
• The chats left from before the change to MySQL are:
  • Shadows of Deceit, of course.
  • SoD: Deep Space
  • The X-Mansion
  • The Cantina, a Cross-Franchise RPG

May 8th, 2001

• First board post on the 'new' in-chat boards.

May 2002

• Started recording creation dates on chats. Oldest existing chat recorded in this way is Black Dawn: 2110 from May 29th, 2002.

June 2002

• Bought hosting on TOS

August 2002

• Was suspended from TOS for gobbling CPU and RAM. Back to DHT.

August 26th, 2002

• Beseen is shut down by LookSmart "Due to the high cost of offering this free service..."

April 1st, 2003

• Made a spoof that LookSmart had bought the chats. Got a lot of fun reactions since they were the ones who bought and shut down Beseen.

April 2003

• Ordered a dedicated server from Central Internet Web Hosting, but they never got it to work. Was refunded later on.

May 2003

• Investigated other dedicated server hosts. Eventually settled on ServerBeach.
• First month on ServerBeach was chaotic since the machine would randomly reboot.

June 2003

• Got a completely new machine from ServerBeach since the old was declared dead. Has been on the new one ever since, with no problems.

July 2003

• Registered pjj.cc to get a shorter domain instead of chat.projectjj.com.

December 2004

• 380 chats, 15000 lines per day, 110 daily chatters.

August 8th, 2005

• Black Dawn: 2110 died due to inactivity. Oldest tracked chat is now Armands Catacombs OOC from August 13th, 2002.

December 2005

• 390 chats, 10000 lines per day, 130 daily chatters.