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Long ago, on a planet far far way, I use to visit the site: Hanger 16. Hanger 16 was dedicated to reviewing various mods for FPS PC games, most of which were half life. Hanger 16 staff included Doc Brown, Starfox and Silver Sorrow. Silver Sorrow was my favorite because of his interesting metaphors and humorous rants. Alas, Hanger 16, for reasons unknown to me, has vanished. The web address remains but it's obvious the site itself has shut down.

So I searched for the staff of Hanger 16 and come to find out, they are still reviewing games at another site called Foxhole. According to Foxholes's FAQ, Hanger 16 shut down 2 years ago for reasons unknown and now majority of the staff resides at this site.

New site, same old game reviewers. It feels different though, Hanger 16 had a nostalgia to it and being a HL Mod fan, i went there frequently. Now that I've found Foxhole, I can enjoy those same old reviewers again.

Check out Silver Sorrow, the shit this guy writes is insane.

This whole search has got me thinking, even websites don't last forever. It's kind of a spin shivering thought if other websites i go to ended up like Hanger 16, especially Sydlexia.com.

I was also wondering if anyone has experienced this before, one minute a website you got to frequently is up and running then gone.

Posted: Dec 30 2007 09:37 pm

I wish a new challenger would attempt to recreate sixsixfive.com or do something along those lines. That was always a hoot.

Posted: Dec 30 2007 10:38 pm

I read his Sin review. Pretty good stuff.

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-bjork- wrote:

I wish a new challenger would attempt to recreate sixsixfive.com or do something along those lines. That was always a hoot.

there's a guy named "a new challenger" in the mugen community. coincidence?

anyways, unbeknown to many, the history of THI is a very convoluted one. In fact, ewvery now and then someone on THI posts a "look back" article to chronicle things. I will now post the first two, to give you a taste of the weirdness.

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A Look Back
Date Posted:
Written By: The Flyin' Jew
E-Mail Address: flyinjew@tehinter.net

I haven't slept in a good three days and I've had at least 12 pots of coffee in those past 72 hours. So I'm wired and itching to do something constructive. Failing to do that, I found myself reminiscing of the old days of the Internet, back when Jasonrivera.com was still offering free HIV and bodypaint, Cdogg was someone important, and nobody had ever heard of a Foodhater or a Nude Smurf. Boy, things have changed.

I'm sure if your one of the four people that frequent TMCS, you probably weren't around back when the site was actually known as cactuschris.com, or even further back, when it was hosted on a crappy freeservers account and was known as cactuschris.8m.com. I guess to get a full grasp of the history, I should start from the beginning.

Waaaay back in 1998, when E-feds were still popular, Cactus decided to start one, and it was hosted on expage.com, a site that lets you make single page web pages with ease. Cactus had next to no experience with Adobe Photoshop or HTML at the time, so he was amazed at how easy it was to build a website. This lead to the spawning of expage.com/cactuschris.

Having absolutely no content, it was still enough to spark his interest in web design. Believe it or not, there was a time when Cactus wasn't a lazy fuck (this was actually rather far back, as we were both still on AOL at the time.) Cactus stayed up countless nights figuring things out for himself and doing research into web design. Cactus eventually found freeservers.com, my future hell.

By now I had ended up living with Cactus and his family, and one night after RAW, we were googling "HHH pedigreeing Stephanie McMahon and her titties popping out" and lo and behold, Jasonrivera.com was at the top of the list, and the site definitely delivered, with crude pictures taken of Riv's TV.

I had immediately fallen in love with the site's fucked up humor and eye for nostalgia, and eventually read everything the site had to offer, and posted on the site's forums as "dr. imp". Cactus really didn't seem too interested at the time.

With the help of funky-chickens.com, work continued on what became cactuschris.8m.com and it's sister site, chrislayman.8m.com. The focus of the sites at the time was to prove that Christopher Andrew Layman and Cactus Chris were indeed two separate people, which is of course true to this day. In fact I haven't seen Chris Layman in years. I think he died or something.

After C.A.L.'s death, Cactuschris.8m.com took on a new direction. It featured small articles with the opinions and observations of Cactus, as well as his friends and relatives. That's actually where this jew got his start, with a little bit about Duck Hunt being a murder simulator.

Freeservers fever caught on, and the writers of Cactuschris.8m.com started their own sites: Flyinjew.8m.com, handofnod.8m.com, and darkhouseanime.8m.com.

Heading up the flyinjew.8m.com site, I was joined by Irish Baztard, who was an even shittier writer than myself. He didn't write much, and when he did it was usually about four sentences long. The site tried to focus on full articles, and featured the character of Dr. Imp, as well as cameos by the Green Goblin, Fred Durst, and the Nemesis from resident evil 3.

Darkhouseanime.8m.com didn't feature writing, instead focusing on the art of Megan Lahey. I think this might be the only site still functioning out of the original freeservers bunch. I had heard she was looking for new hosting, but friends grow apart, or go insane and become social shut-ins, so you lose touch.

Handofnod.8m.com was centered around B Movie Guru and his obsession with his hair. He was joined by Ratman, Weasel, and Dave. The site featured the same kind of small opinions and observations that Cactuschris.8m.com first had, as well as a page dedicated to a history teacher/war veteran and a page about conspiracy theories.

Flyinjew.8m.com and handofnod.8m.com worked closely together, often featuring each other's work or doing joint projects. Handofnod.8m.com always was more successful, however.

By now dr.imp had long been absent from the jasonrivera.com forums, considering I often lacked internet, depending on where I lived at the time, and in a strange plot twist, Cactus had become staff on the main site and urged me to reregister for "tough enough", a game that was going on between the forumers.

I had quickly made enemies with some, due to my constant whoring of my terrible site. Cactus bought cactuschris.com, but it only linked back to the freeservers site at the time. He also discovered proboards.com, and it wasn't long before cactuschris.com had it's own forums, with a cool matrix theme.

Somehow I ended up doing a joint article with Riv. A mock interview with Stone Cold Steve Austin, and too this day I think it was the only funny thing on flyinjew.8m.com.

Eventually Cactuschris.com turned into toomanychairshots.com, Cactus got himself an invisionboard and some real hosting, and cactuschris.8m.com and the clones that it spawned were laid to rest. Due to usual forum politics, two thirds of the jasonrivera.com forumers left to start their own boards. This led to the IHATEFOOD and MaroonX proboards.

I posted at both for a while. So sue me. This is where I met current THI staff member Al (foodhater). Eventually MaroonX admin Marion bought an invisionboard and eventually made a site. To this day it has only updated twice.

IHF spawned about thirteen more clone proboards, all of which are rather unimportant, The Inner Circle was destroyed by a mysterious force, sending its members over to jasonrivera.com, and TMCS was mildly successful. In fact, this is where Guru and I were writing for a while.

Many forumnams and invasions later, TMCS and MX are pretty dead, jasonrivera.com became hugeinternetsuperstars.com, and people still don't care about IHF and it's cloneboards. IHF started a site, that is pretty much just a giant link to the forum. For some retarded reason they ousted the site's creator, foodhater. I have no idea how you could be kicked off of your own website. If you really want to know, contact Al via the staff page.

I had been talking to Marion from MaroonX about starting up flyinjew.com, and had become rather good friends with him. An idea or two were tossed around, but nothing really happened for a while. I decided take a site in a different direction. Instead of a "insert my name here" site, I wanted to create something that would focus on the articles more than the site itself.

One night while sobering up, I found that I was unable to sleep, due to a fairly attractive girl passed out on my couch. Doing the ultimate nerd thing, I stole someone's template and built tehinternet.8m.com instead of taking advantage of her. Sometimes it's too bad that i'm a nice guy. Eventually Hardcore Redneck (who I met on the HIS boards) and Al (from IHF) joined up and things seemed groovy. I received a lot of help from Ninja R and T2 from hoodratz.net, and through one of T2's articles on Hoodratz, I met dyslexic penguin, from dyslexicpenguin.com.

Hugeinternetsuperstars.com, coming out of a feud with theddt.com bought theddt.net. Cactus didn't do anything with it, and HIS later returned to jasonrivera.com. freeservers started holding me back, featuring errors that shouldn't even be possible, and weird things just changing themselves all the time. One time the entire site actually disappeared for no reason. I had been considering a new design anyway. Hoodratz.net merged with Huffin n Puffin around this time as well.

It was time to move on. I took cactus up on an offer to use TMCS server space to host THI, and Marion and I made a new site from another stolen template. The design came out excellent, and I still worship the ground he walks on. The Nude Smurf and his buddy Arse (who I had met on X-Box Live) came over from 1up.com's Tanooki boards, and forum legend Cbright joined the ranks.

Jasonrivera.com is almost back to it's former glory, with Panzer returning from oblivion, new people writing, and Riv working his ass off to get everything up to speed. MaroonX might even see another article within the next fifteen or so years, and cactus often talks of working on TMCS again. Only internet god himself knows what the future may hold. As for TeH FUCKING Internet, we plan on being around for quite a while.

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A Look Back II: Electric Boogaloo
Date Posted: October 16, 2005
Written By: The Nude Smurf
E-Mail Address: thenudesmurf@tehinter.net

Damn.

That's all I can say, is "Damn." I can't believe that this has actually happened. A domain name might seem like something simple to some people out there, but to me, this is a huge step forward for Teh Internet as a whole. It's crazy to think that, just ten short months ago, you'd have to look at this to read what content was there. Hell, at that point, you had Jew writing, and a few contributions from various people that had nothing better to do. It was a spare time project, just some light work.

Then, we came along.

We being the staff that you see today. Call me crazy, but I think I have a right to be a self-centered cocksucker here for a second in saying that it's partially my doing (or should I say my fault?) that this site has come so far. It took a lot of work from a lot of people, but I really like to think that me and Jew got the ball rolling.

It's funny, really; everything that me and him have ever really talked about always comes back to the site somehow. I never talked to the guy before I found the site; I just knew him as a fellow poster on some forums I'd started posting at one day. He posted a message about how he needed a Smackdown recapper to accompany his Raw recapper, and I decided I was man enough to kinda take up the role. I tried it, and damn, it was fun. I started off in the beginning of December, and went consistent up to the "Christmas in Iraq" episode. That was one of the first new articles that ever was part of the "Chairshots" era. I'd like to call it by its whole name, but thanks to a certain nameless dickhead who has his finger on the speed-dial for his legal team, that won't happen.

The Chairshots Era was awesome for THI, as it really expanded our horizon. The main thing it brought was a pretty nifty layout that was...well, all right. Let's not lie here. If you've seen it in the past, it wasn't nifty. In fact, it was pretty fucking terrible. But, we all started to like it for its pure mediocrity after a while. More banners were made, small modifications were set in place, and it was a cozy home. Shit, we couldn't complain; the aforementioned dickhead was hooking us up with free hosting on a fast server with lots of space. Pretty cool, to be honest.

At that point, we started to really pick up steam. We asked for contributions from the people who wanted to write, but didn't have a site to put their work on. Wallpapers, videos, MP3's, articles, recaps -- whatever you wanted to deliver, we'd take it. Hell, we were begging for content most of the time. A lot of the people from the JasonRivera.com forums and The Tanooki Bored started to show a little interest. We were getting rave reviews!

Yep. We were the cream of the crop on the World Wide Web.

Things were definitely looking up for us. People even started wanting to get committed to write full-time for us, exclusively. We had EdWood, the gay, handicapped alcoholic; CBright, the white boy with enough angst to out-anger the crowd at a Limp Bizkit show; Arse, the hopeless virgin with an Atlantis mask; and Sock, the guy who wouldn't shut the hell up about the NHL lockout. Sure, we didn't have much, but what we did have was passion. Fuck knows the lot of us weren't the best writers, but we tried like all hell to make someone laugh. Someone was bound to enjoy our work one day.

One day, it happened. We started getting complimented. "That sucked" suddenly became "Shit, I really enjoyed that". The site that was once a group of Internet rejects were being touted as "The next Huge Internet Superstars" by Jason Rivera himself. We had the utmost awesome "Interview Week EX2", and we were the official home of the "Super Grande Update!". Things were really starting to pick up.

But, what goes up, must come down. Fuck Sir Issac Newton.

Just when everything was going perfect with the site, we hit a rough patch with "The Dickhead" that resulted in him deleting all of THI off of his server and changing the password on us. The good thing about getting so hot before coming down, though, was that we had a lot of connections; thanks to a few people who worked their magic, we managed to get back all of our archives. What we had to do was simple. Hell, it was as simple as an album title: "Infiltrate. Destroy. Rebuild.". The awesome part is, the first two-thirds of the work had already been done. So, we had little to do but rebuild. That's why you're reading this today.

Anyway, now that you've read through what was essentially a blog entry, here's who me and Jew would like to thank:

- Ourselves: Not to be conceited, but we really did put a lot of work into trying to get this site running again. Myself, I've taken on paying for the hosting with no advertising, and did the entire design for the site. Jew did a lot of the motivation in keeping me going, and for that, I know I can't thank him enough. He wanted to thank me in an article, so i'm just doing it for him. Fuck you if you don't like it.

- Andrew "Test" Martin: In our many test pages on the site, we had to come up with replacement images for what would eventually be plugged in. Who better than Test himself? If you ever wondered what the site looked like at one point, here's exactly what it looked like before we launched the site. Honestly, were it not for Test, we probably wouldn't have gotten through this. If only you could see the actual test version...had the streaming theme in the background and the "TEST TEST THIS IS A TEST" banner and everything. Andrew Martin, you're our hero.

- Marion Wallace: Talk about a savior, shit. He's the man that gave us hosting for the Test page while we didn't have webspace to host it on, and for that, we can't thank him enough. His help with the SSI is something we could never repay him for, also.

- Mike Espen: Dude. Fuck you for figuring out that duplicating image shit before I could. I hate you. <3

- Jason Rivera: Being called "The future Huge Internet Superstars" is seriously one of the best compliments we've ever received. All of the awesome things you've done to help promote the site are much appreciated, and trust me -- when you're in the Huge Internet Retirement Home, we'll be sure to pay a visit.

- The Staff: Every one of you are what kept us going before the downtime. Were it not for your awesome contributions, I don't think we ever would've even gotten to this point. Crusty, your "Gettin' Crunk" article is honestly something I had to read countless times just to keep myself motivated, because I knew there'd be reason to keep going. The fact that Sock would make us the world's number one resource for Black Jewish People on the internet was something that kept us thriving to get to this point. I'll never tire of getting e-mails from Bright with another edit of an article, because that shows me how dedicated that fucker is to making this the best it can be. Mr. Tony Cecil, your audiobooks are ace, and they're something that are irreplacable. Hardcore, you're the only other true ROH mark on the staff; that alone gets you MAJOR props. Arse...dude, wow. Wood, you set us up with hotel rooms, porn, and amazing B-Movie reviews. To Optimist and Heath, to quote ol' Punker's "Miseria Cantare" theme, "You...are now...one...of us." Don't ever think that you guys won't be repaid for all of the work you've put into keeping this whole project going, because one day, we'll get you back. Trust me on that.

- TheDDT.com: The free press ROCKED, and so did the hits.

- Cactus Chris: "The Dickhead". Yep, thanks, Chris. Thanks for giving us the inspiration to be better than some extension on a site that's been dead for years. Sad thing is, the most hits the frontpage ever got was when it had the Superkick GIF. What has to hurt even worse is that you made an entirely new layout for an index that was just moved to another folder. For the record, it was in the "simondean" directory.

- But most importantly, The Readers. Trust me, were it not for the awesome feedback we've gotten from you guys, then none of us would have even written a single fucking article. Your efforts in letting us know that we suck made us better; your efforts in letting us know that we're getting better are just going to make us keep improving. You're the best set of fans and readers that a fucking website could ever, ever ask for. We'll pay you guys back too, one day...maybe even with one memorable article. Can't promise you more than that one, but we'll try to deliver on it.

If you feel left out, we didn't forget you. Trust me, we keep everyone in mind. But, before this bullshit gets even more sappy, here's to a new beginning. TehInter.net -- Not only "The Most Fucking Intelligantest Thing Ever", But the Fucking Best Site Ever."

ironically, THI now has most of the guys who helped us out on our staff, or we own their archives. also, reading these old articles again really brought a sense of nostalgia to me.

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I don't expect you guys to actualyl read that. moderators feel free to moderate.

Posted: Dec 30 2007 11:13 pm

That reminds me. I have an article to finish. You know, later, and stuff.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

we all do.... we all do....

actually, I am recruiting for a super archive overhaul. if anyone is interested and knows a little html, letaniggain!

ok, this thread totally got derailed, sorry!

Posted: Dec 30 2007 11:53 pm

Hot off the press! (And not proofread at all, so sorry for any mistakes!)

http://www.tehinter.net/?p=1450