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1997:
A year in perspective
by dangermouse
Well, what a year it has been. Acheron started exactly
one year ago, January 1997. Since then we've covered all
manner of scene related news, interviewed just about everyone
it seems, and added many new features..
Stop the Press!
Looking back over the last years news files, its interesting
to actually see what happened..
Jan:
The whole acid!ansi scandle dies down, and napalm
death starts the logo only group lead productions.
Feb:
Girl joins the scene and dies one pack later.
Dieznyik organises the network 97 competition which
also dies, and Sodium officially kills of his '9'
issue Acrylic Weekly Magazine.
March:
Shade, headed by dfuse and phlare, disbands..
This month also saw the revamp of the acheron site
from its crappy frame predecessor. Colornox (acid)
was kind enough to supply the 'acid-site-like' graphics,
which made the site look a whole lot more professional.
Acheron at this point became a little popular, having such
people as crowe and pariah joining the team as news co-ordinators.
April:
ACiD Productions attempts to salvage its ansi department
by making it a seperate entity called Avenge.
Apocalytpic Visions, one of the largest Australian
art groups, releases a pack after a long absense.
May/June:
The tyrone emag, involving such names as Empty,
Pariah and Discyple, is officially released.
Lit.org is unvieled to the scene, being run by
crowe. I remember acheron getting involved
with the site, it being the american mirror of the old australian
site (the original). Lit.org went down a few months later,
due to crowe having other commitments (ie. moving). The
company that was also moving the server to the new location
stuffed up to apparently..
Acheron also went under a major overhaul. The old
design of colornox went out the door, and a new, easier
to navigate site (current) was put in it's place..
Blade releases its 40th pack and Cenobite dies.
July:
Cia announces its 50th pack competition..
Napalm submitted a really cool banner for this competition..
Well, we both liked it anyhow :)
ACiD Productions releases its line of baseball
caps! Some of you may have received correspondance relating
to this in the mail, with spiffy photos.. [get comment on
sales from Radman]
August:
A web ripper is found. The Xtreme site was
found to have copied certain images, and the basic layout
and interface from the acheron setup at the time.
Scenelink, headed by Neofish, officially opened
its doors, and boy did it do a good job on its first issue
-- an immediate success.
Mass Murderer quits the scene (again).
The #hirez channel was formed this month, or really,
just started grabbing the attention it deserved.
September:
The Knight announces he's leaving the scene, and
burps does likewise.
Siva and Decadence (headed by The Calibre and Creator
respectively) join forces.
Acheron's rumours section is released only once,
reporting items like, "Hennifer quits scene", "TNA leaving
AWE [false]", etc..
October:
This month saw the untimely death of NightDee (Levi).
The 3D artist, who was well known around scene channels,
ended his short life on the 15th of October. RIP Levi.
Acheron got its domain this month, costing the
princely sum of $50 / year. :> We'd been hanging out for
a domain for a very long time, and this month I decided
to get off my butt and do something.
Mistigris released their 3 year anniversary pack!
Cia releases its 50th pack, a three part extravaganza
of goodies..
Sodium also decided to release his extremely funny
Two Days in the Scene, a tarentino style crime story
involving most of the inhabitants of #ansi and #ascii. Reportedly
the story got 100 hits in the first day of being releasedon
sodium's offer bot.
November:
Someone decided to spread around that Sodium was dead,
falling from his window whilst trying to break back into
his house to retrieve his keys. The mentioned party wasn't
too happy about it, due to his group being stuffed up, and
how he died in such a dumbass manner:
" It sure fucked up my group. I would have rathered
had died like fighting an intruder or getting shot in some
covert op.. not falling out of my window like a dumbass.
"
The ACiD rc5 team was going pretty strong, in its
bid to crack the code before other major corporations and
universities did..
This month also saw the release of the design.tcsourceone.com
ftp server, which creator hoped would serve as an alternate
area for pack releases.
November also saw the return of Pariah to the ascii
scene news co-ord, having been absent for a number of months,
reporting his usual release dates, and a new RemorseDraw.
Meatpod also joined the ascii news team.
A new groups section was added this month also,
for a number of reasons. Earlier in the year I had the idea
of a group index, encompassing group news, members and packs.
The group news section was a trade off for this section,
realising a bigger section would have meant competing with
scenelink. The first month only saw news from Zeus II,
representing FUEL.
December:
The big news this month was the bungled attemted suicide
of Retribution, poor bastard.. Basically, the real story
goes like this..
Ret got into a huge fight with his parents, and
they both drove off to let off steam, leaving ret by himself.
Ret called up this chick to come around and cheer him up,
and like, yeah, maybe get lucky.. Whilst this girl was over,
he got a page from her cousin saying "You were incredible"
(and Ret did not ever have sex with this chick), and the
girl with him got REALLY REALLY mad at him, and she
left..
Ret was now at the lowest point of his life.. He
got a 9mm handgun and held it to his head.. But,
his senses came back to him, and he realized what he was
doing.. In the process of pointing the gun away from himself,
Ret's thumb accidently set off the trigger, resulting in
the gun going off. The bullet either grazed or went
through his shoulder, he isn't sure..
He was found by his mother unconcious, and promptly
taken to hospital. He awoke the next day.. The two girls
came to visit him, both appologising, especially the one
who sent the message.. Remember, suicide aint worth it..
The other big news this month of course was the demise
one of the scene's largest groups, Twilight Studios/Productions/etc..
:) The group was formed in November 1996 by Deeply D.
Radman decided to use acheron as a launch platform for
the ACiD Gathering '98: The Inebriation, which was
held at Cluck U!
Scenelink came back to the scene with its december
issue, after an absense due to site redesign, and general
rethinking..
If you think we missed anything important, then by all
means, email us: submissions@acheron.org.
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