[ARCHIVED THREAD] - History of arfcom? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/2/2010 5:11:25 PM EDT
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Is there an area that gives the history of the site?
Its been online awhile and I really would like to know how it started. |
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It started out as an email list serv in the late 90s. Eventually they started a web forum. Then sometime (2001 based on site staff join dates) the original forum was replaced with what we see today. I don't know why the original was replaced, but I do know that GoatBoy coded this site himself....
Along the way some epic threads were born: Arock Range Report I Am Legend bathtub impressions Something about a goose and dresser 
Wal Mart draw down Lootie I'd like to know what the deal with John Deere hats came from. Same with the jeep with orly the owl, lolwut pair, and the Obama logo proclaiming "It has begun!" That avatar cracks me up. |
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AR15.Com originated in 1996 as a mailing list for firearm enthusiasts. As the years passed and interest grew, a website came into existence to present those same enthusiasts with a means to collect, share, and explore information. Shortly afterwards, a bulletin board was added to create a more interactive experience for the growing list of users. The site was still in it's infancy, but was growing in popularity.
In 2001, after a few years with troubled software and an ever expanding user base, AR15.Com scrapped the common software used throughout the internet and begin to create custom software for their users. The site changed to better handle the flow of information as well as a new goal, the long term storage of information. As site costs grew, the hobby quickly became a business, requiring the added support of the community in order to continue. AR15.Com has since dedicated itself to continued improvements and expansion of services. Having secured top notch network services, hardware, and software, site work often entails a large amount of database tweaking and expanded coding to ensure everything is optimized and functioning at high levels. The stability of the site, which was often it's greatest weakness, is now it's biggest strength. Over the years our focus has shifted from stability of the site, to the protection of our firearm freedoms. We must continue to teach firearm safety, promote our sport, and join with the countless other firearm supporters to strengthen our stand. The staff here is dedicated to the community and to this fight, working to improve our relationships with businesses and users alike. The future is in all our hands and those who have been a part of this site for years can attest that we will always strive to make everything around us better. Please feel free to contact our staff members with any questions you may have regarding the site. If you'd like to help ensure our future, you can make a contribution to the site and become a "Team Member." Businesses who wish to find out more about our advertising and sales offerings should read our advertising section. http://www.ar15.com/about/ Holy Mother Bitch I Used My Eyes and Look What I Found ETA Also Arfcom 101 |
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It started out as an email list serv in the late 90s. Eventually they started a web forum. Then sometime (2001 based on site staff join dates) the original forum was replaced with what we see today. I don't know why the original was replaced, but I do know that GoatBoy coded this site himself.... Along the way some epic threads were born: Arock Range Report I Am Legend bathtub impressions Something about a goose and dresser
Wal Mart draw down Lootie I'd like to know what the deal with John Deere hats came from. Same with the jeep with orly the owl, lolwut pair, and the Obama logo proclaiming "It has begun!" That avatar cracks me up. You left out Nuke Boy, The ARFCOM Nationa Monument and maybe Heavy 6. I'd like to know about the JD hats as well; does that have something to do with a "bunch" (unk #) of AZ guys who all got themselves banned? |
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AR15.Com originated in 1996 as a mailing list for firearm enthusiasts. As the years passed and interest grew, a website came into existence to present those same enthusiasts with a means to collect, share, and explore information. Shortly afterwards, a bulletin board was added to create a more interactive experience for the growing list of users. The site was still in it's infancy, but was growing in popularity.
In 2001, after a few years with troubled software and an ever expanding user base, AR15.Com scrapped the common software used throughout the internet and begin to create custom software for their users. The site changed to better handle the flow of information as well as a new goal, the long term storage of information. As site costs grew, the hobby quickly became a business, requiring the added support of the community in order to continue. AR15.Com has since dedicated itself to continued improvements and expansion of services. Having secured top notch network services, hardware, and software, site work often entails a large amount of database tweaking and expanded coding to ensure everything is optimized and functioning at high levels. The stability of the site, which was often it's greatest weakness, is now it's biggest strength. Over the years our focus has shifted from stability of the site, to the protection of our firearm freedoms. We must continue to teach firearm safety, promote our sport, and join with the countless other firearm supporters to strengthen our stand. The staff here is dedicated to the community and to this fight, working to improve our relationships with businesses and users alike. The future is in all our hands and those who have been a part of this site for years can attest that we will always strive to make everything around us better. Please feel free to contact our staff members with any questions you may have regarding the site. If you'd like to help ensure our future, you can make a contribution to the site and become a "Team Member." Businesses who wish to find out more about our advertising and sales offerings should read our advertising section. http://www.ar15.com/about/ Holy Mother Bitch I Used My Eyes and Look What I Found ETA Also Arfcom 101 Wow, thanks man. I cant believe I couldnt find that. That pretty much sums up what I was wondering |
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AR15.Com originated in 1996 as a mailing list for firearm enthusiasts. As the years passed and interest grew, a website came into existence to present those same enthusiasts with a means to collect, share, and explore information. Shortly afterwards, a bulletin board was added to create a more interactive experience for the growing list of users. The site was still in it's infancy, but was growing in popularity.
In 2001, after a few years with troubled software and an ever expanding user base, AR15.Com scrapped the common software used throughout the internet and begin to create custom software for their users. The site changed to better handle the flow of information as well as a new goal, the long term storage of information. As site costs grew, the hobby quickly became a business, requiring the added support of the community in order to continue. AR15.Com has since dedicated itself to continued improvements and expansion of services. Having secured top notch network services, hardware, and software, site work often entails a large amount of database tweaking and expanded coding to ensure everything is optimized and functioning at high levels. The stability of the site, which was often it's greatest weakness, is now it's biggest strength. Over the years our focus has shifted from stability of the site, to the protection of our firearm freedoms. We must continue to teach firearm safety, promote our sport, and join with the countless other firearm supporters to strengthen our stand. The staff here is dedicated to the community and to this fight, working to improve our relationships with businesses and users alike. The future is in all our hands and those who have been a part of this site for years can attest that we will always strive to make everything around us better. Please feel free to contact our staff members with any questions you may have regarding the site. If you'd like to help ensure our future, you can make a contribution to the site and become a "Team Member." Businesses who wish to find out more about our advertising and sales offerings should read our advertising section. http://www.ar15.com/about/ Holy Mother Bitch I Used My Eyes and Look What I Found ETA Also Arfcom 101 Wow, thanks man. I cant believe I couldnt find that. That pretty much sums up what I was wondering No Prob 
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About when I started reading about AR15s online and when I found this site: http://web.archive.org/web/19980112101219/http://www.ar15.com/ |
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About when I started reading about AR15s online and when I found this site: http://web.archive.org/web/19980112101219/http://www.ar15.com/ I built my first lower in 99 from the "how to" on that site. I also ordered my first 4 front takedown detents from trying to follow those instructions. There's still 3 of them somewhere in my old house. 
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Are you Aimless's troll account?
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I don't think the shitty forum software has been upgraded since the beginning. 
Fuckin' newbs. Let's not forget: McUzi's rant.. Garandman, your incessant posting of sanctimonious bullshit and self righteous
nonsense proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that indeed sometimes the slowest sperm does fertilize the egg... While you may fancy yourself some sort of a “Christian”, I am sure Christ would gleefully leap off the nearest bridge in order to disassociate himself with your holier-than-thou crap. All I can think of when my eyes are burned with the continual lack of quality content of your posts, bible thumping horseshit, and moderator ass-kissing is that another 4 minutes of my life could be potentially wasted should I make the mistake to read whatever you have written. You have dirty clothes, BO, bad breath, and I am quite confident that should one open your top dresser drawer, it would contain skid marked underwear. Your children will grow to be nothing more then felons or beggars due to their genetic lineage. Likely, even your car is a smog machine, and pollutes the earth like you pollute this site. You are a festering infected boil on the ass of gun ownership, and Christianity; with the apparent intelligence of an autistic gnat with downs syndrome. You are the type of weenie that causes people of mutilate themselves, trying to escape the emotional pain that people as worthless as you even exist. Knowing that you are a gun owner, I am strongly leaning towards supporting testing for firearms. The fact that a man who can’t even grasp the insane hypocrisy that exists in your constant barrage of self-sainthood is allowed to own a habiliment of destruction is a fucking social calamity, and needs to be stopped. You cry like a woman, and you have a night-light to fend off boogie men. You dress in drag, and you listen to ABBA. I am guessing that early in life, Hitler encountered the Jewish version of “Garandman”, thus explaining his future actions. I wish you nothing less then painful pancreatic cancer. Stones in your shoes on long walks, and blisters on your ass as you sit down to shit. Sleepless nights, broken hearts, hurricane damage to your home, sadness, pain, misery, “Out of the Closet” outspoken homosexual children, traffic tickets, loss of loved ones, felony convictions for crimes you didn’t commit, weight gain, stubbed toes, sprained limbs, damage to the transmission of your car on the ONE DAY you really needed it, always having “something in your eye”, having to smell other peoples farts in elevators, long waits at traffic lights, getting laid off from your job, medical bills, having a squib load, then firing a round after it, holes in your socks, underwear that’s too tight, sexual impotence, limb amputation, or any other possible iniquitous event that could harm you as bad as your mere presence harms humanity as a whole. I believe elimination of inutile cocksuckers such as you could bring everyone on this planed of differing views together, for the sole purpose of your eradication. You are living proof that humans can impregnate rodents. I fucking hate you. |
I have been told this site started as a result of a newsgroup in the early 90s or late 80s. I wasn't really online then, but I'll take peoples word that was how and where things got started.
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I remember the old majordomo mailing list.
Only names I can remember from it though are Tripp Whitlow(spelling?) and ARTweaker. Was on it for a long time before I pulled the trigger on getting a login to the site. The backup ar15 yahoo mailing list still exists though. |