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Today is the Shroomery's birthday! 7
#26870337 - 08/08/20 04:42 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Surprised I didn't see anything about it other than in one of Learyfan's "Today in Psychedelic History" threads....I've always wondered about it.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/16665708#16665708
(from this day in 2012)
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Ythan said:
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Learyfan said: Ythan, could you please recount, step by step, the day that The Shroomery went online and the work you put into it in the days leading up to the launch? I'm sure we'd all love to hear it.
Oh shit thanks for posting man, I totally would have missed this anniversary if someone hadn't pointed it out. I've been sidetracked and this morning has been particularly crazy. But yeah, wow, 15 years! Sort of makes me feel old, but I guess that's kind of an unavoidable consequence of actually getting old hehe.
So yeah my memory about starting the site is not super-clear, since it was such a long time ago, but I remember a few things. It was the summer after my freshman year of high school and I had only tried mushrooms once at the time. Our original address was http://www.drh.net/shroomery, and I mailed in $45 in cash for three months of hosting since I didn't have a credit card. Back then I used lycaeum.org a lot, and admired it. I wanted to make a version of Lycaeum that was focused just on mushrooms. My dream was to someday be as successful as they were. Now we have a million unique visitors a month, and they're offline. It's kind of bitter sweet.
Before starting the Shroomery I had a site called Soul Coughing Underground, so I wasn't completely new to web design. But things were so super basic then. I didn't know anything about web scripting. PHP was brand new. The most dynamic part of the site was the javascript on the main page that would say "good morning", "good afternoon" or "good evening" based on your system clock. And I think I might have ripped that from an example somewhere. When someone wanted to add a trip report, they filled out a form that sent it to my e-mail, then I coded up the web page and uploaded it by hand. There was no message board. There were no user accounts. The site was laid out using three frames and was blindingly bright red, blue, and yellow. We had a picture of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes as one of the navigation images, and an M.C. Escher mantis for another one. Both scanned with my (dad's) super-cool cutting-edge SCSI flatbed scanner - there was no Google Image Search or anything like that.
At some point we moved off drh.net and on to http://shroomery.lycaeum.org. There's a whole crazy story there, where they threatened the site for copyright infringement, but then after public outcry they changed their mind and hosted us for free. Eventually we moved to our own server and became shroomery.org. We didn't register .com or .net for a while, but it was no big deal because domains were like $100/year back then and there weren't really any domain squatters.
We hacked in a few little Perl scripts and a very basic message board from Matt's Script Archive, but we didn't really embrace the whole dynamic site thing until another admin, Aphex, moved us to Windows NT Server with IIS, ASP, and MS Access for the database. That's when I started to learn about web development in earnest, and the switch to Linux, PHP and MySQL later on was relatively painless since it was conceptually similar (it also helped that Aphex did most of the work hehe).
I remember setting up the chat room, and idling in there for hours waiting for another person to join. I remember when I recognized every member of the site, and was psyched when I'd see a new person start posting. I remember when we had a shitty hit counter on the main page, and when it broke because we were getting too many visitors at once. Back then I was upset we had lost our count; now I see it as a milestone all its own. I remember when two members who met on the site got married. I remember when Pnut shot himself and ripper OD'd. I remember a lot.
But I don't want to ramble though, I'm not sure how much of this is really interesting to other people. However, if anyone is curious, we do still have the original news archives from when the site was founded. Cheers everybody, and I'm looking forward to bumping this post in 2027.
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Re: Today is the Shroomery's birthday! [Re: openmind] 1
#26870354 - 08/08/20 04:59 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy birthday shroomery!
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Re: Today is the Shroomery's birthday! [Re: spirit_shadow] 1
#26870371 - 08/08/20 05:18 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy birthday shroomery
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#26870420 - 08/08/20 06:07 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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CHeifM4sterDiezL said: Happy birthday shroomery 
I remember the " " being posted a lot in my early days around this place, actually haven't seen it in a while & kinda forgot about it lol.
I remember seeing this one a lot too back then>>>> 
I sure hope this place sticks around and its classic internet forum interface/layout doesn't change much over the years .
I've only been on maybe a dozen or so forums over my years, on different topics, and shroomery is hands down the best and I've never stuck around a forum as long as I have the shroomery. No other site has nearly as many smiley/emoticons things as here. The community and assortment of all ya weirdos is cool too lol.
There are some tards around here but I find it to be mostly a community of genuine folks. And diverse enough that it's not a total echo chamber.
I don't post much per day and I don't "interact" or socialize much around this place, but it def does have a home-like & nostalgic & somewhat of a fam feeling to me and I've become familiar with a handful of ya'll over the years. This place has become part of my days and a day at home with out logging on here just doesn't feel right lol.
I've met some cool folks from this place over the years too .
I can't believe I've already been around here for more than a decade , totally boggles my mind .
Tho I've been around here as long as I have I still have not grown any mushrooms . I've never done any cultivating at all and would still be a total newb at doing so (tho I know the gist of it). I do hunt and harvest my own mushrooms from patches of wild woodlovers in my area and I continue to eat them at least several times a year (I mushrooms), but growing any sort of mushroom at home/indoors is something I've still never done.
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Re: Today is the Shroomery's birthday! [Re: openmind] 2
#26870493 - 08/08/20 07:03 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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learyfan, where you at man! 
Happy B-Day Shroomery! 
Today's 8/8/2020. Numerology FTW!!!
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#26870545 - 08/08/20 07:41 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's crazy how long the shroomery has been around. I was just a kid when I joined, maybe 22 or 23 and I'm pushing 40 now.
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#26870547 - 08/08/20 07:42 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy birthday!
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#26870688 - 08/08/20 09:14 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wish I had became a member some years ago when I was first introd into the mushroom world. I did alot of lurking, disappeared for years, now Im back.
Truely one of the best forums I have ever been a part of. Happy Birthday you sexy bitch.
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