AmigaWorld.net
Title
Amigaworld.net - Amiga Community Portal
Description
The site originally began back in 1999 when David Doyle (aka DaveyD) and 10 people formed an IRC Channel on Undernet called #Amigaworld (now on its own server irc.amigaworld.net) to escape from the insults and immature behaviour often found in other Amiga-related channels, the purpose of channel is to be the most friendly and helpful channel on the Internet. Today the channel does really well with 30 to 50 people on the channel at the same time.
In early 2000 we launched an associated web site, initially the site was primarily to profile users of channel, but as features were added like a forum and regular news updates predominantly provided by Steve, the interest in the web site grew, and we started to gain a group of regular web visitors. Initially the forum was slow to kick off, then just as we were getting regular posts every day and sponsorship from cloanto, our web site host went bankrupt and pulled the plug. Having lost so much of the recent data for the site, by the time a new host had been found, it was decided by the remaining staff to create a new site from scratch, using one of the content management systems (XOOPS in our case), and so David Doyle began to mock up site ideas.
After several different looks were discussed, he finally launched the new site in October 2002. At first again, things were a little slow to kick off, and only a few members started posting, but after a few weeks, more and more people had begun to join the member list. We gained the sponsorship of Kicksoft, and as interest grew, the word began to spread of a fresh new Amiga web site, with the growing number of wars growing on other news sites/forums, lots of people came to see if we were the place they were looking for. As we grew, so the number of Staff grew with it, and the number of features offered increased. Extra php developers, moderators and even radio hosts were brought on-board to help develop the site to the point it is now.
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English
Contact
- Amigaworld.net
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- Alexa: AmigaWorld.net
