TerRouge.com
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Terrouge Productions - Home of Terrouge Magazine
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In the summer and fall of 1998, David P. (formerly of the RoTW Project, Shallowthorn, and other projects), Kenny C. (formerly of Salamandastron), and Josh B. (formerly of Bobbo's Den) banded together in an attempt to make a significant contribution to the ROC (Redwall Online Community). Along with Kelly H., then of Castle Alelea and now of Fernblossom, an excellent artist and our cover illustrator, we decided to put what we saw as a truly revolutionary idea into action. At that time, none of us foresaw the success that our venture would gain . . . we just hoped that we'd eventually have a site that a lot of people would want to come to. Dave was our design guru, Josh was the Chief Reporter, and Kenny handled editing and other various jobs. In November 1998, or work was introduced to the world as . . . Terrouge!
Dave and Josh are responsible for coming up with the name Terrouge, a name that has since been pronounced many different ways by many different people. It comes from a combination of the Latin word for "earth" (terra) and the French word for "red" (rouge). Therefore, our name should roughly be translated to mean "red earth", or "land of the red". As the languages of origin of Terrouge are Romance (Latin and its derivatives) languages, the pronunciation should also conform to those languages; thus, when you say, "Terrouge," it should sound something like "Tur-ooj." This pronunciation, however, is not the one I use, and you shouldn't feel like you have to say it that way, either ;-).
When starting out, we were just a bunch of poor teenagers, so we went with free webhosting from Vr9.com. We stayed there until May 2002, when Vr9 went down unexpectedly and unannounced. In July of 2002, we were still a bunch of poor teenagers, but we made the decision to move to a paid-for hosting site (Ez-Web-Hosting) and registered the Terrouge.com domain name. Gone are the old days of sporadic connectivity and near-daily site problems -- and thank goodness for that.
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