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Who knows what day Microsoft officially released the sourcecode to us? February 2004, but which day?
Who knows what day the MS Allegiance Gaming Zone was taken down for good?
Who knows what day beta0 testing officially began? beta1?
Who knows what day Titty Baby died?
When did SOVLogin go online?
When did ASGS first come online? ASGS2?

There are so many important days in our community's history, and only now have I realized just how much we've forgotten.

I'm curious to see just how much our community remembers about itself. If you know an exact day that something important happened in this community, post it here. Let's see how good our collective memory is /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

--TE

Did alleg go gold April 29, 2001 is it my imagination?

Google (and internet archive) can easily answer most of those questions.

aem wrote:QUOTE (aem @ Nov 13 2006, 11:50 PM) Google (and internet archive) can easily answer most of those questions.

Yeah but that's cheating. I wanted to know who knew the answers in our community.

--TE

I of course know all the answers but I'm not telling.

Also, Orion doesn't know even though he'll say he does. /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />

easy: 12 november 2005

<-- Points at Forum join date.

Also see this http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/06/167202 old slashdot posting.

I would wager the answer for No. 1 is either the 4th, 5th, or 6th of February.

Incidentally, it's pretty interesting to see what a lot of people were thinking about it only 2 years ago.

Tigereye wrote:QUOTE (Tigereye @ Nov 13 2006, 10:14 PM) Who knows what day Microsoft officially released the sourcecode to us? February 2004, but which day?
Who knows what day the MS Allegiance Gaming Zone was taken down for good?
Who knows what day beta0 testing officially began? beta1?
Who knows what day Titty Baby died?
When did SOVLogin go online?
When did ASGS first come online? ASGS2?

There are so many important days in our community's history, and only now have I realized just how much we've forgotten.

I'm curious to see just how much our community remembers about itself. If you know an exact day that something important happened in this community, post it here. Let's see how good our collective memory is /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

--TE

Don't have a clue on ANY of these dates and I am too lazy to google anything right now.

As the PayPal measure was put in place, it was said that it was a temporary measure, and that a new security system was on the way. However, the truth seemed to be that no one was actually working on that system, and for months the PayPal system was in place, completely blocking off new players. Luckily, after a few months, Pook completed the Allegiance Secure Gameplay System, or ASGS. It was released as an open beta on July 17th 2003. Requiring the .NET Framework to be installed on computers, this new system caused quite a lot of new trouble for players, while being another of the most positive things the community has seen. Players now had yet one more thing required to play with before getting to play, and with it tremendous amounts of debugging were required to get players through this one. However, with the ASGS running, which also required SOVLogin to launch itself, the community was finally at peace again. In addition, a lot of new players started joining, thanks to the multiple postings by Allegiance community members on all kinds of message boards, and the facilitated accessibility to Allegiance. Pook also continued support of ASGS, providing frequent updates, adding not only updates to correct issues, but also to add great features to improve its usability and make ASGS high-quality software.

-from the Academy's history page

I pretty sure that PayPal measure was some conspiracy cooked up by Paypal and Pook. I created my Paypal account just for that purpose and now use it all the time. Of course, it is a bit frustrating having to resend them all my financial and personal information every time they email me, man they must have terrible bookkeeping. /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />