lmn(history)

History of Liquid Magnesium Networks

What is now Liquid Magnesium Networks has gone through many different stages and forms, from our humble beginings to the thriving user community that exists today. Here's a short timeline of how we got where we are now.

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Mid-1997

Unfurl set up a server to dink around with at his then-employer AZ Starnet. The first server was a Pentium 120 with 48Mb of RAM and a single 1.2Gb (Quantum Fireball) IDE hard drive and was called jive.azstarnet.com. After a month or two he started giving accounts out to friends and family. Corey is the first non-local user to get an account.

08-Dec-1997

Nacholand.com is registered and the server changes it's name to jive.nacholand.com. The nacholand.com domainname comes from a joke in the Starnet office. The admins at this time are unfurl, phunk, and chaley.

11-Aug-1998

Unfurl registers dub.net and moves the blossoming user community to it. The server becomes jive.dub.net.

19-Jan-1999

After moving to Seattle, Unfurl works out a new deal with his long time friend Natey to share resources and move the old Jive community to a new home. They register magnesium.net and the server takes the new (and current) name: toxic.magnesium.net. Unfurl works out a deal with his friends (and previous employer) at Impulse Internet Services for free server space and bandwidth. The first machine under the magnesium.net domain was a dual Pentium Pro 180 with 128Mb of RAM and a single 4Gb scsi hard drive.

20-Sep-2000

Toxic gets an upgrade to a Pentium II/400 with 512M RAM and 3 disks (4G/9G/18G)

27-June-2003

Toxic is once again upgraded to a dual Pentium III/1.26Ghz with 2Gb of RAM and a 240gb RAID 10 array based on 4 120Gb IDE drives and a 3ware RAID Controller.

Current

As of early 2002, our server toxic.magnesium.net handles mail, dns, and web service for over 50 domains and supports over 130 users. It is still admin'd by Unfurl and Natey.