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Heh, it all
started to the best of my knowledge around end of the summer 1998 (Vin says
it's July 11th 1998, but a /chanserv info #rspw turns up dec 1999, and I
*know* that ain't right). Warriorman had started the very first #rspw on
dalnet as a place to go to chat with people from the newsgroup. That first
group to *my* knowledge consisted a lot of Dave_Z, Warriorman, Setzer, chadbryant,
Stone_Golem, Brute, Vin, Demchuck, Memery, TheManInSC, and me, Krusty (I
floated in a couple months or so after it was founded). I could be fuzzy
on all that, and will change it the moment someone points out a descrepency.
We moved to BIRC (DeSaDe~!) shortly after (Jan 1999) then got booted off
there because Alex_Cain got a bunch of people klined (shout outs to my main
man Cain, kickin' it troll style since back in the day!). Thin skinned
IRCops and a troll with a lot of time to kill do NOT mix well.
The next period of time is a jumble of jumping around to servers (webchat)
and changing names. I'm pretty sure the whole changing names thing started
one night when Chad once again made kook history by pulling off the maneuver
still fondly referred to as "The Deuce". See you have to shut
your eyes and picture the really fat kid in class getting mad and storming
off to take his bat and his ball and going home. He left #rspw in a huff,
stormed off, and formed #rspw2 to "take chat to the next level".
The kook spin machine in full effect and the room was predictably as successful.
Another hilarious moment came the time John Henry, or "NetBastard",
in a spastic attempt to control the world's rec.sport.pro-wrestling chat
empire, went to every open server with a services on it and registered "#rspw"
on them. It was hilarious going to obscure irc servers and entering "/j
#rspw" to see you're already akicked from the channel and NetBastard
was registered on the network a mere ten minutes before #rspw was registered.
There was the ensuing social engineering whereby the IRCops on a server
(I *think* webchat) were somehow convinced to give up the channel and turn
over the password. I wish I had saved logs of it. To see the way "NetBastard"
flipped out, you'd have thought we had killed his pet gerbil. He was calling
IRCops names, spitting and screaming about how he was going to travel long
distances just to "kick your ass". It was classic stuff. Then
there was the famous "shat wars" when a poofy Brit named "Dave_Lawrence"
made his main event debut by bringing *his* room (#rspwchat, which he had
successfully idled in for six months prior, to "pay his dues")
to the forefront. It was a bloody mess, but the final result was the young
up 'n comer [Drazic], or Sickboy, registering #rspwtalk on DALnet over a
year ago. That's where the room's been since.
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