# history*

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## a brief history of dark pawns

   **Recorded by: Frontline**

   This is the unabridged history as best anyone can remember. There is likely some stuff missing. If you know what it is, send us a mudmail and we'll get it corrected. This is an updated version of the history of DP originally written by Orodreth circa 1999.


| September 1994 | DP is Born! It is based upon CircleMUD 1.7 and ran on
 knight.ufp.org. At this time Serapis (D. Karnes) and Tracer
 (C. Jackson) are the primary developers. |
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| December 1995 | The base code for DP is changed to CircleMUD 2.2, now known as DP
 v1.0 |
| February 1996 | Arak (B. Parker) and Orodreth (S. Thompson) join the team as
 coders. Oddity (A. McConnell) joins the team as head builder and proves very
 valuable. |
| March 1996 | DP's base is once again changed, this time to CircleMUD 3.0pl9,
 which is a beta version of CircleMUD 3.0. Frontline (R. Paret) joins
 the team as a coder. Nimos and Aralius (R. Martin) join as builders.
 This version has become known as DP v2.0 |
| June 1996 | Upgraded the base code to CircleMUD 3.0pl11. |
| December 1996 | Moved to augusta.net |
| May 1997 | DP moves to www.mystech.com, known as pawns.guru.org, because
 our location on augusta.net was discovered. Mystech is Serapis' employer at the
 time. |
| October 1997 | Moved to darkrune.guru.org a machine owned by Orodreth and hosted at
 the University of Virginia, Blacksburg. The mud is still advertised by the alias
 pawns.guru.org

 Staff changes as Orodreth and Serapis become co-implementors. All inactive
 immortals fired/deleted. Oddity leaves. |
| May 1998 | The hardware is the same, but the hostname changed to
 ritual.darkrune.org also known as
 pawns.darkrune.org DP v2.1 is unveiled!

 Serapis leaves. Frontline and Orodreth become co-implementors. |
| December 1998 | DP moves again! This time it's because Orodreth has graduated from University.
 Wolfpaw.net, an upstart mud hosting provider, is gracious enough to host us for free
 in exchange for some advertising. We move to alcatraz.wolfpaw.net, and change
 port for the first time from the default 4000 to 4300. Alcatraz is aliased as
 pawns.wolfpaw.net and pawns.darkrune.org.

 We release DP v2.2, the largest update in DP's history.

 Delirium and Hulk join the immortal staff.

 The next version, called Dark Pawns:Age of Cities is announced. This is later
 refered to simply as 3.0. |
| October 1999 | Staff shake-up as several immortals (Delirium, Hulk) and all chosen
 are demoted/fired. |
| December 1999 | Doragar joins DP staff as a builder/coder. |
| April 2000 | Our free account with Wolfpaw expires and DP starts costing money
 to operate. We move to talon.wolfpaw.net and keep
 pawns.wolfpaw.net and pawns.darkrune.org as our aliases. |
| February 2001 | Disaster! A malicious user breaks into talon.wolfpaw.net and destroys all
 of the files associated with DP! We are able to recover somewhat from backups made
 by Orodreth but all player rent files and newer player data are lost, along with
 significant portions of the new version of Dark Pawns, 3.0.

 darkpawns.com is registered and is now used as our alias.
 A redesigned DP website is unveiled. |
| Current | The mud remains active and fully operational while work continues on the
 long-overdue version 3.0 |





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