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07 Black Friday and Beyond
5-19-05
Most of the remaining There staff (including Levi Jones and Minai) is laid off in one of the saddest days in the history of There. Members, including the MAB and other groups, rally to the support of the reaming There employees. At a special (packed) MAB meeting, attended by X-MAB and Current MAB members alike Michael Wilson addressed concerns raised by the membership. 5-26-04 There announces Levi items and Nike items will no longer be sold.
5-28-03 Bacios and Portahomes released in shop central! Including the large portahome which was originaly going to be issued only in small numbers.
5-29-04 Elliot Beasley releases his "Dedication" video.
6-5-04 Rick Slick releases a please don't close there slideshow/video
6-8-04 There sends out a community letter telling the membership that Raffle Tickets have been discontinued , forum reorganization announced too.
6-9-04 Brett gives his "Follow the Bouncing ball" State of There Address inviting all the members to follow the bouncing ball and sing along "There in NOT closing"
6-10-04 Chagall releases the "Party There" video
6-13-04 There releases a ton of 'test items' in catalog including ramps and hoverpack hoops.
Other items were added to staff catalog, but did not work at all. Including many drinks.
Most interesting of all these itmes which did not work was a 'image sign' which evidently would displace an in world taken screenshot.
6-15-04 Members find unlimited paintguns in catalog.
6-18-04 The very first ThereCon starts. originated by Hula this week long series of events had the misfortune to be the first full themed event to occur after Black Friday, although planning started in early Feb. With the exedous of several builders many projects for this event were scrapped. Miracle Pictures premiers Broc Lee and the movie as well as a movie quest called Land of There Lost during the event. In a contest the ThereCon Mascott was named C'ThereLu! by Narile!
6-24-04 gaultier releases a video about g0d
7-9-04 The very first Aloha Friday, organized by Hula, takes place.
7-23-04 Hula introduced the University of There
7-30-04 Quest Kits and Card Tables pulled from Shop Central 'temporarily'.
8-11-04 Brett gives an forum update as There approaches the 90 day period.
8-16-04 ThereCare launches!
8-19-04 Caldera Sun Times closes.
8-23-04 There Inc becomes Forterra Systems.
8-23-04 ? There releases more clothing items in shop inclluding more skirts and rave pants. Advertising in Karuna moves into sacred PAZ's ending the wall of karuna - or at least pusing it back further. The rave jeans billboard (shown at right) featured an animated scrolling texture. The skirt with the neon writing flashed on and off. Previously the giant skirt with the writing has been seen just past the Monkey Pool near Karuna. Now it moved near the spa end of Karuna Plaza.
8-26-04 First post Black Friday update add in monthly rentals on funzones.
Unofficial There Gathering in Southern California is a ton of fun! Baloo, Vash, Jack and other There staff drive south to attend!
8-28-04 Giant drain discovered in ocean! Bacios released in world in several greta pastel colors!
8-30-04 Fat Hamburger releases a trailer for his Austin Powers movie.
9-13-04 Annual memberships announced
9-18-04 Meret unveils his statue of liberty!
9-30-04 Brett leaves There
9-30-04 Alex Community announces the nomination process for the Fall 04 MAB
10-1-04 Pineriver releases the Keep on Jumping video.
10-1-04 New Kansas and Comet become PAZ dropable.
10-?-04 Phedre releases her wonderful western hats and Indian braids (for women). The men's long hair does not work out and later she brings out "The Brave" hairstyle.
10-4-04 Helper Nilla leaves There.
10-13-04 Mission Slightly Difficult begins casting
10-14-04 Next beta test announced and NDA is lifted. Most members invited in.
Previous beta tests (form V2 Beta till October 04 still covered under NDA!)
10-14-04 Phedre's Wild West hairstyle the braids is released in several colors. Men's braids were delayed then later canceled and the brave was created to replace it. Cowboy hats came out a week or so later.
10-15-04 The Avie Who Shagged Me is released by Fat Hanburger.
10-20-04 Kangaroo releases The Old Wattering Hole music video
10-27-04 Fall MAB members announced.
AllisonChains Amxscott Celtic Chagall DocD DreamWeaver Geea Ishmael55 Kally_Lunch Malika mrf1xit Nep oli UBER_GEEK xThor ZachC
10-28-04 new version runs a program that cleans out inventories. This makes log-ins slower for the first few times you log in then later it becomes faster. T-Bucks change from 1787T/$1 to 1800T/$1. Skin colors are changed again to better match clothing colors. Shop Poster try=outs increased to 10 minutes up form 30 seconds. Hoverboats can now fly up to 50,000 meters (the old limit was 10,000) There hands out a 1 year anniversary gift to al current members! A nice shirt celebrating the first year. Cafe Press shop opens and introduces a few related items including a hoodie and a mouse pad have the same image on them. many vehicles have lower prices (like hoverboats (down about 10k) and Bacios (about 4k less) many catalog items are also significantly cheaper. Some items, however, go up in price.
10-29-04 There opes Cafe Press shop for real life There goodies!
10-29-04 Giant religions statue appears on top of Mt. NeNe in cplporter's PAZ. Statue designed by Jinx_tv
10-29-04 New Fall MAB 2004 announced:
AllisonChains
Amxscott
Celtic
Chagall
DocD
DreamWeaver
Geea
Ishmael55
Kally_Lunch
Malika
mrf1xit
Nep
oli
UBER_GEEK
xThor
ZachC
10-31-04 Kangaroo releases the cool I Shot The Sheriff video
11-12-08 a memorable 'live quest' occurs in There featureing many there staff members. Hosted by the "There Live Quest" group it is an elaborate quiest and diffult to finish in the time alloted, but the overal result was turly memorable! The quest was called "Where's Hula?" and it was the first quest to ever be promoted with a video commercial!
11-22-04 ? Baloo introduces a proposal to the membership detailing developer submission price increases for builder items, lower prices for many clothing items, and the removal of the free developer copy. This goes through many revisions before implementation.
12-3-04 Mackie returns to the programing team to take over from Hula as Programing and Activities director. Hula decided to pursue other activites.
12-2-04 Mission Slightly Difficult holds a wrap party on completion of filming the epic feature length motion picture. Editing proves problematic and the film is not released until the follwoing year.
12-7-04 All auctions are all going to be canceled as part of the change in pricing of developer items. New submissions after this point are moved to the 'resourced based pricing model' However tis is delayed until the start of the following year.
12-7-04 includes a new winter themed island claled Frosty, which turned out to be shaped like a snowman!
12-10-04 Hula has her final day working for There.com
12-22-04 Droopy and members of the group "Kindness Awakened" invite the there staff to ahve a good time on them and present the There staff with aproximately $675 worth of therebucks! Like most events there was some entertainment (in the form of Oli doing an interpretive dance to "You are my Sunshine" and then things degrade into a paintball match.
Janruary 05
1-19-05 There staff members had a night on the town paid for by the members of there through a fundraising event by the group "Kindness Awakened" led by Droopy. Members of the There staff deceded upon Dave and Busters in Milpedis for fun and food.
1-28-05 Kittenkat gets her 1000th approved item!
1-31-05 All Auctions end on Jan 31 to make room for the new version of the developer program.
Feburary
2-2-05 New version includes more developer templates including large scale (shops config 2-5) , Higher polygon chairs, decks, knicknacks, etc. Cuban heels, High resolution testures for clothing, single texture animations, Low res clothing testure too, and strangely enough someting I hav enever seen in there an animated there house door painter, acio painter, flutterbug painter.
?? ?? There closes for a day as they move thier co-location facility. There suggests that people pick up thier PAZ's rather than loose a day of rent. No mention of what house or zone renters should do though : )
3-3-05 Steve delivers a State of There address outlining his vision for the future of There.
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