3. When Ethan handed the keys of his geocities site over to me and a few other people. Not exactly SP but the origins of it.
Quick history for everyone -
When I was a freshman in highschool I started your typical geocities "I'm a cool and original guy" webpage. After a few months I realized this was stupid. However, I had put up a guestbook which is sort of like the great great great grandfather of these forums. For whatever reason, people just wrote a lot in it.
A few minutes on google and I found a site where I could make a messageboard. By now I had given up pretty much completely on the site and occasionally updated it with links to things I thought were cool, poorly done photoshops of me shooting lens flares (my first few weeks of getting photoshop were fun) and the like. It was essentialy just a place where all my friends could hang out on the internet.
A really fun time came when a mysterious figure who called himself "King Ned" started posting on the board, threatening to destroy everything. Naturally, we all laughed at him and made fun of his genitalia.
Then he changed the password to the site, my e-mail, and screen name (for those of you wondering, thats why my current screen name is Roawen69 instead of EmperorEthan - I had to create a new one during those emergency days, and though I eventualy got all my original shit back, never bothered to go back to that one) and did all sorts of terribly embarressing things.
After a few days of arguing with the clownskull over AIM I gave up, cut my losses, and made a new geocities site with the roawen69 name. After about a month I pretty much grew tired and discouraged with the whole damn thing. I told dave about my decision to just quit the whole deal and for whatever reason he thought that was a bad idea and offered to take over the whole thing. I figured why the hell not, and gave him the password for the thing and free reign to do whatever he wanted with it. After a few days I figured other people could do some fun stuff with it, so I e-mailed the password to Dan, Steve and told them to do whatever they wanted.
Dan was just getting into coding, and Steve was all for having fun with the thing, so together with Dave, they changed the layout into something that resembles how it looks today. The first night it went up was also when I suggested to Dave the name "Space Pirates Ltd" which for some reason he liked. The three of them played around with the thing and eventualy I started writing again and we got into some semi-regular updates. This was around the summer of 2002 if I remember correctly.
The next year in highschool, for whatever reason, people changed how they looked at us from "boring nerds" to "interesting nerds" and we got a lot of positive feedback on the site. A new message board was made (the one which we just switched over from) and we started getting semi-regular traffic. Our first giant publicity stunt came when, at a pep rally early our junior year, we handed out pieces of paper with the space pirates logo (which I had designed over the summer) and encouraged people to tape them to their shirts. The God of stupidity must have been visiting Henderson Highschool that day, as people actualy did this. Our finest moment came when Ian Gottesfeld, one of the fastest students in the country as well as message board frequenter, lifted up his jersey to reveal the space pirates logo to the entire school.
Later that year Steve organized the purchase of both space pirates shirts, and the domain name which we have today. Over the summer of 2003 Blood Monsoon 1 and 2 were filmed, and later played to the school, Space Pirates logo and all in 2004.
That pretty much takes us up to here.
Viva le Space Pirates!
