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1996
May 1
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Elfwood
was opened by Thomas Abrahamsson
Orginally,
the name of the project was Lothlorien and was only focused on high fantasy
art done by amateurs. When opened, Elfwood featured the art of three artists
(Thomas being one of them)
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1997
Aug
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The
Extranet is opened
Before
this point, all new art was emailed to Thomas who put it up by hand. With
the new extranet (originally named the "intranet"), users can
manage their own accounts.
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1998
Apr
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The
wyvern's library is opened
Elfwood
opens up for written material for the first time.
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1998
Aug
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FARP
is opened
FARP
is the Fantasy Art Resource Project at Elfwood, with tutorials of various
relevant topics.
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1998
Oct 26
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10000 pictures.
Today, the ten thousandth
picture was added to the Elfwood web site.
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1998
Nov
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Elfwood
is closed for new users for the first time.
For
a couple of weeks, Elfwood had to close down for new members (for the
first, but not last, time) due to overwhelming workload.
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1999
Feb 16
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1000 artists.
Today, the 1000th
artist was added to the Lothlorien area of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy art gallery Elfwood. This makes
Elfwood to one of the worlds largest online galleries.
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1999
Aug 16
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The
Woodchat email list is opened.
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2000
Apr
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The
ERB crew is founded.
To bring
order back to the Elfwood chaos of rule breakers and other naughty actions,
the Elfwood Review Board was founded. They are responsible for the Elfwood
rules and also occasionally enforce them.
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2001
Mar 3
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Elfwood
hardware is upgraded to PIII-1000mhz and 1 gb RAM.
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2001
Jun 26
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Elfwood
is closed due to death threats to the management from some annoyed members/visitors.
Some canadian guy threatened to kill the ERB crew.
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2001
Jul
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Elfwood
is reopened after the death-threats close-down.
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2001
Jun
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The
FanQuarter area is introduced.
We gave
our members a three month allowance to move their fan art to this new
area.
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2001
Jun
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Woodworks
idea is born, and Georgette Tan starts working on the concept of an Elfwood
focused eZine.
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2002
Jan 1
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The
ticket system and the moderator concept is opened for testing.
The
first basic version of the ticket system is programmed by Thomas during
his christmas vacation.
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2002
Jan
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The
first issue of the Woodworks eZine is published!
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2002
Jan 22
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The
idea/word/concept "Elftown" first appears in the personal diary
of Hedda..
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2002
Feb 12
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The
first 10 moderators start working on the new ticket system.
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2002
Feb 7
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Elftown
gets its first two testing members.
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2002
Dec 20
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Elfwood
hardware is now in a huge PC server case, running AMD cpu's on 1.5 GB
RAM.
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2003 July 4
Dec
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Elfwood PC server internals replaced with a bigger setup (2 x AMD and 2GB Memory), while Elftown inherited the old setup (increasing that community's server speed a LOT!)
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2003
Dec
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A new server architecture was introduced, where the load of serving all images we're routed to a dedicated and very fast PC server named Ewancient. (2.6Ghz PC) - this significantly increased the response time of all of Elfwood...
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2004
Jan 28
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Elfwood got a new graphical design/layout, and the Zone47 area was merged into the Lothlorien area, creating a united art area for all kinds of Fantasy/SciFi/Horror art.
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2006
Feb 27
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New record, 100 000 unique visitors in one single day!
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2006
May 1
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10 Years birthday!
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2007
May 13
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Elfwood skips the joining test.
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2007
Sep 1
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New hardware and new domain - we move
all source code, systems, servers, etc to two new powerful PC's;
and at the same time we move it all to use the elfwood.com domain
and host it outside of the university.
Elfwood is transformed from a noncommercial project to a
swedish "AB" company setup to support its future developement and financing.
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2007
Sep 28
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Elfwood Launches several new functions for
visitors and artist alike, with several new functions to build a
tighter community.
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2008
Jan 10
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New Guestbook System
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2008
Feb 4
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Elfwood Forums launched!
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