LNH History - Revision history

Ununnilium at 16:22, 15 June 2025

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Ununnilium: /* 1994 */

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‎1994

Ununnilium: /* The Post-Beige Age */

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‎The Post-Beige Age

Ununnilium: /* The Beige Age */

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‎The Beige Age

Ununnilium: /* The Dark Age */

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‎The Dark Age

Ununnilium: /* The Sabertooth Age */

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‎The Sabertooth Age

Ununnilium at 23:47, 17 November 2024

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Ununnilium at 23:45, 17 November 2024

2024-11-17T23:45:44Z

Ununnilium: /* The September Age */

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‎The September Age

Ununnilium: /* The Dark Age */

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‎The Dark Age

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 * '''June:''' [[rec.arts.comics.creative]] is approved. In storytelling terms, this leads to ''[[Retcon Hour]]'', the LNH's most sprawling and ginormous crossover to date, as [[wReamicus Maximus]] and other temporal threats take advantage of the newly recreated net.reality. The Legion traitor [[Contraption Man]] had come from the future to warn about is revealed as Contraption Man himself, the first in a long line of LNH plot resolutions that would make more sense than the Big Two comic plots they parodied. Two new series spin out of ''Retcon Hour'', both of which end up significant:
-** ''[[Legion of Occult Heroes]]'', by NTB writer [[Paul Hardy]], collides the urban-fantasy-Vertigo-horror feel of the NTB with the LNH's sheer cosmic weirdness. Issue #4 ends up as one of the most influential single issues of all time, tapping the freely metafictional aspects of the LNH for intense philosophical drama.
+** ''[[Legion of Occult Heroes]]'', by NTB writer [[Paul Hardy]], collides the urban-fantasy-[[Vertigo]]-horror feel of the NTB with the LNH's sheer cosmic weirdness. Issue #4 ends up as one of the most influential single issues of all time, tapping the freely metafictional aspects of the LNH for intense philosophical drama.
 ** ''Constellation'' is succeeded by the long-running and influential series ''[[Dvandom Force]]''.

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 === 1994 ===
-* '''March:''' Before this point, new users to the [[Internet]] showed up every September as university students gained access, and were taught its customs and mores over the next year until a new wave of newbies showed up. In March 1994, AOL opened up its Internet service, and along with other means of access opening up further and further to the general public, ushered in an era where new users were constantly showing up, known as [[Eternal September]]. This includes the LNH, as new readers and writers arrive who never interacted with the original [[rec.arts.comics]] community.
+* '''March:''' Before this point, most new users to the [[Internet]] showed up in September, as incoming university students gained access, and were taught its customs and mores over the next year until a new wave of newbies showed up. In March 1994, AOL opened up its Internet service, and along with other means of access opening up further and further to the general public, ushered in an era where new users were constantly showing up, known as [[Eternal September]]. This includes the LNH, as new readers and writers arrive who never interacted with the original [[rec.arts.comics]] community.
 * Tensions over crossposting LNH stories boil over as [[Mike Kelly]], who'd created the founding LNHer [[Myk-El]], takes the anti-crossposting side. wReam responds by revealing Myk-El as the long-hinted-at Legion traitor (a parody of the X-Traitor plotline in the 90s X-books) and having Ultimate Ninja kill him. Most of the "Council of Elders" approves this, but Dave Van Domelen objects, writing an issue of ''[[Constellation (series)|Constellation]]'' that retcons Myk-El's death. This all leads to the dissolution of the Council. ''Constellation'' #27 would remain a well-regarded issue even after everyone stopped caring about the [[Usenet]] drama that inspired it, which had quickly become a moot point as...

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 * resurrection of the [[Legion of Net.Hippies]]
-* ''[[Another LNH Title? Really?]]'' begun by [[Arthur Spitzer]]. (It would evolve into being loosely the Classic equivalent of ''Bite-Size Tales of the LNH''.)
+* ''[[Another LNH Title? Really?]]'' begun by [[Arthur Spitzer]]. (It would evolve into being loosely the Classic equivalent of ''[[Bite-Size Tales of the LNH v20]]''.)
 * Arthur posts ''[[JONG]]'' #69.

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 * The second LNH Wiki
 === 2009 ===
 * In the midst of all the event-story upheaval, [[Drew Nilium]] comes back to RACC and starts putting out new LNH stories on an unpredictable but consistent basis, moving towards their role as one of the core writers of the post-Beige age.
 === 2011 ===
-* 2011: East/West coast brotherhood split established, a plotline which was pretty much ignored at the time but got big later.
+* East/West coast brotherhood split established, a plotline which was pretty much ignored at the time but got big later.
 * Initial threads that lead to the creation of [[LNH20]], [[Jeanne Morningstar]] returns.

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	* [[Amabel Holland]] and [[Jamie Rosen]] form the [[8FOLD]] imprint, which doesn't interact much with LNH but is very cool.		* [[Amabel Holland]] and [[Jamie Rosen]] form the [[8FOLD]] imprint, which doesn't interact much with LNH but is very cool.
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		+	* ''[[Cauliflower the Christmas Miracle Pooch (series)\|Cauliflower the Christmas Miracle Pooch]]''
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		+	=== 2006 ===
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		+	=== 2007 ===

	(ends with Adventures Beyond Comprehension #10?)		(ends with Adventures Beyond Comprehension #10?)

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 * '''October 14th:''' WikiLull finally gets resolved with ''[[WikiLull EXHALE]]''. To set this up, Drew writes a goofy, off-the-cuff story, ''[[Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!]]'' #3, which plays with the status quo Arthur had set up months earlier.
-* ''[[Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!]]'' explodes into tremendous activity, becoming a channel for the pent-up energy of quarantine, with over forty issues posted in the first month and a half.
+* ''[[Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!]]'' ''immediately explodes'' into ''tremendous'' activity, becoming a channel for the pent-up energy of quarantine, with over forty issues posted in the first month and a half.
 === 2021 ===

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	== The Golden Age ==		== The Golden Age ==
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	* '''Somewhere in early October:''' [[alt.comics.lnh]] is created, in an attempt to stem the [[flamewar]]s over the LNH's presence on [[rec.arts.comics.misc]]. However, it is created without going thru the proper channels, and thus, many servers don't accept the group; while a.c.lnh became the group's new home, stories continued to be [[crosspost]]ed to RACM and continued to be controversial.		* '''Somewhere in early October:''' [[alt.comics.lnh]] is created, in an attempt to stem the [[flamewar]]s over the LNH's presence on [[rec.arts.comics.misc]]. However, it is created without going thru the proper channels, and thus, many servers don't accept the group; while a.c.lnh became the group's new home, stories continued to be [[crosspost]]ed to RACM and continued to be controversial.

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 === 1992 ===
-* April 27: [[Bill Sherman]] signs off a [[rec.arts.comics]] post by referring to himself as [[Spelling Boy]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes Legion of Super-Heroes].
+* '''April 27:''' [[Bill Sherman]] signs off a [[rec.arts.comics]] post by referring to himself as [[Spelling Boy]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes Legion of Super-Heroes].
-* April 29: [[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes|Dan'l "The Ahkond of Swat" Danehy-Oakes]] responds by assuming the name of [[California Kid]] and declaring himself part of a new legion, born from the fires of RAC: the [[LNH (Classic Team)|Legion of Net.Heroes]]! RAC posters love this idea and a whole long thread begins, where people choose silly names and powers.
+* '''April 29:''' [[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes|Dan'l "The Ahkond of Swat" Danehy-Oakes]] responds by assuming the name of [[California Kid]] and declaring himself part of a new legion, born from the fires of RAC: the [[LNH (Classic Team)|Legion of Net.Heroes]]! RAC posters love this idea and a whole long thread begins, where people choose silly names and powers.
-* May 6: One [[Steven Librande]] responds to all this by declaring himself the ingenious [[Doctor Killfile]], who will destroy the LNH with his patented Kill-o-Ray! <ref name=brotherhood/> Various RAC posters respond by RPing as their LNH characters, joining into battle against Doctor Killfile in true 27-to-one hero fashion. This is the beginning of the long RP thread that becomes the ''[[Cosmic Plot Device Caper]]'', the first [[Chaotic Add-On Cascade]] in LNH history, and the beginnings of LNH as a storytelling universe.
+* '''May 6:''' One [[Steven Librande]] responds to all this by declaring himself the ingenious [[Doctor Killfile]], who will destroy the LNH with his patented Kill-o-Ray! <ref name=brotherhood/> Various RAC posters respond by RPing as their LNH characters, joining into battle against Doctor Killfile in true 27-to-one hero fashion. This is the beginning of the long RP thread that becomes the ''[[Cosmic Plot Device Caper]]'', the first [[Chaotic Add-On Cascade]] in LNH history, and the beginnings of LNH as a storytelling universe.
-* Early-to-mid-June: Due to the erratic internet access outside of universities in those early days, the CPDC threads are abandoned until the next semester.
+* '''Early-to-mid-June:''' Due to the erratic internet access outside of universities in those early days, the CPDC threads are abandoned until the next semester.
-* September 1: The [[Two-and-a-Half Month Gap]] ends with [[Scavenger]] issuing the [[Call to Arms]]. LNH storytelling revs up again, with all kinds of new authors including [[Drizzt]], [[Dvandom]] and the chaos-creating [[wReam]] jumping in to revive the saga. Many iconic characters are created in the chaotic and contradictory post-Gap threads, including [[Continuity Champ]], [[Acton Lord]] and [[Ultimate Ninja]]. Scav develops his storyline into ''[[501 Blues]]'': ''[[The Long Road to Nowhere]]''.
+* '''September 1:''' The [[Two-and-a-Half Month Gap]] ends with [[Scavenger]] issuing the [[Call to Arms]]. LNH storytelling revs up again, with all kinds of new authors including [[Drizzt]], [[Dvandom]] and the chaos-creating [[wReam]] jumping in to revive the saga. Many iconic characters are created in the chaotic and contradictory post-Gap threads, including [[Continuity Champ]], [[Acton Lord]] and [[Ultimate Ninja]]. Scav develops his storyline into ''[[501 Blues]]'': ''[[The Long Road to Nowhere]]''.
-* September 10: As Scav continues ''[[The Long Road to Nowhere]]'' largely independent of all the other add-on thread shenanigans, Drizzt begins writing an epic story, involving most of the LNH, which would create a coherent plot and sort out the post-Gap add-on chaos once and for all: the ''[[Cry.Sig on Infinite Net.Earths]]''! The ''Cry.Sig'', as the LNH's first grand cosmic battle royale story, would inspire the structure of many tales to come, and introduce a net.villain who would eventually cast a long shadow over the [[Omnilooniverse]]: the [[Crossover Queen]].
+* '''September 10:''' As Scav continues ''[[The Long Road to Nowhere]]'' largely independent of all the other add-on thread shenanigans, Drizzt begins writing an epic story, involving most of the LNH, which would create a coherent plot and sort out the post-Gap add-on chaos once and for all: the ''[[Cry.Sig on Infinite Net.Earths]]''! The ''Cry.Sig'', as the LNH's first grand cosmic battle royale story, would inspire the structure of many tales to come, and introduce a net.villain who would eventually cast a long shadow over the [[Omnilooniverse]]: the [[Crossover Queen]].
-* September 30: [[rec.arts.comics]] is removed and replaced by a number of different groups, including [[rec.arts.comics.misc]], the new home of the LNH &ndash; but not without controversy, as some posters see the stories as inappropriate on a discussion-focused group.
+* '''September 30:''' [[rec.arts.comics]] is removed and replaced by a number of different groups, including [[rec.arts.comics.misc]], the new home of the LNH &ndash; but not without controversy, as some posters see the stories as inappropriate on a discussion-focused group.
-* October 3: ''[[Cry.Sig]]'' finishes, as does ''[[The Long Road to Nowhere]]'' three days later. Their conclusions signal the transition of the LNH from chaotic freeform RP to serial storytelling, with posts imitating the structure of ongoing superhero comics.
+* '''October 3:''' ''[[Cry.Sig]]'' finishes, as does ''[[The Long Road to Nowhere]]'' three days later. Their conclusions signal the transition of the LNH from chaotic freeform RP to serial storytelling, with posts imitating the structure of ongoing superhero comics.
 == The Golden Age ==
-[October 1992-Retcon Hour]
+* '''Somewhere in early October:''' [[alt.comics.lnh]] is created, in an attempt to stem the [[flamewar]]s over the LNH's presence on [[rec.arts.comics.misc]]. However, it is created without going thru the proper channels, and thus, many servers don't accept the group; while a.c.lnh became the group's new home, stories continued to be [[crosspost]]ed to RACM and continued to be controversial.
 === 1993 ===
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 === 1994 ===
-* March: Before this point, new users to the [[Internet]] showed up every September as university students gained access, and were taught its customs and mores over the next year until a new wave of newbies showed up. In March 1994, AOL opened up its Internet service, and along with other means of access opening up further and further to the general public, ushered in an era where new users were constantly showing up, known as [[Eternal September]]. This includes the LNH, as new readers and writers arrive who never interacted with the original [[rec.arts.comics]] community.
+* '''March:''' Before this point, new users to the [[Internet]] showed up every September as university students gained access, and were taught its customs and mores over the next year until a new wave of newbies showed up. In March 1994, AOL opened up its Internet service, and along with other means of access opening up further and further to the general public, ushered in an era where new users were constantly showing up, known as [[Eternal September]]. This includes the LNH, as new readers and writers arrive who never interacted with the original [[rec.arts.comics]] community.
 * Tensions over crossposting LNH stories boil over as [[Mike Kelly]], who'd created the founding LNHer [[Myk-El]], takes the anti-crossposting side. wReam responds by revealing Myk-El as the long-hinted-at Legion traitor (a parody of the X-Traitor plotline in the 90s X-books) and having Ultimate Ninja kill him. Most of the "Council of Elders" approves this, but Dave Van Domelen objects, writing an issue of ''[[Constellation (series)|Constellation]]'' that retcons Myk-El's death. This all leads to the dissolution of the Council. ''Constellation'' #27 would remain a well-regarded issue even after everyone stopped caring about the [[Usenet]] drama that inspired it, which had quickly become a moot point as...
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 == The Silver Age ==
-[Retcon Hour-1996]
+* '''June:''' [[rec.arts.comics.creative]] is approved. In storytelling terms, this leads to ''[[Retcon Hour]]'', the LNH's most sprawling and ginormous crossover to date, as [[wReamicus Maximus]] and other temporal threats take advantage of the newly recreated net.reality. The Legion traitor [[Contraption Man]] had come from the future to warn about is revealed as Contraption Man himself, the first in a long line of LNH plot resolutions that would make more sense than the Big Two comic plots they parodied. Two new series spin out of ''Retcon Hour'', both of which end up significant:
 ** ''[[Legion of Occult Heroes]]'', by NTB writer [[Paul Hardy]], collides the urban-fantasy-Vertigo-horror feel of the NTB with the LNH's sheer cosmic weirdness. Issue #4 ends up as one of the most influential single issues of all time, tapping the freely metafictional aspects of the LNH for intense philosophical drama.
 ** ''Constellation'' is succeeded by the long-running and influential series ''[[Dvandom Force]]''.
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 === 2000 ===
-* January, 1: The Millennium happens. Nothing much changes, as tireless engineers had worked to prevent the Millennium Bug. Several LNH stories, such as ''[[Limp-Asparagus Lad]]'' Annual #1 and the ''[[Alt.Riders]]'' Year 2000 Special, are written to commemorate this event.
+* '''January 1:''' The Millennium happens. Nothing much changes, as tireless engineers had worked to prevent the Millennium Bug. Several LNH stories, such as ''[[Limp-Asparagus Lad]]'' Annual #1 and the ''[[Alt.Riders]]'' Year 2000 Special, are written to commemorate this event.
 * ''The Team'' begins
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 * [[Sig.ago]] go boom.
-* September 11, 2001: the [[They Might Be Giants]] album ''Mink Car'' releases. Other world-historical events occur as well. (See ''[[Limp-Asparagus Lad]]'' #55, below.)
+* '''September 11:''' the [[They Might Be Giants]] album ''Mink Car'' releases. Other world-historical events occur as well. (See ''[[Limp-Asparagus Lad]]'' #55, below.)
 * Amabel Holland follows up ''Teenfactor'' with the grim and dramatic ''[[Pearly White (series)|Pearly White]]'' but drops it after a few issues, concentrating on the absurd and comedic ''[[Journey Into Irrelevancy]]'' instead. This begins the slow pendulum swing back to traditional LNHian comedy.
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 == The Post-Beige Age ==
 === 2013 ===
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 == The Lull Age ==
 === 2016 ===
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 * A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic novel bat virus] spreads across the world, and consequences ensue. Arthur posts a couple little stories commenting on the state of the world &ndash; ''[[Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!]]'' #1 and #2.
 == The Sabertooth Age ==
-=== 2020 ===
+* '''October 14th:''' WikiLull finally gets resolved with ''[[WikiLull EXHALE]]''. To set this up, Drew writes a goofy, off-the-cuff story, ''[[Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!]]'' #3, which plays with the status quo Arthur had set up months earlier.
 * ''[[Hungry, Hungry Sabertooths!]]'' explodes into tremendous activity, becoming a channel for the pent-up energy of quarantine, with over forty issues posted in the first month and a half.

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 == The September Age ==
-[1996-2000]
+=== 1997 ===
-* 1996-1997: As the moderation of [[RACC]] makes the community more stable and self-sustaining, the level of newbies joining accelerates, especially those adolescents who would've been too young to participate in the early university-based era. This includes [[Chris Ireland]], [[Jesse Willey]], [[Amabel Holland]] and a number of her friends. RACC's existing culture cannot easily absorb them, and there is a significant amount of cultural clash.
+* As the moderation of [[RACC]] makes the community more stable and self-sustaining, the level of newbies joining accelerates, especially those adolescents who would've been too young to participate in the early university-based era. This includes [[Chris Ireland]], [[Jesse Willey]], [[Amabel Holland]] and a number of her friends. RACC's existing culture cannot easily absorb them, and there is a significant amount of cultural clash.
 * The clash hits its apex when Chris Ireland resurrects [[Sig.Lad]] without permission in ''[[Journey Inside a Ninja]]''.

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 == The Dark Age ==
-[2001-2007]
+=== 2001 ===
 * Posting slows down significantly, as [[Usenet]] begins a slow fall from relevance. Those writers who remain end up leading the direction of the LNH as a whole.