Milestones in The Green Rooms’ History
August 22, 1998: I’m one of the featured guests at The AD’s Office’s New Authors Chat and answer a question about personal web pages by saying that I’m too techno ignorant to have one. Drovar, upon meeting me for the first time, very kindly offers to host me and put one together. Thrilled, I take him up on it. It would be great having all of my slash in whatever order I feel like and to have a home for my X-Files gen fic, which isn’t archived anywhere.
August - October 1998: Drovar gets sent file after file of fic, about 50, and offers me a variety of site colors, formats, and servers. Drovar qualifies for sainthood.
October 31 - September 1, 1998: The Green Room version 1.0 officially opens for business.
December 30, 1998: I post and have Drovar archive my first non-X-Files fanfic story, the Once a Thief story "Working Together," thus taking one hesitant step out onto the slippery slope to fandom polygamy.
January 20, 1999: I post and have Drovar archive my first Two Guys story, "Taking Chances," thus officially taking a third fandom spouse. I write it because I can, because having my own site means that I can archive rare, fandomless slash myself.
June 14, 1999: I post and have Drovar archive my first Pike and Benny story, "Plush Things You Hold," another slash story from a fandom that lack a fan base. That starts the only series I’ve written completely out of linear order, which is no doubt why it’s also my largest series. The Green Room gives me the opportunity to have one place on the ‘net where they’re archived in the order I intend.
And I am officially multi-fandom now, especially as Chris Carter had started to ruin The X-Files for me during March and just kept on going from there.
July 19, 1999: I post and have Drovar archive my first due South story, "Catch and Release." It’s far from my last, and due South becomes the second fandom I’m most prolific in.
November 5, 1999 - present: The list of fandoms I work in keeps growing.
September 2000: I start learning HTML and take over as webmaster of my site. I immediately begin to tweak things now that I can.
September 26, 2000: I set up a What’s New page.
October 10, 2000: Thanks to Te, I get my first banners.
October 16, 2000: I add a counter.
October 21, 2000: I create a recommendations page, my Seasonal Suggestions page, and start adding pictures to my site.
October 31, 2000: The two-year anniversary of The Green Room version 1.0. I had no reason to think I’d ever need to move....
December 2, 2000: I add a GuestBook.
January 10, 2001: Access to a scanner leads to an explosion of pictures on the site and the "who the hell are these people?" pages for my X-Men stories.
March 9, 2001: I create my own banners.
March 17, 2001: I am one of the first victims of the Tripod Massacre. Summarily TOSed, my files are deleted. Over two years of work gone in a moment. I have no file back-ups. I am walking wounded and wonder if it’s worth the effort of rebuilding again.
March 17, 2001 - present: E-mails of support and generous offers of help convince me that it is.
March 20, 2001: Oops! It turns out that the TOSing was just an innocent mistake! Too little, too late, Tripod. But thanks for giving me back my files at least.
March 25, 2001: After a week of feverish work, I officially open The Green Room version 2.0 for business, and it becomes the site I will update from now on. No more pop-up ads!
April 5, 2001: I start a LiveJournal.
Even I don’t know what’s next. <g> Stick around and see?