Sonic Classic
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For information the actual community rather than history, see SClassic Subculture.
Sonic Classic is an online community made up of, among other things, Sonic the Hedgehog fans. Today, it is a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as Sonic 2 Beta and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.
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Early History
The Beginning
On January 3rd 1999, Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background.
The discovery of Sonic 2 Beta ROM marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what Sonic 2 was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.
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SSonicNET
Leaving ezBoard
Although ezBoard had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of Gold Community forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named SSonicNET was run by members of the communty Sonic McTails and Alexbt. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of Area 51 and a few other sites. Pelord eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to Invision Power's Hosting, and was redesigned.
The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.
Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going ILVE on February 16, 2003, and has remained on SSonicNET's hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.
Bumpy Beginning
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.
SSS
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.
Sonic Classic Moves On
sclassic.net
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer Scarred Sun made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch. SHIT was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th.
Currently, the Sonic Classic Cooperative has two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and is planning to launch a third site, ASPRS, before the end of 2005.
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.
On May 12, 2005, Turbokiller/BorisZ decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.
A Retro Endeavor
Sonic Retro
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, Sonic Retro. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, Scarred Sun & Alexbt (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move. Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.
The Fun Continues
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.
On July 14th, The Virus decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. Scarred Sun announced her resignation to the staff, and Alexbt became Interim Server Adminstrator. The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.
Scarred Sun later resumed her duties as Server Admin in later July/Early August.
On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day.
To be Classic Again
Following random hackings, moderator UltraVR offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. The move happened in mid-December 2006. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. Scarred Sun stepped down from head administrator, and Ashura2k was elected her replacement for the future of the board. Plans are currently in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site. The site has since abandoned the old name and theme and is now going under the name Pixel Tanker, in honor of pre-PlayStation era gaming.