History
From wiki.dod.net
Our Humble Origins
Birth of an Idea
The Founders
The Name
The Timeline
1998
The first version of Project DoD's hosting project started in 1998. Project DoD was originally formed to provide a hosting service for the underground music scene. Christopher Mooney and James Luedke began the hosting project as a way to give back to the punk and hardcore scene.
In the early days, hosting with the collective was not free. Everyone in the collective payed $60.00 to help off set the hosting costs. Christopher Mooney and James Luedke financially floated Project DoD at for the first few years. The first server cost $11,000.00 and the minimal bandwidth was free.
1999
Shortly after the project started Project DoD began to host activists and other artists. In 1999 Jeff Sleeper, a long time friend and one of the original Quake players, soon joined the project as an admin. In the summer of 1999 Christopher Mooney and James Luedke moved to California, and so did darkside, the original server purchased and built in Maine. During the move all of dod.net's users were pushed over onto deathstar, which was still hosted on a sparcstatoin 5 running Solaris 2.6 at cyberTours. That little box almost died under the load, so our first priority was to find darkside a new home.
James Luedke and Christopher Mooney made friends with Michael Edwards from Santa Cruz, CA. Mr. Edwards was the founder of a business called Sane.net in Santa Cruz, and in exchange for the office space to host darkside, we let Sane.net use our T1 line. We purchased the t1 service -- 1.5 Megabits of bandwidth -- from Tycho networks for $850.00 a month. Christopher Mooney also payed this out of pocket using what
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Project DoD Passes the Public Support Test
The biggest news in this year is that we -- after five long years -- passed the IRS public support test and gained recognition as a 501(c)(3) publicly supported nonprofit organization. That is, we were no longer under the probationary period some nonprofits must go through. Since being in the advanced determination period held Project DoD's fund raising efforts back, this remains one of the most important events in Project DoD's history. We are free to pursue donations, grants, membership fees, employees, and other benefits of 501(c)(3) nonprofits with no risk to Project DoD or our donors. For more information please go to the About Page.
2009
2010
Archive.org
We love archive.org. You can look at all of Project DoD's pages from the very start by going to the dod.net Archive on archive.org. Our personal favorites are Our First Webpage and The First Version of our Current Design. You should play with the archive and search around. Some of this stuff is very embarrassing, but we were just kids. Right after September 11th, 2001 you can see our page. We were trying to put all our efforts into the Anti-war Project, but the climate lead to lots of threats to us, and we eventually let the domain expire. The rest of the pages are lots of fun to look at to see our evolution.
We leave you with the page that started it all. Before archive.org, when we were in High School and playing classic Quake. We had a clan known as Daemons ofThe Damned, and James Luedke put the original website up on his personal web space at cyberTours. Years after cyberTours collapsed some of the founders put the original content back up and archive.org did a pass on it. The original Daemons ofThe Damned page can be found here. It's _very_ incomplete, but it's all we have left. Enjoy!
You can also see some of early side projects: anti-war.org animal-liberation.org
Stories
The following is a list of interesting stories that have taken place over the years. They are sometimes funny, and sometimes very serious, but they all happened to Project DoD.
