looking at that hypercolour dream cake had me wondering..
then after lots of wondering, about 15mins ago i realised it was 2011.. when the antrx domain was created, i had the date tattooed on my scrotum so i would be able to remember. i have aged quite a bit since the site was created and my scrotum has become increasingly wrinkly - it took a lot of ironing (hence the 15min delay to posting) and if my calculations are correct, antrx.com (the domain, not the site) is 8yrs and 7 months old
however antrx was, for a short while kindly hosted by adamj when he took over teamnse, making antrx.teamnse.com
you would think i'd know more about my own site, but alas, i didn't think it to be important when i was such a young whipper snapper. so i decided to undertake some more detective work to confirm my thoughts.
the wayback machine unfortunately only has one record of teamnse.com/antrx/ which is
here but i know that antrx was on adamj's server in south melbourne for a while before that.
for those that don't know their gregorian calendar arithmetic, february * august / (january + october + may) = 10yrs
to back up my findings, i created the incarnation of antrx as seen on the wayback machine in my ex girlfriends bedroom in the weeks after i returned to melbourne from a short stint in brisbane in the middle of 2001. it turns out i was creating the site when she was off cheating on me with a man she happily told me had a much larger penis than i (13" she says, none of us can compete with that, except maybe nissman - but i don't want to find out thanks) but he had bucked teeth and was ugly as fuck so other than starting my long drawn out hate for all things [language filter smackdown]ty and female, it also etched the creation of antrx - the honda terrorists, into my brain.
yes thats right - the honda terrorists (due to the nissan vs honda mentality in the usa). the way i came up with the name antrx is that i wanted a word with the letters T, R and X in it. after hours pouring through the dictionary, it hit me.. anthrax! i tried to register anthrax.com but conveniently this is owned by the awesome band of the same name. who would call their band anthrax i thought? what a bunch of assholes stealing my domain! but thats ok, i can be creative
and difficult at the same time, i'll just pull some vowels out and make it difficult for people to say.. hrmm.. nthrax.. no, sounds pretty fucking homo.. anthrax.. oh fuck.. thats the whole word again.. err... what do? oh yeh! antrx!! winraar! also, 'the honda terrorists' was dropped post september 11, which as you would all know, happened in 2001.
for those that aren't any good at the calendar arithmetic mentioned above, 2011 - 2001 = 10yrs
convenient speculation on the name from members over the years has turned this into
australian
nissan
trx err.. club (thats antrxc you noobs!) however it gave a bit more meaning to the seeming randomness of the name and i was a happy creator/architect. i then went and fucked up neo's head and sent him on his way telling him he's not the first to enter antrx, there were many before him that all failed! lol.
so if you have failed to pick up on what i'm getting at, to end my short history lesson, i am here to proclaim that this year,
antrx is 10 years old!i realise antrx is no longer the hive of activity that it was in its prime, but it obviously holds a special place in people's automotive hearts as even after they have long sold their u12, they continue to visit antrx. i happily encourage this. in fact, feel free to turn the off topic board into something akin to 4chan
without porn lol.
so thank you for everyone past and present that has been involved. there have been lots of friends made, keyboard warriors laughed at (probably including myself when i was younger), speeding fines paid and money thrown on cars. it's been a lot of fun.