Antioch Forever

Community Timeline

Approx. 14,000 B.C.

• The first typh's mom joke is inscribed in a cave near what is now the city of Cantabria, Spain.
• Starcraft: Ghost begins development.

1998

• April 1st—Starcraft is released, forestalling the normal social development of millions.
• June—Auspex releases The Antioch Chronicles, Episode I, the first fan-made campaign to not suck.
• November 30th—Brood War is released, infesting its way into our hearts.

1999

• June 22nd—Auspex (with newcomers ZeusLegion, Ytse Jam, and Macbeth) releases Episode II, the last fan-made campaign to not suck.
• August 14th—Production officially begins on Episode III.
• October 24th—Auspex creates the Original Forum, a place for religious zealots, political zealots, and Protoss Zealots. Game balance and the nature of being are discussed with equal frequency and fervor.
• Everyone waits eagerly for Episode III.

2000

• August 22nd—God gets tired of the religious debates and the original forum bites it.
• August 31st—The community moves to CoolBoards, although not everyone gets the message.
• December 1st—Auspex formally founds Auspex Studios and makes Antioch its flagship project (moving the site to it from Tech-Base while he was at it).
• Everyone waits eagerly for Episode III.

2001

• Everyone waits eagerly for Episode III.
• January 28th—The forum moves to EZBoard and decides to stay a while.
• March—Zeus and the Blue Team start up Subliminal Games.
• Everyone waits eagerly for Episode III.
• Matt starts TPC, a place where Antiochers can play Starcraft without getting Zergling-rushed by middle school students with bad grammar (besides Shervin).
• July 5th—Episode III bites it.
• July 16th—Episode III doesn't bite it.
• November 12th—Episode III bites it.
• Zeus releases the script and a bunch of other scraps and reveals his plans for Antioch Reborn.

2002

• March—Mason Wheeler leaves for his two-year mission.
• July 3rd—Warcraft III is released. Everyone complains it isn't as good as Starcraft but plays it anyway.
• The EZBoard community chest runs dry, and EZBoard embarks on an ambitious campaign to pummel each and every forumer to death with pop-up advertisements.
• October 1st—Everyone gets sick of the EZBoard and the community moves to Ashenvale, with phpBB2, on Avatar's dime. The forums are under the Subliminal Games banner.

2003

• April 1st—Antioch Wars is released and everyone gets to play with themselves in a whole new way.
• April 30th—Everyone decides it's about time we got our own domain name and site, so we wipe the slate clean one last triumphant time and start anew as Antioch Forever. The fire still burns.
• July 1st—The Frozen Throne is released. Everyone complains it isn't as good as Brood War but plays it anyway.
• Subliminal Games too bites it. "It" at this point looks like an inside-out Hydralisk.
• October 11th—The wiki goes up.

2004

• March 3rd—Falcon Warrior turns 14.
• March 22nd—Mason Wheeler returns from his mission, which no one seriously expected him to do.
• October 24th—The community turns five years old and already has daddy issues. Will probably end up a stripper.
• November 23rd—World of Warcraft is released. People injure selves in mad rush to give Blizzard money.

2005

• March 3rd—Falcon Warrior turns 14.
• September 5th—MG leaves for his mission. Everyone imagines we'll have flying cars and neurolink computers and fusion power and Martian bases and Starcraft II by the time he finally returns in two years.
• Nothing (pictured right).

2006

• March 3rd—Falcon Warrior turns 14.
• March 24th—Starcraft: Ghost gets Antioch'd as Blizzard catches up to the rest of the world in not caring about it.
• Nothing (pictured above-right).
• June-ish—Zeus creates an Antioch Chronicles page on Wikipedia with the full support of typhoon.
• December 1st—typhoon creates a Hanukkah theme for the main page. Flyspeck and the international banking community rejoice.
• December 2nd—Zeus laments that the Antioch Chronicles property is being associated with things like religion and humor.
• December 3rd—Everyone's like, "Wait, what's an Antioch Chornicles? I come here for the dick jokes."
• December 19th—Zeus demands, under threat of legal douchery, that all copyrighted Antioch materials be removed from the site.

2007

• January 16th—Blizzard releases the World of Warcraft expansion set, The Burning Crusade.
• January 17th—The U.S. Treasury shuts down and transfers all money-printing operations to Blizzard.
• March 3rd—Falcon Warrior turns 14.
• May 19th—Starcraft II is announced, foretokening the End of Times. Also, the entire nation of Korea pops one.
• May 28th—Auspex decends from heaven and relaunches the Antioch Chronicles web site, with a nod to us as the official fan site and forums.
• July 5th—Someone set up the forums the bomb. BLIZZ PLZ FIX.
• July 9th—Antioch Forever forums, take six. The embers still smolder?
• August 28th—MG returns from his mission, which no one seriously expected him to do.

2008

• March 3rd—Falcon Warrior turns 14.
• March 31st—We migrate to a new host, Blue Host, since the old one, PowWeb, sucked harder than a Star Wars prequel.
• Okay, maybe not that hard, but pretty hard.
• April 1st—Starcraft is released. Ten fucking years ago.

2009

• Blizzard probably released like five World of Warcraft expansion sets.
• October 24th—The community turns 10 years old. We weren't fucking around when we called it Antioch Forever.
• December 25th—We move to antioch.snow-fall.com. We were just fucking around when we called it antiochforever.com.

2010

• February 17th—The Starcraft II beta is released. Some people get in, the rest require more vespene gas.
• July 27th—MOTHERFUCKING STARCRAFT II, MOTHERFUCKERS.
• Alevice wishes a happy birthday to every known living organism.
• Except Falcon Warrior. Who's 14.

2011

2012

2013

• March 12th—Heart of the Swarm. Efficient. Recommend integration into Starcraft II. Blah blah blah essence.
• Everyone decides to get married.
• June 26th—The Supreme Court strikes down DoMA. So...how you doin', Stoker?

2014

• October 24th—The community turns 15 years old. IN YOUR FACE, CAMPAIGN CREATIONS.
• Wait, Campaign Creations is still around? Really?

2015

• May 22nd—Lucid, Alevice, Dark T Zeratul, dine, and friends release Antioch Remastered, a port of the original Antioch Chronicles campaigns to Starcraft II. This becomes the first forum project to be completed literally ever, including the actual Antioch Chronicles campaign, the completed portions of which were released before the forum was created.
• Your move, Campaign Creations.
• June 2nd—Blizzard releases Heroes of the Storm, previously called Blizzard All-Stars, Blizzard DOTA, and Weaksauce Dota 2.
• June 26th—Team Antioch announces Episode III. They're the heroes Antioch needs, not the ones it deserves.
• July 13th—Zeus Legion and Auspex Turmalis (re-)join Team Antioch. Time collapses on itself and sends everyone back to 1999. Make sure you have a 90 MHz Pentium or equivalent and an SVGA video card that supports 640x480 at 256 colors!
• October 21st—Cubs win the World Series.
• November 10th—Legacy of the Void is released. Confirmed at last: Bob is Duran.

2016

• August 18th—Server funkiness strikes again and we lose a year or so of forum posts.
• November 2nd—Cubs actually win the World Series.

2017

• March 25th—Starcraft Remastered is announced.
• April 18th—Starcraft v1.18 is released, the first patch in eight years. It makes the game free and improves compatibility with modern operating systems.
• August 14th—Starcraft Remastered is released.

2018

• May 4th—Team Antioch releases Episode III.

2019

• May 30th—Team Antioch announces its next project, Moons of Shakuras.
• October 24th—The community turns 20 years old.

2020

• January 28th—Blizzard releases Warcraft III Reforged to great critical acclaim.
• February 5th—We move to antiochforever.org.
• October 24th—The community is old enough to drink.
• Nothing (pictured in 2005).

2021

• May 25th—We don't go an entire year without any forum posts. Thanks a lot, Phoenix!
• May 26th—Someone finally mentions Covid. Thanks a lot, dine.

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Edited Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 at 2:16 AM by Dark T Zeratul.

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