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1 It's been around since October 1st 2001
2 Jay is the owner
3 Rob was the original partner, since then Ryan has joined the team
4 Everyone else who has written is a 'writer'
5 Except Lawrence
6 We once had a 'life' section, a 'movies' and 'music' section
7 This is version 7
8 We only get 20mb storage on a shit server, but have no intention to upgrade
9 We were once fierce rivals with TRL (The Rocket Launcher)
10 The TON crew and Alan Edkins were once accused of Industrial Espionage
11 An unnamed member (Rob) was once accused of taking drugs
12 This is the 149th Article made public
13 Many more have failed to pass quality and/or spelling checks
14 It is coded in Notepad
15 We have a 3% productivity rating
16 The current official number of 'fans' is 1
17 We're have eternal pride and love for our work
18 We would sell out for the right price
19 It's not as high as you think
20 All KENt's files are stored on BTopenworld
21 These days pictures are stored on NTL accounts to save space
22 Randy is about to take over LAN Central
23 We were the official sponser of TON Magic
24 Last year our costs were £0 and our profits were £0
25 There wil never be any advertising on the site
26 Research has indicated we will hit 200 articles by March 2003
27 Research also showed we had already hit 200
28 Nobody knows who to believe
29 We have caused alot of controversy
30 We strive to be up-to-date and contemporary whilst having a hint of retro appeal
31 Once opon a time all files were stored on NTL
32 We use iFrames, but not Frames
33 We don't tolerate Netscape, AOL or Mac users
34 The bin is full of cans
35 We except donations
36 No one is safe from being wrote about, or having their photo shown on the site
37 We cannot be held liable for anything, including our own actions
38 The name - the online net - has no meaning
39 We will write about any subject, any event .. pretty much anything
40 There is no censorship
41 But there is also no pornography
42 If we were a film we'd be a PG going on 18
43 TON was free
44 So was Randy
45 We have eyes in many places
46 The design is now compatible with those running 800x600, but it wasn't always so
47 Suggestions are sometimes welcome
48 There has never been more than 3 updates in one day
49 Any big events in the local community are usually written about by someone here
50 The original colour scheme was orange and blue
51 Since then we have gradually lost more and more colour
52 We've only been archiving updates since the beginning of 2002
53 Everything before that is lost forever
54 Nobody has written about the prom yet
55 We have offended less than 10 known people in our history
56 We're working on making it more
57 Everybody associated with The Online Net lives in Ipswich, Kesgrave, Bucklesham or Brightwell
58 We once had a 'sister' site, The Offline Net, run by Ryan
59 http://www.theofflinenet.co.uk, is now known as KENT's
60 We currently do not offer merchandise or sourvenirs
61 You can't tour TON HQ either
62 We once temporarily stole a design from Simon J's closet
63 We did apologise
64 The articles were once named by their title, now just a number
65 We have profiles of seemingly random people from our high school years
66 The longest ever article was written by Ryan, or Jameson.. I can't remember
67 It definately wasn't Rawson though
68 The First Great Golfball Challenge was voted best article of all time
69 The main page used to be main.html, not main.htm
70 It took 3 days to decide on the name
71 We do not support communism
72 Updates range from every day to weeks between
73 We are not yet a household name
74 Just because we say we will do something, it doesn't mean we actually will
75 It would take you at least 7 hours to read every article
76 I don't recommend you trying that
77 The files take up 13.3 MB excluding external images
78 There isn't really 100 things to write about TON
79 We do claim to be original
80 There are few depths we refuse to sink to
81 Rob is still working on the same article he was working on last month
82 The Features section used to be Non-Articles
83 We've cut down on alot of crap, but it's still a word you would associate with TON
84 We don't tolerate poor spelling and grammar.
85 Rarely will there be any links to other sites
86 We like photos
87 Only Jay and Ryan have the power to update
88 Soon to be joined by Randy
89 Jameson is the most popular writer in our history
90 Rawson has left twice, but returned both times
91 Rawson has also had the most articles written about him on the site
92 We aim to still be around in 20 years time
93 We constantly have new ideas for features and articles, but less regularly do anything about it
94 Rob is the least productive by admition
95 We belive content is more important than trying to be 'flashy'
96 There is alot planned for the site in 2003
97 We very rarely show unedited or unoriginal images on the site
98 It's going to cost £20 to keep the site up in October this year
99 We don't do petty insults
100 Craig Shimmon is a twat



Written by Jay
j666.16814.k00@ntlworld.com