100 Things About: the online net 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 |