What yr did SVTP start
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I believe November of 2000.
Here are some quotes from an old 2003 thread that discussed the birth of SVTPerformance.
Ripper
It all started when I started posting on Fordvschevy.com. And these two brothers needed help on a site that they were trying to make for Dakota r/t's ! At first it started out great. I got along with them and I was more or less secluded because at the time was going through Chemo Therapy and was not allowed outside after my cycles. So, while I was stuck inside I started helping them with there website. My dad just got me photoshop and I had Microsoft Frontpage. And they bought a UBB board ! Well working together we learned alot. I learned how to upload stuff to servers and how DNS and everything works and later on even learned how to do everything with the ubb board ! Well for 2 or 3 months every night we would work on that site and just bounce ideas and graphics off each other. And it was finally made. Dodge R/T history- Charger R/T, Coronet R/T, Dakota R/T | DodgeRTclub.com. It quickly became flame bait and the lightning owners came over. There was one guy that asked me to help him with a site of his own. BlkSVTTruck on here who contacted me on AIM and we started bouncing ideas off each other. He was very pumped and at the time had another buddy by the name of ZorPrime that helped with everything also. We then started doing everything. Dave bought a UBB Board and I started making the graphics and HTML. This site started out as just a project while I was sick fighting Hodgkins Disease to pass the time and to learn a new skill. Because of this site I know have very good knowledge of alot of stuff like html and photoshop.. There is nothing that I made originally left on the site but I still smile everytime I come in here to see what Steve has made it. He has taken it to a new level. There has been alot of fights and alot of other stuff on the board over the years but truthfully i've still never found a place on the net even half this cool.. This was a short summarized version. I could prolly go on for days about it ! But I can't stand reading more than 30 lines!
SweetSVT99
Nick pretty much summed everything up. I had nothing to do with the startup of this site, in fact I started as a moderator. (though I was here the first day the site started). I eventually become an administrator, then went on to acquire the ownership of the domain and webserver. From that point on I have made many small changes, and a few major ones in an effort to improve the overall quality of the site.
Here are some quotes from an old 2003 thread that discussed the birth of SVTPerformance.
Ripper
It all started when I started posting on Fordvschevy.com. And these two brothers needed help on a site that they were trying to make for Dakota r/t's ! At first it started out great. I got along with them and I was more or less secluded because at the time was going through Chemo Therapy and was not allowed outside after my cycles. So, while I was stuck inside I started helping them with there website. My dad just got me photoshop and I had Microsoft Frontpage. And they bought a UBB board ! Well working together we learned alot. I learned how to upload stuff to servers and how DNS and everything works and later on even learned how to do everything with the ubb board ! Well for 2 or 3 months every night we would work on that site and just bounce ideas and graphics off each other. And it was finally made. Dodge R/T history- Charger R/T, Coronet R/T, Dakota R/T | DodgeRTclub.com. It quickly became flame bait and the lightning owners came over. There was one guy that asked me to help him with a site of his own. BlkSVTTruck on here who contacted me on AIM and we started bouncing ideas off each other. He was very pumped and at the time had another buddy by the name of ZorPrime that helped with everything also. We then started doing everything. Dave bought a UBB Board and I started making the graphics and HTML. This site started out as just a project while I was sick fighting Hodgkins Disease to pass the time and to learn a new skill. Because of this site I know have very good knowledge of alot of stuff like html and photoshop.. There is nothing that I made originally left on the site but I still smile everytime I come in here to see what Steve has made it. He has taken it to a new level. There has been alot of fights and alot of other stuff on the board over the years but truthfully i've still never found a place on the net even half this cool.. This was a short summarized version. I could prolly go on for days about it ! But I can't stand reading more than 30 lines!
SweetSVT99
Nick pretty much summed everything up. I had nothing to do with the startup of this site, in fact I started as a moderator. (though I was here the first day the site started). I eventually become an administrator, then went on to acquire the ownership of the domain and webserver. From that point on I have made many small changes, and a few major ones in an effort to improve the overall quality of the site.
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When did Sid come into the picture? Or is he also SweetSVT99?
No, Travis (Sid) bought Steve out about 5 years or so ago. He could give you a certain date for sure.
According to whois:
Domain Name: SVTPERFORMANCE.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: Domain Names | The World's Largest Domain Name Registrar - GoDaddy.com
Name Server: GINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: GREG.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 10-sep-2011
Creation Date: 09-nov-2000
Expiration Date: 09-nov-2013
So November 9, 2000. :beer:
Domain Name: SVTPERFORMANCE.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: Domain Names | The World's Largest Domain Name Registrar - GoDaddy.com
Name Server: GINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: GREG.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 10-sep-2011
Creation Date: 09-nov-2000
Expiration Date: 09-nov-2013
So November 9, 2000. :beer:
We should all know this is when svtp truly came to be.
i started lurking in 2000, there was like 2000 members. i believe this site merged with another. there used to be an SVTPerformance.net that bombed.
shit here was so different back then. not too many old timers still around.
shit here was so different back then. not too many old timers still around.
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So it isn't some random date in 2012 I should be afraid of.
It's November 9, 2013 that the Sun explodes.
What will we do?
Good info.
That's when the Terminator was born and SVTP got flooded. Before that, it was the government creating it :-D
War…...
What site merged? I dont recall, and I am an old timer. Correct, things were different back then...way different.
That's funny. I used to post on fordvschevy a lot. I also remember the stories about the Dakota RT brothers. Who says the internet is big?
in a thread a while back, i was asking what had happened to that particular site, because it vanished and he said it merged with this one. i dont know any particulars about it tho.
I joined back in November 2000 when SVTP just started. I was using 95rcobra back then as my username. But the whole SVT Mustang craze started back in 1993 with the first Cobra. No question things were different back then.
so, you have two usernames?
I remember first coming here in 2002 watching grainy videos of Nitrous Pete's red Terminator. Memories...
The sun won't explode. I fixed it. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
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I smell brownie points for you junior detective.
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