About
From J2
Why do we have an about page on the Wiki?
Oh, and that statement should TOTALLY go on the discussion of this page instead. HAW HAW!
www.joe.to
Founded in 1995 by the ultra-neoconservative flag waving yellow ribbon-on-his-gas-guzzling–pickup-truck driving Joe Lira. It began as a front for Joe’s online gambling addiction but later grew into a political hotspot for Democratic talking heads to spread their righteous propaganda throughout the internet and its many many tubes of varying sizes.
This website has gone through many changes, most of which have been utterly pointless and a huge waste of not only the webmasters time but the visitors’ time as well. And I base this on the fact that the website was actually a working time machine between 1998 and 1999. But all the time machine did was lock users in place for about 54 minutes. 54 minutes because joe believes this number is evil and will bring the souls of the damned into fruition if one is held immobile for exactly that length of time. Joe was collecting souls to help his reelection campaign. He lost to Hillary Clinton in 2009 because of this flux in the time capacitor caused by stealing too many souls or some shit.
in joe's words pulled from forums
- 1995 i register the domain
- 1996-1998 i run a popular telnet based chatroom and give out websites + shell accounts
- the fbi confiscates the server because someone i gave a shell account to stole documents from some company and put them on my server or something like that (i never got all the details)
- joe.to is down for a few years. i try counter-strike early beta and it sucks. i most play D2 and Q3F. there is no joe.to
- 2001 i'm playing D2 and get corpse-popped and lose everything, a nice kid helps me out and gives me some replacement items. we become friends and he tells me to try counter-strike again. i try it and it's very fun. but the servers are all laggy or have idiot admins. so i pay $400/month and spend $2000 on a server for my living room. i figure out how to change de_dust from 24 to 32 players and for a little while i have the 3rd most popular cs server in the world, 32/32 pretty much 24/7 in my living room. i put phpbb on the server so people can apply for admin or appeal bans or make suggestions for the server
- 2001-2003 the server is very popular for years and joe.to grows fast. we also have 3 of the most popular NS servers in the world and the forum usually has 20-40 people on during primetime hours. 32+32+32+32+32 people on joe.to game servers much of the day. i play CS and NS for 3-5 hours every day. the CS server has 50+ highly customized plugins plus very carefully chosen custom maps and a very large community of regular players making it probably the best CS server in the world.
- 2003 i can't afford the $400/month anymore and the cs server moves to a friends T1 connection. people are complaining a lot about lag and the server is less popular.
- 2003? steam comes out and the new hlds server breaks adminmod, which was the mod all of our plugins used. the creators of adminmod work nonstop for 48 hours to fix it, and steam updates it again and breaks it. they work nonstop to fix it again and steam updates again and breaks it for the third time in a week. they give up and a couple weeks later adminmod is announced dead. the new steam server browser also has a bug that makes all server ip addresses starting with 200 or higher invisible. so overnight the server went from popular and very customized to invisible with no plugins. within 3 weeks the server is empty 24/7 and i stop playing CS forever. thanks valve!
- i start playing FFXI 24/7 and stop visiting the website or being part of joe.to. knoid and others take over managing the forums
- 2006 i stop playing ffxi and start using the forums again. tf2 comes out and we host that.
that pretty much should bring you up to date. there was tons of other drama in there about other clans that formed here and split off, etc. (ORD, MIA(?), grayden, etc.)
Fun Facts
The line in the simpsons "I call him Gamblore and I will rescue her from his neon claws" is a reference to joe's online gambling alias "Gamblore#The#Money#Man#588". Many of the Simpsons writers frequented www.joe.to in the mid 1990s.
