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History of the Eclipse brand and board
I don't know when I first came up with the Eclipse name, but the first
ever logo was finalized on Feburary 4th, 2020. I may have had the
brand in mind since mid-late 2019 or maybe even earlier.
The first public mention of Eclipse was slightly earlier, on Feburary
3th, 2020, as part of the
Computer Monitor Textures
addon I made for Garry's Mod. It was used for the nepOS textures under
the name of Eclipse Web Browser.
I would like to eventually have a web browser under the Eclipse brand,
but unlike in that addon, it's probably not going to be based off of
Firefox 68 ESR.
After then it was pretty much radio silence for the Eclipse brand. I
may have showed it off on a Discord server during this time, but
anything from that time is long gone. The only thing I can find was a
mention of Eclipse Web Browser during an online RP on April 1st,
2020.
January 5th, 2021 is the date me and Kouto forked ABXD 3.0 to begin
making the board. After looking around for a domain, we obtained
ownership of the eclipse.cx domain on January 7th, 2021. The reasoning
for Kouto was that CX is a smiley, while for me, it just sounded like
the perfect domain.
After a short launch period on January 10th, 2021, we realised that
ABXD 3.0 couldn't provide the features I wanted and we scrapped it,
instead going for phpBB 3.3. This was when win32 was given co-owner as
Kouto temporarily left at this stage.
Early morning on January 11th, 2021 was the phpBB board was first
installed. I had to do some configuration with win32, and the board
actually became live on early morning on January 12th, 2021.
Kouto soon came back and helped set up the board, helping with titles
and descriptions of some of the boards. Kouto also helped us get
Theodor, the developer of Mypal on the board.
Kouto had admin at this point, but eventually resigned from an admin
position, leaving just me and win32. After this, everything seemed to
be going good.
Until June 17th, 2021.
The original history here was wrong, it was what I had thought
happened, but not what really happened. I don't want to get very
detailed into what happened as it should stay in the past.
It was mostly a miscommunication that caused me to overreact, and when
I was told the real reason, it had already been too far to turn back.
Basically win32 retaliated against Kouto, and gave a reason, but no
proof. Knowing Kouto's past I had assumed their enemies had gotten to
win32, but it wasn't that. This is what caused the split and various
members to leave.
This has been a summarized overview of the history of Eclipse. I tried
to go into detail where it was needed without making this too too
long. Hope it was interesting to read.