Subject: Haven History

From: [email-masked] (W. Robert Nelson)
Date: 11 Feb 94 17:17:35 GMT

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		1ST EDITION HAVEN HISTORY
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Haven History and authored by appicable sources and rumors and by
memory.

Sometime in 1988/89 Chris Eleveld aka Hermit was an active member of a local,
dialup chat system called Magic Mirror. This was a small, six line chat 
system which ran off a Apple ][. He wrote the original Haven code as an
eductional project for himself. He denies having written it because he
was addicted to chats.

Magic mirror was a system that was decribed as "fun." Like an ideal
chat. There were very few real rules on Magic Mirror.  In general,
people could do what they pleased, such as swearing.  This system
reflected the way Chris believes a haven should properly be run. There
were a few people with power over others, enough to "keep the peace,"
but not enough so that those who did not have the power felt that they
were being threatened.

The original Haven was patterened after, but not identical to, the
MM chat system that Magic Mirror used. Many of the commands, such
as /p and /c, were patterened after their MM equivalents. In time,
the Haven code became a functional duplicate of MM, but was capable
of handling many more users. Chris also tried to duplicate the power
structure on his own haven with the levels. Unfortunately, this was
abused by those who stole his code to run their own chats.

Magic Mirror has long since been taken down, but the influence it had
on the lives of all haveners is immesurable. I suspect that if it had
not been for Chris's exposure on this system, he would never have
thought of writing the original code for the haven.

The Purdue Haven was born sometime in August 1991. It might have been
early but who cares, no one was on then anyways. The creator of the
orginal Haven was Chris Eleveld also known as Hermit. The chat was
called Hermit's Haven and was originally located on
expert.cc.purdue.edu 2525.

The first real users were Wiz, Hermit and Tony Cogdell. The Haven was a
way to carry on a conversation from across the Cary Quad (A Purdue
Dorm) without actually having to walk to other peoples rooms.

The original Haven had no channels and almost no commands save for /q,
/i, /k, /n and the /who list. The average traffic on the Haven/chat for
the first month was around a max of 5 people at any given time.

During this period of time, the first non-Purdue Haveners arrived.
Aided by Granite, Wonko the Sane, brought a few other people from the
Colorado School of Mines and the second wave of Haveners arrived on the
scene.

The Haven grew, often reaching its 25 person capacity. It was moved
to sage.cc.purdue.edu 2525. Chris Eleveld, knowing he was on academic
probation and not sure of being here the following semester passed the
Haven onto Laura Palmer. Hence Laura Palmer's Haven was born sometime
in December 1991.

Time passed and people with extra power over other users became a
problem.  Rampant kill-fests (getting disconnected by another user)
renamings, /forces (forcing another user to say somethign they did not
really say) and other such nonsense came into play.

The culmination of this came when Jester became very nasty to another
user about her choice of name. The other user (Orlene) threatened to
take the case of 'discrimination' to the Purdue University
Adminstration. Orlene's significant other (Parry, Lord of Darkness)
became upset over this and Port Wars came into being. In other
words Jester was being facetious, and the tension from his
one little act brought upon the Port Wars.

Parry got upset over the whole fiasco, and wrote the Anarchy chat.
Several abusive haveners then caused Wiz, Hawk and BB to crash LP's
Haven and put up the Anti-Haven. The following day BB took down the Anti-Haven
and LP put the original haven back up. Parry then crashes the haven that nite
and puts up Anarchy for the first time. Anarchy then becomes the frame-work
for the Anti-Haven. It set the standard for uncrashable code.

The original Anti-Haven was primitive chatline (more like a MUD)
which was donated by Trev and named it the Anti-Haven.  It had only one
"rule", as compared to the numerous "policies" LP's Haven tried to
enforce.  LP was not "pressured" out of Havening, she quit because she
had more sense than the rest of the haveners.

BB, with the help of Parry, the Lord of Darkness changed the AntiHaven
into a more rubust chatline and added many more luxury command than
what existed on any chatline at that time.

******** BlackBird needs to send me his verison of the Anti-Haven
history as soon as possible or be forced to deal with my pathetic piece
of crap history.  ------ This Anti-Haven had a few nifty features. One,
an administration of three people, namely BlackBird, Hawk, and A_J. Two,
A lack of kill-fests, renaming and forces that upset people in the
past. Three, the administration was dedicated to keep the place from
crashing.

Purdue Admin cracked down on gaming at the university, so the Haven
moved to morose.cc.purdue.edu 2525 a personal machine of one of the
prominent Haven users. Havening lived here for months, until the Purdue
Administration cracked down on their gaming policy even tighter. The
chat was only allowed to run while its administration was not idle.
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At this time Galt's Gulchcame into existence. It was the first chatcode
that included socket tracing features to the general public to ensure
identities of people were valid (now pretty much a standard feature).

To combat the need (or desire to be logged in 24hrs/day) The Coffee
House was put up in slate.mines.colorado.edu 2525. It allowed those who
wanted to chat while the Anti-Haven was down to talk. As the school
year ended and the Anti-Haven was no longer able to run due to its
administration not wanting to be logged in all summer long. The Coffee
House became the summer home of the chatters.

As the 1992-1993 school year came about, the lack of chats became
apparent. CC the administrator of the Coffee House could not keep it
running with the local machine going down all the time. Lorien was
created running out of a random machine at Rose-Hulman. Tenny's
Sancutary on slate.mines.colorado.edu 3333 was also put up in effort to
aid the avid Havening addiction.

In September of 1992 CC moved to University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs and culebra.uccs.edu 2525 became the Coffee House's permanent
home to date.

Also with the influx of newbies, and the older Haveners wanting to have
a sanctuary the Anti-Haven was put up on the last remaining set of
machines to not kick them off, computer science.  The Anti-Haven
existed on serc12.cs.purdue.edu 2525.  Until the cs account it was
running on expired.  The Anti-Haven is still currently looking for a
new home.

Official Haven timelines as told by their various sysops -------------
Sherwood Forest.  written by [email-masked]

After about 2-3 weeks of spring semester 1991, people <Haveners> were
getting really fed up with Killfests, forcefests, and renameing fests.
It was in this climate that Granite, Marble, and myself set out to
replace the Haven with a new chat line.  Since none of us felt that we
were capable of writing all new code, I called Hermit and obtained his
permission to use the Haven code.  We scripted a new login, set down
some policies, and established the Sherwood forest at mentor 2525.
During the 3-4 weeks that Sherwood Forest held, we were subject to
constant bombardment by Parry.  The Forest bounced around between 2525
and 2626 on mentor, and titan.ecn.purdue.edu 2525.  Finally, I <since I
had become the person primarily keeping it up> got fed up with the port
wars and the complaints from everyone.  I took the Forest down and sent
everyone to the Anti-Haven.

Galts Gulch:  written by [email-masked]

Galt's Gulch was put up during early 1992 as a backlash to the power
trips going on with other Havens.  Marble was the mover and shaker
behind the code, and Shabby (the Elusive ?) provided the NeXT for it to
run on (morose.cc.purdue.edu).  Besides having absolutely no passwords,
/p-logging, or hiding abilities, it displayed the port that an
individual was bound to on the local host.  This allowed anyone with an
account also on that host to determine undeniably the indentity of the
caller.

The intent of the Gulch was to provide a safe place for people to go
when they were getting kicked off other chats.  The instigating event
was an evening when Marble was being repeatedly thrown off another chat
by a drunk sysop for having a "bad mouth".

CoffeeHouse:  Written by [email-masked]

CC to date was the only person who obtained he code from the author
before running a chat. Other chat used Hermit code, but they usually
received permission to run after they stole the code and had run the
place for a while. Because CC had the code in an open directory
Marble stole the code. The code then appeared in various places
from Galt's Gulch to a few other pirate chats.

The code was used for one purpose only at first: for the SEDS Haven,
which was established by CC to aid in the communication of SEDS
(Students for the Exploration and Development of Space).  Then, later,
CC got permission from Chris (Hermit) to use it as a 'Haven'.  This was
in January, 1992.  The original Coffee House was nothing but straight
Hermit code, and over the next 9 months or so, CC has added to and
deleted from the code to make it more or less ANTI-Havenish, since this
is the style everyone likes.  The Coffee House officially was brought
down on October 7, 1992 right after midnight due to the return of the
ANTI-Haven.  Most were sorry to see it leave, and many have begged CC
to bring it back, but CC felt that there was no use in having two chat
lines running at the same time and having people flipping back and
forth to follow two different conversations.

The Coffee House promptly returned when the Anti-Haven was kicked off
purdue machines yet again and is up and running to this update.

In January of 1993, The Coffee House was promptly asked to leave its
home on culebra.uccs.edu. The account it was run on was a reasearch
account, and hence the admin frowned upon its usage for a chat.
The Coffee House moved to hoshi.colorado.edu 2525 for around a week
and then it was also taken down due to admin disapproval.

The Twilight Zone, administered by Visual Mark popped up during this
time to handle the load of haveners eager to haven. It was orginally
run at gn.ecn.purdue.edu 2000, It was moved to port 2525 for some
unspecified reason. Blackbird also put up the Anti-Haven on 
Concerto.cc.purdue.edu 2525. The Zone is now packed to capacity most
nites while the overflow heads to either the Anti-Haven or Tenny's Place.

Last edited February 3rd, 1993

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W. Robert Nelson  ([email-masked])