{"id":4309,"date":"2024-07-28T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimsghost.place\/?page_id=4309"},"modified":"2024-12-29T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T17:08:32","slug":"blog-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jimsghost.place\/?page_id=4309","title":{"rendered":"Blog History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The resource boasts a long and rich history, spanning from 1998 to the present day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1998\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2001\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2004\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2008\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2011\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2017\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2018\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2022\u00a0\u2192<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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2025<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
1998\u00a0\u2192<\/div>
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Support Homeplace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

URL: \/\/support.mtu.ru<\/strong> (Discontinued)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A group of enthusiasts from the technical support team of the Moscow internet provider “MTU-Inform” established a resource for all users under the shared name “Support Homeplace.” It was hosted on the company’s infrastructure and held an underground status. Official approval was absent, but no one intended to shut it down either \u2014 customers loved it. The site featured a variety of amusing and not-so-amusing texts, materials on the basics of working with the internet and Usenet newsgroups, and a wealth of technical information related to computers, among other things. This site fostered a large community within the Usenet hierarchy of mtu.inform, which endured long after the project’s closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasons for the project’s closure were mundane: the company decided to hire a new “media projects department director.” Upon seeing the thriving (albeit not entirely “legal” from the company\u2019s perspective) community, he sought to bring it under his control. What followed was swift, unfolding along the lines of “arrive, destroy, and leave.” His clumsy and disgraceful attempt to commercialize the community \u2014 without any effort to thoughtfully plan, strategize, or prepare \u2014 ended in predictable and resounding failure. Meanwhile, the original authors of the project were left with the pitiful remnants of a once-flourishing resource.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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