A Little History of the Dark Side
By Jason Newquist ~ Sun, 16 Oct 2005
Most of the people who would later constitute Nocturne Research all knew each other from a colossal time-wasting fad among college geeks in the 1990s called MUSHing. How remarkable it was, back in those days, to interact in real time with people all over the world.
But college led to marriage, marrige led to real jobs, and real jobs led to no more massive time-wasting online enterprises. But the idea of maintaining a place where people could hang out and chat persisted until Jason purchased a Sun Sparc 1 server, with 32MB of RAM and precious little hard disk space -- and hooked it up to his home dialup connection in February, 1996. A few weeks passed before he emailed his domain name registration to the Inter NIC. It was accepted, and on March 17, nocturne.org was born.
Nocturne would change servers many times - and is about to again - but in each instance, it would live in a closet and be fed through a domestic internet connection.