Thank you lord archival enjoyer

erm... nuh uh https://neocities.org/site/aviszone

Ah! If you mean "Flying With Quills" Avis, she's still around! There's a setting you can toggle that essentially makes your Neocities profile invisible, but you can still access their website. I got the impression she may have disabled it to better focus on other things for the time being.

Ye, i mean FWQ. I know about the feature, i just miss seeing avis around and getting the spicy website updates

I dont want to hog all the airtime though

War becomes routine...

u drink?

Of course! I drink and smoke and thats about it when it comes to cap. I sometimes update the website i guess

Also, don't look up Craic Day, its a real thing. Believe me. I will write an article on it tonight!

I sometimes update the website 😭 *raises glass*

I could feel the world getting slower and more confusing. Pint of coke to sober me up, wish me the best lads

@didntask i need to update my website more especially considering i have like a 106WPM now

i looked it up.

coke with kraken and disaronno is a well-known sobering drink

Holy shit, great minds think alike. I am wankerd.

Dan, of Webpage 1990 Colourised (a real one, btw, been here since day one) drinking with me telepathically from miles away

Famously known, i'm sure @literaturegirl

@oerrorpage i told you not to! How could you betray me like this

happy crack day lol

i could die if i did not search it up.

Now you looked it up and you STILL dont know. Craic Day will become international soon when i reveal to you my discovery that lead to its creation

and u no my frend, i know u becuz of ur eighte eighht bye thurty 1 c0113cti0n

I wonder why we didn't hear about craic day over here in Ireland ...

The website mentioned at the end was sadly never archived, however as far as my memory goes, it never had anything on it

I will become Count Cidoku of Sealand someday, just you wait

Tell me more...

Back in the old days, someone on the science board came up with the idea of making an amateur rocket group, with the name of "4chan Space Program"

>"4chan Space Program" uhm.. WHAT?!

A few autists assembled together a Discord server for it, and the work started. I ran the propaganda department, making posters, and discussing plans with the other members.

Eventually, we reached the idea that we ought to start with a balloon, as research into amateur rocketship proved it to be an expensive endeavour

So okay, balloon it is. But we ought to make it in such a way we can earn money for the next stage of the program

So what would earn money? A sponsorship! How do we get a sponsorship? By livestreaming from onboard the balloon! But what could we stream other than the outside? Now that got us thinking

What would we put inside to make the stream engaging? It has to be something very 4chan specific.... A swastika? Nah, that would bar us from the sponsorship. (But wouldnt being a group of 4channers also block us from a sponsorship? Not necesarrily! Not if they didn't know >:] You see, 4CSP would, internally, stand for 4chan Space Program, but externally we would claim it to be 4 Corners Space Program)

(obviously, this would be to "represent just how diverse we are as a group, being from all the 4 corners of the world". Absolute bull)

Okay, so what do we put inside if not a swastika? Well, a frog of course! Lets make this /sci/entific >8 )

We shall track the vitals of the frog throughout the balloon flight! Lets say its a study of how altitude affects amphibians or something of the sort, we'll justify it post-hoc, it would just be cool to send a frog into space.

@cap that's amazing

I was the opinion this would go catastrophically wrong (even made a poster to show it: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-1.jpg ) but fuck it, it would be crazy if we could pull this off!

Okay, we got out plan. Some of our guys started designing models of the pressursed chamber to be taken up by the balloon ( https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-2.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-3.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-4.PNG )

Engineering department was hard at work! Meanwhile, our outreach team started brainstorming a very important question: Where do we even launch this from? Why, Sealand of course! So our outreach leader reaches out to Prince Regent Michael Bates. And we heard back! Sadly the last email in the chain i have is what our response was to their response: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-5.jpg

Sadly, Sealand never replied after that. That was the end of our only location possibility. And slowly, as the amazing Sealand plan died, interest slowly started dying too. We had a mascot! By my own design as well! Her name was Stella (no relation to the beer). She was featured on the very first 4CSP poster! And do please keep in mind, I was like 15 when i made this in Picsart on my ANTIQUE Android

So Prince Michael agreed? LMAO. Not a lot of people even can go to Sealand; you guys journeying there when you aren't "influencers" or with the news would have been such a story to tell. I don't have such lofty ambitions as you had, but adventure calls you know.

Here it is: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-6.png

And I liked the concept behind this poster so much, that i re-did it in 2022! https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-7.png Here it is on it's own, and here's the side by side progression: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-8.png

There's other bits and bobs leftover from this, but this is about as much of the story itself that I recall. It was 7 years ago. I might make a page to document this all. End of tale for now, dear friends

Yes, definitely do document it, please. For the fun of it.

Some last things left are: I actually got the specific patch Stella has on the 2022 poster, specifically to sew it on a blue hoodie. Her t-shirt is supposed to be a parody of Atari, called Atree, with the kanji for tree above it, as it was similar to the Atari logo

I really enjoyed eavesdropping on this thread.

golly goodness, that's amazing.