Mayhem Nation is back!
January 7, 2007 – 7:55 amSeveral years ago I started hanging out with a few troublemakers in an online multiplayer game called America’s Army. We really got to know each other from the time we spent on a game cheats forum. I can’t for the life of me remember which one it was though.
Eventually someone decided that we should have our own website. The idea was to create our own “Project Mayhem” like Edward Norton in the movie Fight Club. projectmayhem.com was taken so mayhemnation.com was settled upon, and ‘Bucket’ as he went by, took charge and registered the domain effectively making him the leader of our group of miscreants. A day or so later his crappy webhost’s DNS finally propagated to my neck of the woods and mayhemnation.com was born.
Here and there we picked up new members. Some were converts from the game cheat forum and others were people we met in-game. Some were friends we had in real life. The biggest that Mayhem Nation ever got was probably about 12 members, but I loved it. It was our place and we could do whatever we wanted with it.
I visited the site at least daily, but found myself clicking my bookmarked link numerous times most days in hopes of a new bit of… anything really. It was good fun. None of us played America’s Army anymore. Either because we were tired of it, or because we were flat out banned for cheating. That didn’t matter though, we had mayhemnation.com.
The project underwent several evolutions and we eventually found ourselves using a hacked version, then finally a paid version of vBulletin. Several of the site members chipped in and Bucket bought a lifetime license for vBulletin. I would visit the site from time to time and find that it was down, or that the forum was empty because Bucket trashed the database somehow. I honestly can’t remember how many times we lost all of our data and started over with a blank forum. It was good fun nevertheless.
Eventually Bucket’s webhost went tits up and we found ourselves without a place to live… er, make fun of shit and post funny pictures. Supposedly the webhost had the rights to the domain name and they weren’t budging on it. We all sort of lost contact with each other, and mayhemnation.com faded into obscurity.
Until yesterday! I was doing one of those odd things that I do regularly. I was going through the list of domain names that I would like to purchase, seeing if any of them had expired when I noticed that mayhemnation.com was available. I ran and snatched up my credit card, loaded up GoDaddy and bought it right away.
mayhemnation.com is back!
