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Campbell took the dare and, together with Hamish Sinclair, Marathon superfans Gary Simmons and Claude Errera, and James Pillar and Nathan Kline (who helped with design), he opened the web site early in January 1999. In April, Bungie.org introduced its familiar subdomains devoted to each Bungie game: [http://pid.bungie.org pid.bungie.org], [ | Campbell took the dare and, together with Hamish Sinclair, Marathon superfans Gary Simmons and Claude Errera, and James Pillar and Nathan Kline (who helped with design), he opened the web site early in January 1999. In April, Bungie.org introduced its familiar subdomains devoted to each Bungie game: [http://pid.bungie.org pid.bungie.org], [https://marathon.bungie.org marathon.bungie.org], [http://myth.bungie.org myth.bungie.org] (site down), [http://oni.bungie.org oni.bungie.org], and blam.bungie.org (moved to [http://halo.bungie.org halo.bungie.org] once the game's name was revealed). | ||
Hamish Sinclair and Matt Smith handled Pathways into Darkness and the massive Marathon Story page, Campbell and Simmons handled the rest of the Marathon subdomain, Forrest Camaranesi handled Myth, Campbell handled Oni (which was still in development), and Errera eventually handled the Halo subdomain. Miguel Chavez handled [http://bs.bungie.org bs.bungie.org], the Bungie Sightings page. The bungie.org domain came to be known as B.org for short, or sometimes simply Borg. | Hamish Sinclair and Matt Smith handled Pathways into Darkness and the massive Marathon Story page, Campbell and Simmons handled the rest of the Marathon subdomain, Forrest Camaranesi handled Myth, Campbell handled Oni (which was still in development), and Errera eventually handled the Halo subdomain. Miguel Chavez handled [http://bs.bungie.org bs.bungie.org], the Bungie Sightings page. The bungie.org domain came to be known as B.org for short, or sometimes simply Borg. | ||
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==The first heyday of the Oni fandom== | ==The first heyday of the Oni fandom== | ||
Oni Central reported the latest news from Bungie West, and covered the development by fans of early | Oni Central reported the latest news from Bungie West, with contributions from Clem Freeman, Chris Camacho and Steve Campbell in addition to Harry himself. Besides updates on the game's progress, the site also covered the development by fans of early game utilities such as Oni Key Config and OniTools. Other fan sites sprang up over time, such as OniShots (focusing on screenshots taken by fans, and game tips and cheats, with a forum that accumulated 7000 posts), OniRes (focusing on game modification and also hosting a forum), and OniChars (a forum for discussion of Oni's characters). OniShots and OniRes were eventually hosted on Oni Central. | ||
==The later years of Bungie.org== | ==The later years of Bungie.org== | ||
{{Anchor|2002|2003|2004}} | {{Anchor|2002|2003|2004}} | ||
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The original Oni Central Forum, now referred to as the Carnage board because it (and other B.org forums) ran on the carnage.bungie.org subdomain, was a threaded board running on simple software known as WebBBS. In March 2003, Harry decided to move to modern forum software, and OCF was restarted on the ikonBoard software, which presented the indexed, flat style of forum that is usually seen on the Internet today. | The original Oni Central Forum, now referred to as the Carnage board because it (and other B.org forums) ran on the carnage.bungie.org subdomain, was a threaded board running on simple software known as WebBBS. In March 2003, Harry decided to move to modern forum software, and OCF was restarted on the ikonBoard software, which presented the indexed, flat style of forum that is usually seen on the Internet today. | ||
The ikonBoard forum's database became corrupted in April '05, at which point OCF was moved to the Infinite Core Technology (ICT) software. Due to general dissatisfaction with ICT's quirks, OCF moved to the speedy, simple PunBB software starting in January '07. Longtime members of the community stated their hope at the time that this would be the final move of the forum. In April of 2011, a minor change in | The ikonBoard forum's database became corrupted in April '05, at which point OCF was moved to the Infinite Core Technology (ICT) software. Due to general dissatisfaction with ICT's quirks, OCF moved to the speedy, simple PunBB software starting in January '07. Longtime members of the community stated their hope at the time that this would be the final move of the forum. In April of 2011, a minor change in forum software occurred when the board was moved from PunBB to FluxBB, a fork of PunBB that was more actively maintained. | ||
With the rising popularity of Discord as a chat platform, the Oni Central Discord was started in March 2017, eventually growing to over 1,000 members. In October 2024, Oni Central Forum was taken offline due to the need to update the Bungie.org server; FluxBB was no longer actively maintained software and would not be able to run in the updated server environment. The fandom now communicates and posts their creations on {{Discord|nice=yes}}. A more-or-less complete copy of Oni Central Forum in its last incarnation exists in the Wayback Machine (see link in table below). | |||
Historical forum posts can be found below: | Historical forum posts can be found below: | ||
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|[http://oni.bungie.org/forum/index.php oni.bungie.org/forum] (PunBB/FluxBB, 2007- | |[https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/http://oni.bungie.org/forum/index.php oni.bungie.org/forum] (PunBB/FluxBB, 2007-2024) | ||
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