Phrozen Crew
******** From Time Immemorial
Early members faced a variety of pitfalls.
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(hopefully) brief history of PC ================================= OK, since you've actually clicked the link, I'm assuming you are actually somewhat curious as to how Phrozen Crew came to be. What you're going to read here is essentially a summary of our history. Earlier versions of this document contained very detailed explanations of how every member ever came to be. It was very interesting to me, and was fun for me to remember all the good and bad times, but I realized that most of you don't want to read a history book online. If there's a genuine want to know all the details, then I can make the other version available. With that said, it would be most logical to start from the very beginning... Well, back in the early '90's... around 1993, there was a group named Phrozen Crew, which was run by a guy by the name of Aphex Twin. To make a long story short, Aphex Twin recruited a guy by the name of The Keyboard Caper as a member. As time passed, the group died, as many online groups do. The Keyboard Caper (aka tKC) decided to re-form PC later on. Hence the Phrozen Crew (as you know it now) was born. It was a very small group -- only four members total. The entire group consisted of one person, namely tKC. The other members were Psylocke, the vice prez and ansi coder. Do you remember the old school demo scene? Well, that's where the other two members fit in more or less: Mutha made music for demo's and Lucido did the graphics. So that takes us up to roughly 1995. In '95 tKC and PC continued to release demo's. In 1996, tKC discovered IRC. With the help of a few friends, he opened up a channel on EfNet called #PC96. It wasn't very popular, as most people had never heard of PC. The dominant group at that time was uCF. PC and uCF were on excellent terms; there were many people that were in both groups. Unfortunately, differing styles eventually led us to break apart and distance ourselves. At the end on '95 and in '96, big things started happening in PC. Things started rolling. Familiar and perhaps not so familiar names joined the ranks of PC. Myself, Archimede, Baloosh, AlieN, MegaByte, etc, etc. PC began getting attention. Not because we were super 'leet but because we were different. We tried to help all those that we could. We still do. It worked. PC got bigger and bigger. (who needs viagra? ;)) Classic guys like Saltine, LordByte, Killer+Bee, surva, and others joined the ranks. At times PC was growing too fast for it's own good. There were times of chaos and times when difficult decisions had to be made. As we kept rolling along picking up speed, we were doing more and better and it was clear by the tons of thanks from people we were getting that we were doing things right. We rolled through '97 without a hitch. In 1998, there was a major re-organization of PC. Internal group problems were wrecking us. We were taken down to our very core -- many people out there considered us dead. Done for. Hell no. After a lot of patience from everyone and a lot of talking and working things out, we came back. A bit scratched and scathed, but still breathing. Slowly but surely things began picking up. By the end of 1998, PC was cruising along once again. In 1999 -- the road ahead of us looks good. The sky is clear, the engine is newly tuned and tweaked for performance, and the driver is sober and awake. This is usually the point where the narrator lists some of the best people in the group. But I will refrain. Why? Simple. I don't have to do it because all you have to do is look at PC. All those people are my best guys. phroZen, tHATDUDE |