am i forgotten?

[The_Godfather]

come on, who remembers me.

[recycling goddess]

you were before my time

[Ginevive]

I remember ya!
Now the question is, do you remember me?

[The_Godfather]

i was here when this site was hosted on geckoisland.com, at ballkingdom.geckoisland.com. before that site went down.

[The_Godfather]

I remember ya!
Now the question is, do you remember me?

i do

[iceman25]

Who could forget the one and only The_Godfather! Boys and girls, bow down and pay ur respects!

[rabernet]

I did not have the pleasure of knowing you before, but welcome back!

[The_Godfather]

alright, for those of you who don't know me:

i started this website back in the day. if you remember it when it was a beige color and running off the content management system called postnuke. i passed the site off to smulkin in order to go full on into a new project: a herp super site with a friend. i got bored and decided to abandon being a webmaster completely and the site we created went to hell despite it's promissing future. i put a ton off work into this site in order to get it some exposure and take it from originally just being a ball python forum to a recognized name in the herpnet. the site still seems to be getting about the same ammount of hits since i left. which means it at that point was self sustaining just like i hoped. my only regret is that smulkin didn't decide to stick with postnuke, the newer versions of it have made the possibilities endless, and i also put a lot of work into attracting attention from search engine hits by changing the addresses from php to html. but over all its been in damn good hands.

since i left i've been up to a lot. i'm currently on leave from my training in the national guard. still got my 2 bps and a bci.

[rabernet]

It's very nice to hear about how this site was born and how you nurtured it through it's infancy! The fact that the members here love the site so much is testament to the work that you put into it! I know I love it!

[The_Godfather]

well, we got kicked out of geckoisland.com because of some trolling issues, then went over to a subdomain at leo-land.net, then just set up a real domain at this address. then me, jeanne, and rplank set out on building the site as far as a community and source of information, all the while busting ass to get the word out.

took a lot of energy out of me to not only be constantly building and adding to the site, then there was helping members out. it was all out of pocket for the hosting expenses also. never got much for advertisement sales for some reason.

check out the old site:

august 1 2003

http://web.archive.org/web/200308012....leo-land.net/


some older versions
http://web.archive.org/web/200408280...l-pythons.net/
http://web.archive.org/web/200402070...l-pythons.net/