Origin

I'm Spot. Founder of Up Rough and one of the organizers of DATASTORM.

I believe it was 2010, aSCIIARENa was a short school project. We had a PHP class (my first coding class ever) for a week and I kind of misunderstood the scope of the project.

I built aSCIIARENa. It was an instant hit. It brought together the long lost ascii scene as they had a platform to release on again.


Story

At the peak there was something like 8-10 new collys released each month. People found it by nostalgic googling of their handle and by word of mouth.

As it grew it got more and more busy and as it was my first coding project it was very resource hungry and started crashing the server it was hosted on. (Thanks Ziphoid!). We eventually had to take it down.

But fear not, we are slowly rebuilding it and making it more modern. It will take some time, but it will be back!

It really brough life back into a dead scene. It was a lot of fun hanging on the arena and it seems like many people miss it.


Trends & Future

Well, most forums are way less busy as Facebook offers a more direct way of communication. We will be back!

aSKEE rEWLZ! kEEP tHE bBS sCENE aLIVE!