After a couple years of trying to hack the existing code more to our liking I found that my ideas just weren't going to fit without a complete overhaul. So I struck open some new files and started coding the "RAThaven" on July 5, 1997. Within a couple months I had replicated nearly all the functionality of the Opium Den code we were running. I put my code on the (at the time) MelrosePlace.com chatroom (we had up to 5 different havens running at a time for various customers) because it had the most traffic for good stress testing.

Since then alot more coding has taken place. I moved 5 times. First across town, then across the country, then 3 more times around northern California. I moved the havens to a Sparc1 sometime during my employ with Adam. At some point during my many moves the machine disappeared off the net (probably due to the company being sold a couple times) and there were no chats. Luckily I had a DSL line and a spare machine (Pentium133 w/ 32MB RAM, which was also my CD ripping box) so I fired up the chats at my house in San Francisco.

In November of 2001 I switched to telcommuting which meant I could leave SF and move in with my girlfriend. Yay! But there was no DSL service at her house, only a restricted cable-modem (no servers!) So I built a new machine (an Athlon 1400 with 768 MB) and stuck it at a co-lo.

This year I decided I was getting gouged by my ISP so now I rent an even more powerful Athlon ("2000+", actually 1660MHz) for less than half the cost at an ISP in Missouri. And that's where you are now.

Three havens remain on my server these days. Port 4616 runs my RAThaven code and carries the most traffic, even tho that's not much at all. Ports 1111 and 1234 run the old modified OD code for mostly nostalgic purposes. For some reason those 2 rooms tend to attract a crowd from Central and South America.

Connect to the havens:
telnet://curryco.they.org:4616
telnet://curryco.they.org:1111
telnet://curryco.they.org:1234
Download the source:
Source Code