Although this starts off describing multiple.org, if you read the whole page you'll understand the history of Dissident and multiple.org.
Multiple.org's origins begin at the end of 1994, when Lynch decided to get a 28.8k PPP and use that instead of his shell accounts. Within a very short period of time, 5-10 people would be logged into Dissident.com (his PPP's address) and they would be nuking and flashing and raising hell. During January 1995, the users of Dissident brought IRC to its knees by breaking links everywhere and anywhere, colliding, nuking, flashing, and generally raising hell. Since Lynch's PPP wasn't fulltime he looked into the costs of getting a fulltime PPP or ISDN connection, since he really enjoyed having the system.
Around the same time that Dissident was beginning, Icon got a job at one of the Bay Area's best ISP's, Exodus Communications. Since they had a T1 with very little bandwidth utilization, and since Lynch was liked by many Exodus employees, it didn't take long for Dissident to get a high speed ethernet connect to Exodus' T1.
As the user load of Dissident grew, more hardware was added to the system, and it eventually supported an average user load of 30-40 people online at any given time with no lag. Dissident gained a reputation, and was home to many well known IRCers, like |suBZEro|, SrFrog, and dozens more.
As with all good things, Dissident came to an end early in May 1995. A sequence of events unfolded that very quickly led to the once proud Linux machine being converted into two windows boxes at Lynch's home.
That sealed Dissident's fate and soon afterwards Icon's boss reluctantly told Lynch that Dissident had to go. He basically said that bad blood between Best and Exodus was not wanted and that he had no choice but to remove Dissident.
Since Multiple had a lot more going in its favor than its precursor, everyone expected it to be around for a lot longer. A number of lame users had caused problems from k-lines to possible removal of the system so eventually Multiple.org went private. enjoy it! If you don't.... oh well!
So althought you probably never expected to see this system again, Dissident is back.
:P Mykroft, and everyone in .no!
This arrogance brought to you by Lynch. (Who else has an ego THAT big?!)
Send your comments, suggestions and all that stuph to
lynch@dissident.com