The nes scene was a big part of my life when I was in high school. As it stands I am probably the oldest member of it. I started in 1997 when things were relatively new, and have seen alot of changes for the better and worse. Here is a recap of what has happened.

1995

The Internet is a new creation for the public.

NES World is created, which officially starts the history of the NES Scene.

1996

March - tsr's NES Archive is born. It is the first English site to cover both the NES and Famicom.

1997

The NES Scene is born with the ever growing popularity of The NES Nation helping it along the way. Spazzoid's NES Stuff, 8-Bit Extreme, and 8N! help pioneer the NES scene by building a stronger following of the everyday fan.

Tons of sites start popping up. Most of them don't make it past a week.

Planet Brinstar opens as the first nes hosting service. The fee is $8 a month.

The NES Wormhole and the nintendo old skool bring the idea of the alternative NES site to the scene. They are both extremely popular.

The first NES domain site is launched at nes-online.com. The site is updated daily.

The NES Triforce is started.

1998

The NES Nation changes webmasters twice.

The NES BBS is launched by Hayabusa and Octopooki. It is meant to keep unruley posters from ruining the fun.

The second NES domain site is started at nesii.com. It lasts a little less than a week.

The NES Nation is mysteriously hacked. Everyone is outraged. Spofforth says the site will come back soon.

#nes98 is started on EFnet and later moves to DALnet. It develops quite a number of chatters.

the nintendo old skool is taken off the internet, but later comes back as Old Skool Uncut.

NES Times (Fortune City, so not to be confused with the Silius site of the same name) is created.

neshq.com (phifey's site not the new one) is started.

the-nothing, a site many NES sites were hosted from, goes down.

nesco, an all nes hosting site, is started by blienk.

nesii² is opened. It lasts about a week.

The NES BBS is killed.

1999

#nes98 decides whether or not they change their name to #nes99. They later leave the name unchanged.

Dark Warrior leaves #nes98 to start #nesshrine.

#nesshrine and #nes98 have flame war after flame war.

Brinstar starts hosting all the big NES sites, but is later completely deleted. With this act, Spazzoid's NES Stuff, 8-bit Extreme, and other great sites were wiped of the net.

nesco. goes down.

The NES BBS comes back, but is not nearly as popular as it had been.

iodized and darkstar are opened.

tsr's NES Pit is opened.

tha nes smackdown is born

#nes98 dies.

Spofforth quits, leaving Quizzle and noneno the webmasters of The NES Nation.

2000

Ruudos launches the NES Fountain.

January 20: |tsr's NES Archive is shut down and archived.

June 24: jasonvincion launches Nintendo-A-Go-Go.

2001

NES Horsemen is launched.

April 26: NESFAQs is officially launched.

August 20: Mike, better known to members of the Scene as Groxx, creates NES Player, and puts a wealth of information on the site. In a year, the site will become the biggest NES site as well as the biggest source for information on the NES as well as tons of other NES-related stuff.

November 26: NES Chedda is officially launched by Minkis and MacDaddi.

2002

NES Achievers is launched.

June 6: After a long absense Tha NES Smackdown is brought back as smackdown GT.

July 1: NES? is created.

2003

Ernster of NES Land is accused by various members of the NES Scene for plagiarism (which did happen). It also starts a flame war on the NES Land Forums.

Brandon Murphy finds the prototype cartridge for the unreleased California Raisins game. The game is found to be complete, and makes Brandon famous throughout the Scene for being lucky enough to find the game.

Nintendo World Wide (NWW) reopens.

March 6: NESFAQs is closed down.

April 13: NES Achievers starts archiving other people's scores.

April 26: Royal Ranger's NES Site comes to an end.

July 6: strx10 creates the NES Zone.

December 25: NES Monster merges with NES City.

2004

NES Chedda is shut down and archived.

NES Land dies.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show and The Legend of Zelda cartoons are now shown on Yahooligans! TV! (http://tv.yahooligans.com)

The NES Forums dies out and is replaced with a Bob Saget fanpage. The New NES Forums (http://s8.invisionfree.com/nesforums) is created later on.

Cracked 8 Ball leaves Nintendo World Wide. Qix leaves a month afterward, followed by Calgone. AndrewM is the only staff member left, leaving him to do double duty not only with NWW, but also with his own site, NES HQ.

February 25: Scott Kessler of Monroe, North Carolina, beats the 5:20 time set by Nintendo and brings it down to 5:17. It is confirmed by Twin Galaxies.

March 24: jasonvincion closes down Nintendo-a-Go-Go.

March 27: SMBFan is shut down and archived.

April 30: Scott Kessler brings his world record time down to 5:14 as reviewed by Twin Galaxies. A rumor goes around the Twin Galaxies forums that there is also a third video where Kessler beats it again.

May 7: The rumours of the third tape are finally confirmed, as the video shows Kessler beating it in 5:13.

June: Even though it is down for the moment and replaced with a "coming back soon screen", NES Player becomes the first NES site to reach 250,000 hits, and does it in less than three years.

June 20: NES Player is back online, now under its old name Nintendo Player.

July 13: Cracked 8 Ball (c8b), formerly of Nintendo World Wide (NWW) and joins up with BLUE EXIT to create NES Alternative.

Thanks to Stephen Krokowski for helping me fill in some blanks.
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