The Talon House

This actually comes from another blog that I have going.

While doing the last post, I happened to think, I should tell the story behind The Talon House.

I joined Deweywriter in December of 2003. That same month while on Christmas vacation, I met a friend of a long time friend of mine. He and I became friends. B, at one point started his own forum board Lonecoyote79. Later that year, B decided to pull a disappearing act on his friends. Not knowing what was going to happen to that board, I decided to start my own.

After discussing this with a couple of people and what I wanted to do, a format was chosen and I contacted forums4 free and started my own free site. The board I got just happened to be by Invision Power Services. On July 14, 2004, The Talon House went online. In October 2004, F4F upgraded their servers. When they did this, it caused problems for the House. I tried several times to contact F4F to have the problem they caused, corrected. Never got a answer from them. I then checked into Invision Power Boards and switched to them. So The Talon House became a hosted site. Fortunately, I had a back-up copy of the original site to start up the new hosted one, so I only lost about 4 weeks worth of posts.

The design for The House is a cross between two sites, Deweywriter and the now defunct Lonecoyote79. LC79 was set up like a house with rooms for forum names. I used sub-forum ideas from DW. I later added the chat room, a.k.a. the Fone Booth.

Since I love to ride Roller Coasters, I chose Talon @ Dorney Park and Wild Water Kingdom as the coaster name I would use, henceforth, I became 'Talonrider'.

Unfortunately, the pictures I have are too large to post here. But, you can go here to see some photo's.