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Cheesehouse was written by Daniel ''Cheeseplant'' Stevens, a friend of Chris ''Cat'' Thompson, the creator of the first internet talker, Cat Chat (talker) , who attended Warwick University with Chris Thompson. Cheesehouse was the first really popular talker, and led to the massively popular Foothills , Resort and the most popular talker of all time, Surfers . The code used for Cheesehouse would form the basis of the ''Elsewhere'' code, which would later be developed in to ''Elsewhere Too'' or Ew-too . Cheesehouse was only ever open when its creator Daniel Stevens was actually in his university campus' computer laboratory, and was closed due to university staff shutting it down. It was opened without the permission of the university administrators. PRE-HISTORY Cheesehouse began when its creator, Daniel ''Cheeseplant'' Stevens, was introduced to a MUD in 1990 while studying as a Computer Science student at Warwick University . The MUD was called Warwick LPmud, and was used by other students at Warwick University. However, ''Cheeseplant'', who would later create the Cheesehouse talker, was frustrated with the MUD as he did not really enjoy the Roleplay or Game environment that was required to use the MUD. He wanted somewhere just to chat. ''Cheeseplant'' was then led to visit Cat Chat , which was the first ever internet talker, hosted on Warwick University's server by Chris ''Cat'' Thompson, which he enjoyed using. However, when Cat Chat was threatened by people from JANET (Joint Academic NETwork), which was what Warwick University students used to access the internet, Cat Chat closed its doors, never to reopen. Warwick University was not at that stage (1990) connected to the Internet as a whole, as that did not happen until mid-1991. Seeing that the talker was shut down, ''Cheeseplant'' had the idea to start his own talker so that he had somewhere to go to talk to people. Thus Cheesehouse was born. HISTORY Cheesehouse was opened on 8 February 1991, using the same ports that were previously used by Cat Chat , and indeed a lot of the users to the talker were unaware that it was an entirely different talker. While Cat Chat had been down for several months, a few Warwick University students tried out the old port number just in case, and thus the " Refugee s" from Cat Chat formed the basis of the early user numbers. Cheesehouse was initially only open whenever ''Cheeseplant'' was physically in the computer laboratories, although that meant the talker was open several hours per day. But as time went on, code was developed, and Warwick University was opened up to the internet in all its glory, ''Cheeseplant'' made the decision to occasionally leave the Cheesehouse talker open when he was not in the computer laboratories. THE END OF CHEESEHOUSE On 4 February 1992, the Warwick University administrators, under the direction of the Director of Computing, closed Cheesehouse, removed access to the network port, and placed a banner message indicating that it had been withdrawn. ''Cheeseplant'' also received a threatening e-mail from Mark Brady, a system administrator from UMIST , requesting personal information about the people who used Cheesehouse, as well as access to logs of what they said. ''Cheeseplant'' was unable to respond to these requests, primarily because he had never logged any conversations, and as a result received a number of other threatening e-mails from Mark Brady, suggesting that the talker was a "hotbed of Hacker activity". On 6 February 1992, ''Cheeseplant'' was suspended from the Warwick University computer system, as penalty for operating the Cheesehouse talker on their network, and stealing their computer resources. ''Cheeseplant'' met with the administrators of the Warwick University computer services, and explained his case, which was successful in that he managed to get his computer account back. However, he would never again open his talker. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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