15 December 1996: In the time of ancient warlords, kings and defective VCR
programming...a site was born..well sorta <g> Our tale, dear reader, goes back in the dim 1990's...actually 1996, on a hot and humid Saturday
Sydney night in the dying days of 1996. December 14, 1996 to be exact. I sat down to make sure that I would tape a show for a friend who missed the first episode of a show called "Xena: Warrior Princess".
Frankly I wasn't going to give her a tape with Australia's Funniest Home Videos on it since she really had her heart set on this show. My
intention was to sit for a minute, make sure the VCR was taping what it was supposed to be taping and move on to more important things...alas fate had other ideas and thus I began
this insane journey of creating a site dedicated to Xena: Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor. The site was called The Australian Xena Information Page at
http://www.zip.com.au/~kira That site were born December 15,
1996 when everything I did to get the idea out of my head failed and so in the true and trusted method of giving in to my ideas, I created the site. Originally the site were located under one address on the 5 mb space allocated to me by my ISP. I did a Bill Gates and said the immortal words...I don't think I'll need
more than 5 mb. You can stop laughing now :) Dec/January 1997 - The Bard's Corner is born and I start to add my favourite bards and their stories
April 1997 - moved ausxip to xenite.simplenet.com 20
July 1999 The site changed to it's domain name of AUSXIP.COM and moves from Simplenet. Simplenet/Yahoo got a little tight with their size restrictions so ausxip had to move again. This time it
took up residence on hostingshop servers with a huge 10 gb hard drive (no one remind me about the 5 mb okay?). AUSXIP has undergone many changes;
design and content over the last 12 years. It's constantly evolving. April 2003 - "Xena: Warrior Princess and Lucy Lawless Print Media Articles and Images
from New Zealand" was merged into AUSXIP. That site was run by Liz/Sojourner. April 2003 - Split AUSXIP into three sites. AUSXIP Lucy Lawless Files and
AUSXIP Renee O'Connor Files domains were set up. December 2003 - AUSXIP grows up and get it's own dedicated server. July 2004 - Forevaxena
is incorporated into AUSXIP - forevaxena is run by Cindy.
September 2004 - Judi's Creations merges
with AUSXIP - Judi's Creations was run by Carol Stephens. December 2004 - AUSXIP reached it's 8th birthday. Amazing. I never thought it was going to happen or I would keep my interest in
a tv show for that long but Xena has touched me like no other show. It's gone beyond being a tv show and more about the community built around it.
August 2005 - Hurricane Katrina hits and AUSXIP
launches Xenite Watch for fans to
locate fans in New Orleans and to raise money for Katrina Relief
December 2005 - AUSXIP reaches it's 9th Birthday!
December 2006 - AUSXIP reaches it's 10th
Birthday! A huge milestone!
December 2006 -
AUSXIP Charity Auctions is born
to raise money for the Starship Children's Health and The Alissa Ann
Ruch Burn Foundation. First auction raises $8,150!
November 2007 - 13 February 2008 - AUSXIP
launches Xenaverse Refreshes Campaign to support our Xena writers like
Katherine Fugate and Steven Sears - we raise $2,005!
December 2007 - AUSXIP reaches it's 11th
Birthday!
January 2007 - KT Jorgensen joins the AUSXIP
sidekick team!
April 2007 - New site under AUSXIP Network -
Steven Sears Online! Dedicated
to one of my favourite writers
April 2007 - AUSXIP Interviews is resurrected
with one hell of a great interview - Renee agrees to be interviewed by
AUSXIP sidekick Christa for a video interview. First time a xena fan
site has got a Renee interview!
May 2007 - New site under AUSXIP Network -
Rob Tapert Online. Dedicated to Rob
Tapert!
May 2007 - New site under AUSXIP Network and not
Xena related - ARMY WIVES.
Show created and produced by Xena writer Katherine Fugate
September 6, 2007 - New Subsite dedicated to a
non Xena actor - Simone Lahbib! Launch of the
AUSXIP Simone Lahbib News and
Multimedia Fan Site
October 2007 - AUSXIP and Talking Xena - after a
hiatus of a few years, Talking Xena Message Board once again becomes the
Official AUSXIP Forum and is now known as Talking Xena - Official
Message Board for AUSXIP.
March 2008 - In honour of Lucy's 40th Birthday,
we hold our second HUGE Charity Auction to raise money for Starship, The
Alissa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, Renee O'Connor Outreach Fund and WGA
fund. We raise $16,000!
March 2008 - AUSXIP gets a new design and logo!
April 2008 - AUSXIP gets another great interview with Renee at the
Burn Relay!
April 2008 - AUSXIP is honoured with a Lucy
Lawless interview!. First time a Xena fan web site has been given an
interview with Lucy.
April 2008 - AUSXIP incorporates part of the
NutBread Brigade Website Xenite Tribute Page -
The Xenite Memorial to
remember and honour the fans we have lost.
April 8, 2008 - New AUSXIP subsite dedicated to
Adrienne Wilkinson!
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