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HISTORY OF AUSXIP
Milestones in the life of a fan website

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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!