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November 1998

Nov 21
  • Fire will not have internet access for the later of next week. Channel Masters will be in charge.
  • Article of a man who kidnapped a woman he met in a chatroom.
  • Check out Leonids Meteor Shower accounts on the Gatherings page.
  • Update of new users list. Jen's profile updated.
    Nov 14
  • Couple of Anime links added to Links page
  • New profile added for Mishi
    Nov 07
  • Useful Tips and Hoaxes sections added
  • Fire's stuffs for sale (until Nov 22)
  • New pics added 2 each from Mid-autumn festival gathering, Fire's Las Vegas trip and Bunnie's pics.
  • 2 new articles added to Voices from the Heart
  • Associates with Amazon.com and CDNow
  • New profile added for Angui and midi changed for GuruClef

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    October 1998

    Oct 31
  • Another new bot: Eos named by DaDoo
  • Kopi's picture is posted
    Oct 24
  • Useful tip on traffic offenses
    Oct 17
  • Cartoon-of-the-Day is discontinued
  • DaDoo became our new Channel Master
  • New feature: Jokes from the Net created and maintained by DaDoo
  • Only new bots(Altair and Cepheus) will give +v
  • New feature: Voices from the Heart
  • Chibi's baby pictures are posted.
    Oct 10
  • Mid-Autumn Gathering diary is out
  • Michi became our operator
  • Fire's apology to Dave for a misunderstanding
  • New bots added
  • New birthday midi added
    Oct 03
  • More details on the gathering. Direction to mua's house. The SF Moon Festival.
  • Story telling and michi's prize on the Message Board gained popularity
  • Story telling Part I in MS Word
  • HTML codes in all pages updated. Kopi's new profile. Fremont Gathering picture. More links in Links Page.
  • Birthday Page updated. Default midi(Song Bird by Kenny G) for users' pages without midi

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    September 1998

    Sep 26
  • Story Telling started by writer13 at the Message Board.
  • Started to reorganize website.
  • Details for Mid-Autumn Gathering: Oct 03, San Francisco
  • Check out the new US$20 bill
    Sep 19
  • Jaya and CANINE became our Operators.
  • LLK and Confucius admitted in the channel.
  • Michi won the first round of Mystery Midi. No Mystery Midi this week.
    Sep 12
  • Added a daily cartoon and a half-hourly Quote Machine
  • Added a new Feature - Browser Games
  • Links to Starr's Report on White House sex scandal
    Sep 05
  • Rationalizing our austere policy - Security, Netiquette and Future Generations

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    August 1998
    Aug 29
  • Pregnant smokers can pass toxins to baby-study - Yahoo News
  • Tach's profile and picture is added
  • Channel key changed. Selected users received a card (made by muajee) via email.
  • Monki updated profile and CANINE updated midi
  • First offender of new policy. Second offender followed right after.
    • Aug 22
  • Ban these users: Amakusa and more2
  • Gatherings Page updated. 4 gatherings to date.
  • Monki updated his picture.
    • Aug 15
  • Mystery users appear out of nowhere -> Amakusa, muejay, more2.
  • Muajee, nth, bunnie and Fire went camping at Point Reyes.
  • Guruclef profile updated. Eve's pic added.
  • Reorganized the Users List with the addition of "+" sign.
  • We added more links to the Links Page.
  • Article: Ethnic Chinese prepare to flee
  • Article: Beijing permits demo against Indonesia rapes
    • Aug 08
  • Ssunie added her pictures
  • DaDoo to manage Mystery Midi - new feature
  • Mission, Policy, Legal Notice pages updated
  • We are no longer affiliated to #Asian-cali
  • Debate on controlling the channel key
    • Aug 01
  • Guess midi on DaDoo's page and win a prize
  • Canine, ssunie and michi added their profile
  • Dimples and Seamonki added new midis to their profiles
  • Message Board to remain as free speech area
  • Dimples to assist in Fireplace website
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    July 1998
    July 25
  • Some of the Yosemite Adventure pictures are taken out
  • We revamp our Home page with a new look
  • Niki added her picture
  • Muajee updated her profile
  • CANINE, tink, James and Fire met for movie in Fresno
  • We upgraded our Weekly Feedback section with realtime results
  • Ning added her picture
    • July 18
  • Internet virgins turn out to be hoaxes.
    Internet virgins fighting another man's cause?
    Internet virgins must find a new home
  • New pictures added in Yosemite Adventure Album
  • Pictures of Indonesia riots added in Samaritans page
  • Dadoo became one of our operators.
  • Policy amended
    • July 11
  • Please use Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher to view the MS Investor ticker tape.
  • We implemented a channel key and changed it once.
  • Please subscribe to the mailing list for faster respond to changes.
  • Website will be updated every Saturday.
  • Let your name travel to space. Submit your name to StarDust (Aug 15 deadline).
  • Check out the "Our First Time" website for the internet virgins. (NB: might be a hoax)
  • Holalay's profile is added.
  • Links page modified and new links added.
  • Message board became hottest feature.
    • July 03 Monki added his homepage URL. Fireplace Gallery, Samaritans, Homework Help added. News and Stocks ticker added. Chibi's updated profile.
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    June 1998
    June 26 Affiliated to #asian-cali. Fireplace Cuisine, Translator added. New links added by Dadoo. Tink became our operator. mIRC 5.4 released - download from mIRC 5.4 (32) in Nevada (linked from http://www.mirc.co.uk/).
    June 19 Added Message Board. Chibi became one of our operators. Bunnie, Mis5, profiles updated. Yinhou, Amelia, Jaya profiles added. Affiliated to #Asiacafe.
    June 09 We changed the interface of our Home page and officially announced our Birthday page. Mis5's profile is added and monki's profile updated.
    June 05 Happy Birthday to Clef-san whose birthday was on June 02. Lilkisses added a new picture and niki had her profile updated.
    June 03 Fireplace gathering has not ended yet! Dimples is going to toronto and may meet up with nando. She may also go to Buffalo, New York and meet da monki!
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    May 1998
    May 31 Yosemite Adventure May 28-31 was a success. Those attended were Fire, James, Dimples, nth, muajee, jcw, tinker, chibi-ryu. Non-fireplace users were Dave, Liew and Ernest.
    May 27 Alexiz's and B-Thug's page added. We have two new bots Fireguard and SanDee (compliments of YH)
    May 21 Dimple's, Chibi-ryu's profiles are updated; Dadoo's, UCLABruin's and pearl's profiles added; User list reorganized
    May 16 Jcw's profile added and muajee's profile updated
    May 13 Seamonki's, Snow's, Jen's profile are updated. Tink's, Chibi-Ryu's, grice's and Lilkisses' pages are added.
    May 13 Congratulations to James for scoring 195 and 206 pinfalls in bowling!
    May 13 Congratulations to Kendrstew for coming in 76th place out of 5000 players in Quake on the Mega-TF server!
    May 05 We have one new bot, Filoli......meaning to Fight, Love and Live! (nth named this one!)
    May 05 Please use SanRuk to get ops. Other bots may have been reconfigured and the user-list modified.
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    April 1998
    April 21 Finally, our very own bots: Adoramus, Sanruk, plaisir, l^amour. Thank you for participating in the Name Our Bots Event.
    April 21 Ningning has quit IRC for good.
    April 16 Try our chatroom on the web at #FireplaceChat. Have fun!
    April 16 Thanks to nth and Kendrstew for pointing out a broken link.
    April 16 Thanks to muajee for being our frequent visitor to the hp! Check out her comments at the guestbook!
    April 12 nth's new pic is up! plus a cool midi :) Thanks to our Fireplace photographer, muajee. (Email directly to muajee for prices. For great discounts, mention you are introduced by Fire)
    April 12 And finally, Kim's profile is also up. No pics to see though.
    April 12 Please remember to participate in our Name Our New Bots event.
    April 12 We have a new bot up - Adoramus.
    If you are an operator and haven't been added yet, please join the channel today and get added.
    April 07 Kim's profile to be up soon.
    April 06 Ning's pic taken down...if you miss it...then too bad :P
    April 05 Kendrstew profile is updated. Clef-san, muajee pic is added and updated respectively..
    April 04 Profile additions and updates for Kendrstew, Bunnie, Ning, Seamonki, Clef-san, Snow, Eve.
    April 01 Jen's profile is updated.
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    March 1998
    March 29 CraCkHead added to Blacklisted Visitor list. Reason: Mass deop.
    March 28 Do not panic. The bots in the channel (pao-tsai, sunny, etc.) belong to our friends. We'll resume business very soon.
    March 27 Guess what? Ning's pic gonna be up soon!
    March 27 New URL for #Fireplace website! http://fireplace.home.ml.org
    - Both of the old and new URLs for #Fireplace can be used.
    - Both URLs brings you to the same website.
    March 21 To be added soon! snow and eve pages!
    March 21 James's page is up! plus kendrstew's updated page!
    March 21 Coming soon! James's page!
    March 21 Coming soon! kendrstew's updated page! Updated marital status, email and ICQ UIN!
    March 21 New bots management! New policies! To be announced soon!
    March 18 Archive section added.
    March 18 Hey everyone! muajee's page is up!
    March 17 Kendrstew survived! Real life account.
    March 16 Congratulations to James for scoring 223 in bowling today!
    March 16 The moment you have been waiting for......Bunnie's pic!
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