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TIMELINE OF THE STOVE
As opposed to bringing you every quoted word that has graced the Stove's news page, there will be a timeline of important events and when they occurred. More recent news can be found in the news section.

4-09-01: Mega Man Dressup added!
3-28-01: Interview thrown together at the last minute posted
3-15-01: Majuuou review posted
3-04-01: Salamando's Stove Online (SS issue 7) posted, a huuuuge motherfucker.
2-18-01: Death of Zero Wing posted, bringing undue attention! Horray for undue attention!
2-01-01: What You Say, Vestalman?! finally posted
1-22-01: UWAOO! AOOH! MEGAMAN PICTURE POSTED!
1-05-01: Hentai Wrestler posted
12-24-00: Interview thrown together at the last minute posted
12-23-00: 20,000 hits
12-13-00: The Death of Aeris posted
12-08-00: Kart Fighter review posted
12-06-00: Salamando's Stove Issue 6 posted
11-28-00: Games We Probably Won't Review posted
11-2-00: Ergheiz review posted
9-8-00: Interview with Hobo Chocobo posted
8-27-00: Logos Panic review posted!
8-21-00: Parasite Eve crapped out
8-16-00: Final Fantasy III review posted
8-13-00: World Heroes 2 review posted
8-10-00: Barbie Super Model review posted
8-3-00: Go Go Ackman 3 review posted
7-30-00: Vandal~Hearts review posted
7-24-00: On Trial - Megaman Weapons posted
7-21-00: Mega Man IV review posted
7-18-00: Princess Maker 2 review posted
7-16-00: Air Fortress review posted
7-14-00: Salamando's Stove Fifth Issue (June) posted
7-11-00: Battle of Lovers review posted
7-06-00: Legend of Legaia review posted
6-29-00: Interview with Nall posted
6-11-00: Salamando's Stove unveils new layout!
5-26-00: Salamando's Stove reaches 10,000 hits!
5-25-00: Final Fantasy Anthology review posted
5-22-00: Wild ARMs review posted
5-19-00: Salamando's Stove Fourth Issue (May) posted
5-15-00: Salamando's Stove moves from RedRival to Evk's computer. The page remains on RedRival, but only as a redirect service.
5-10-00: Salamando's Stove uses free domain registration to make use of salamando.net!
5-03-00: Worst Castlevania Enemy article posted
4-30-00: On Trial: Even More FF Job Classes article posted
4-30-00: Sissy Fight review posted
4-29-00: Um Jammer Lammy review posted
4-26-00: Xenogears: Big Mechs, Bad Voiceacting; review posted
4-25-00: Floating, Talking Salamando added
4-25-00: Lame excuse for not posting anything in a week, bitching about school.
4-18-00: Salamando Radio FAQ posted.
4-16-00: Article on the New Tetris posted.
4-13-00: Salamando's Stove Third Issue (April)
4-11-00: Article Megaman 8: Adventures in Super-Cuteness posted.
4-11-00: Z gets an editorial posted in The Mushroom's Legit section.
4-11-00: Back from the Medieval Faire, posted 5 comics
4-07-00: Article on Pocket Fighter posted.
4-06-00: Article on Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo posted.
4-03-00: Article posted correcting many mistakes we had made inadvertantly.
4-05-00: Megaman X theme launched, last change to the old layout.
4-03-00: Customization added to the page, severely adding to the already crippling loading time.
4-02-00: Added the poll history so you can view old polls and their results. Polls hypothetically become weekly events, though it's blatantly untrue.
3-31-00: Interview With the Summoners article posted.
3-30-00: The Bar Job feature added. Huzzah, we've planned that since day 1!
3-27-00: Megaman X4 review posted. Mmm mmm good.; We get rid of the ad banner, because it was generating very very few hits.
3-27-00: The quiz changed to concern the page layout. In the end, I lied and actually redid the entire layout.
3-21-00: Layout changed back to original Secret of Mana theme. Poll added changed to poll people about the poll. Also, Moogs broke 1200 lines in one game of The New Tetris.
3-20-00: On Trial - More FF Job Classes posted by popular demand.
3-16-00: Evk's Naughty Adventure added! :O Scandalous!
3-12-00: Syper Wrestle Angels feature added, later a review
3-11-00: Parappa the Rapper FAQ posted. Many people laugh.
3-11-00: We fell in the X-Zone and didn't post for a while. 2 weeks in fact. OOPS. The page layout changed to a Tetris
2-??-00: Other miscellaneous pages added: Bad Trip, Evk: A Poem, and For Everlasting Peace.
2-29-00: The Adventures of Cyan posted in the style of Meklor Craziness.
4-05-00
3-30-00 Attack theme too. Eww!
2-27-00: Crayon Shinchan 2 review added as feature, later an article
2-24-00: Salamando's Stove Second Issue (March) added
2-19-00: 5000 hits graphic added. We love Arch Nerd day celebrated in Kasumi Handjob, Nicchan City, Evk City, Port Poon, and Murond.
2-18-00: We get 5000 hits! Quite the stepping-stone.
2-15-00: Salamando Radio gets a static URL, http://sradio.2y.net:8000
2-13-00: FF8: The Flip Side posted, concluding a lot of FF8 postings.
2-10-00: On Trial - FF8 OSV part 2 posted.
2-08-00: Weird article, Dancing Queen, posted.
2-07-00: Redrival moves, the page gets shut down for 2 days.
2-06-00: On Trial - FF8 OSV part 1 posted
2-01-00: Review of Final Fantasy 8 posted
1-28-00: Salamando's Stove 1st issue is sent out, curious correlation between Brunching Shuttlecocks's Electoral Collage and certain old comics we had done.
1-24-00: Miracle Girls review added as a feature, later a review
1-19-00: Newsletter added, promises of monthly gayness excite the masses. More info at the newsletter section.
1-19-00: Public forum on the message boards about direction of the stove. Total of 3 people participate. G'ahhh.
1-18-00: Evk's ISP gets a cable cut during a snowstorm, Salamando Radio goes down 3 days.
1-17-00: Salamando's Stove First Issue (February) added.
1-17-00: Even more message history craziness
1-09-00: 'Net surveys put up in misc/personal sections
1-06-00: On Trial- Recurring FF Themes posted
1-03-00: The Script Shredder part 2 added
12-25-99: Exerps from Evk and WrexSoul's message history posted
12-17-99: Q&A guys feature added.
12-16-99: Funny but short article, Sage Words from the Fighter posted.
12-09-99: The first On Trial, over Final Fantasy Job Classes posted.
11-??-99: Aria di Profondità Saturate added
11-30-99: Tiny bit of customization added for use of the 'info bar' and font size.
11-28-99: (Semi-)permanent home found on RedRival.com. We move into redrival.com/salamando/
11-26-99: Kuno's Excellent Adventure added. Whee!
11-23-99: Longwinded rant about people getting us kicked off of XOOM and trying to get us kicked off of Redrival. Soon we find who the real bitc- erm, culprit is.
11-20-99: Icons added to Features. Later changed to a download section.
11-11-99: Review of Soul Calibur posted.
11-11-99: Rant about school, promising of random updates.
11-10-99: The page is kicked the second time from XOOM.com. We send our death robots to retrieve the heads of the CEOs, only to find abysmal failure. Temporary haven on freeservers.com.
10-30-99: Funky Parappa C Rapper thing added for nerds.
10-24-99: JavaScript maze added as a feature.
10-16-99: Article on Klondike Solitaire posted, Minute-Review style.
9-??-99: Added personal sections, now reduced to just Evk and WrexSoul
9-29-99: Editorial about Secret of Evermore posted. And boy does it stink.
9-27-99: The Script Shredder added. The masses cheer.
9-23-99: Minute Review of WWF Attitude posted.
9-20-99: Making Comics feature added. Only redeeming factor to its boringness is new comics
9-13-99: Minute Review of Chrono Trigger
9-13-99: Linked to articles about the PS2.
8-??-99: Added personal sections, now reduced to just Evk and WrexSoul
8-29-99: Message Boards/Poll added. Huzzah, further on our way toward the original goal.
8-24-99: Added Xeon as a 'staff member.' Back then all that meant was he wrote an article.
8-23-99: Xeon posts his first review, a minute review of Dragonball GT: Final Bout.
8-21-99: Minute Review - Secret of Mana posted
8-20-99: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night review posted.
8-19-99: First Minute Review, Illusion of Gaia posted.
8-19-99: Linked to some dreamcast articles. pleh.
8-19-99: Rant about what I was hoping for from the page. I bitch about people who don't help, give up on links idea.
8-14-99: Report a few pages, mostly ones that suck. Realize the idea is going nowhere fast.
8-14-99: Try idea of scouring search engines for video game pages. Turn up mostly shit.
8-12-99: Added a page for 800x600 users. Found it a pain in the ass to update. (now the page is always ok for 800x600)
8-10-99: Second feature, and still one of my favorites, the Upcoming RPG Title Generator Added
8-10-99: Linked to VERGE. Whee
8-10-99: Attempt to have site coverage/news as a feature/pull. I'm glad we abandoned this.
8-09-99: LORD - Legend of the Red Dragon review posted.
8-09-99: I linked some shit because it seemed like the thing to do at the time.
8-09-99: I linked Zany VG Quotes
8-08-99: Lunar: The Silver Star Story, our first article, is posted. Huzzah!
8-08-99: Even more linking frenzy! Boy that was just a lot of linking.
8-08-99: Salamando Radio opens and is in business! Huzzah! WrexWradio retired.
8-07-99: Very first original content offered by the Stove: The Choose Your Own Cliché RPG!
8-07-99: Linked my first article ever, some Hisotry of Streetfighter thing I wandered into.
8-07-99: Trying to relay news to the VG audience, I didn't realize that it would be a lot of work and I could never do it as efficiently as those huge shitty VG news/potal pages that all suck.
8-06-99: Grand-opening of Salamando's Stove! With little more than a wing and a prayer, some animated stove graphics, a feature and an article, I started down the path of VG homepage-ness. Boy it all sucked back then but we didn't care!
8-06-99: Long rant about the creation of the page, which can be found in the history of the Stove.