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This article contains summaries of the four incarnations of Kitsune Paradise. To read about them in more detail, simply click on their names.
Evolutionary Stages
Origin
It started out as an amateurishly-designed Digimon fansite named Digital Dimension on February 25, 2003. There wasn't too much of interest on there. The site was originally hosted by Kradorex of Digibase, then moved to Samui's own server towards the end of April, with the caveat of not being able to stay online 24/7. There were forums, but there is no recollection of their content.
At the end of May 2003, Samui had met Tuvis at Sonic CulT, and helped him set up CulT-Soft, which was also originally hosted on Digibase. Despite its name, CulT-Soft was not affiliated with Sonic CulT. In September 2003, it had moved to Tuvis' own server, which was also set up with Samui's help.
Over the course of the summer, Digital Dimension became slightly more themed around anime and gaming. And, on September 12, Digital Dimension's name was changed to Sigma.
Change
Samui had decided to change his online identity and website to "Sigma". It was still anime themed. It also had a roleplaying forum called "Battle Arena". He called it "The Multipurpose Server", because it served many purposes, such as netplay, Shoutcast, IRC, etc.
The site still was not able to stay online 24/7, until late December, when Samui received a wireless router for Christmas. That is when he decided to change the site again.
Open
On Christmas of 2003, Samui was finally able to keep his server online 24/7. In light of this change, he changed the site's name to "Digital Gate", and his identity changed back to "DigiAgent02". "Digital Gate" continued to be a gaming community. An attempt was made at a Digimon roleplaying board, but it was never finished. However, on the IRC channel, several roleplaying sessions were taking place that would eventually form the basis behind KitsuMUCK. In late Feburary 2004, Samui changed his name to "KitsuneNoYuki" or "YukiKitsunemon", the name of his main character.
Around May 2004, Samui added a forum called "Kitsune Discussion", and he made a new skin themed around kitsune which featured Vulpix and Ninetales. Soon afterwards, a Riven themed skin was added, along with five Myst discussion forums, one for each game in the series.
Digital Gate became more dedicated to roleplaying, the roleplaying forum seeing more activity than "Forum of Randomnity", a forum made just for the sole purpose of being random. Plans were made for creating a RPG system named "kRPG", which first saw the light in mid-October.
In late August, Samui decided that he wanted to change the domain to an actual domain. Originally, he was going to use "digitalgate.org", but that was already taken. Wanting to maintain the site's kitsune theme, he chose to change the name to "Kitsune Paradise", and opened it on September 18th.
Evolution
Samui opened Kitsune Paradise on September 18, 2004, which was his 18th birthday. The site went through a major overhaul from Digital Gate. The skin was changed to a dark blue forest theme, and used pictures of a fox drawn by his friend Kuro for its header. It was dedicated to classic gaming, roleplaying, and Kitsune.
In October, the forum software was upgraded to IPB 2.0. Also, Samui started work on a chat client designed specifically for roleplaying with multiple characters. It was named kRPG at the time. He released the first version on October 9th, and continued improving it over time. Around November, Samui revised the skin on the site to look a little less dark.
On December 25th, the first anniversary of Digital Gate's opening, Samui changed the layout of the front page of the site. It no longer ran on IP Dynamic Lite, and was coded almost entirely by Samui himself. He designed it to show the status of three game servers he had running - kRPG, Charred Dirt, and Kailerra Netplay.
At some point in March 2005, the layout of the front page was changed again, and a set of new skins were made. Most of the set were the same theme, just different colors. Two of them were upgrades of previous skins that were on Digital Gate, namely "Kitsune 1" and "Kitsune 2".
Around July 2005, a new skin was made for the site. This one was similar to the original Kitsune Paradise theme in that it was dark blue. It took on more of a standard roleplaying theme. Later on that month, a forum called "Therianthropy Discussion" was added to the board, where members who were interested in that subject could make discussions about it.
At the end of May 2007, the site went through another overhaul. This appearance had been maintained for over a year, until July 2008.
In the beginning of September 2007, the decision was made to move the spirituality part of the site to another site, called Kitsuhana.
Side Projects
kRPG
Being sick of the lag on AIM chats, Samui created a primitive chat system that was similar to IRC called kRPG. It allowed the use of multiple characters on one connection.
Kitsurian Chronicles
Kitsurian Chronicles is a story based on roleplaying events that have occured on IRC in 2004. There is intended to be three parts to the story which lead up to the events on KitsuMUCK.
