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This stance on the collecting and maintaining of the groups history stems from the massive loss of information that occurred due to lack of foresight, carelessness, hard drive wipes, and system failures in the pre-Dark Ages. Almost none of the history of those early years exists outside of scarce and incomplete Ventrilo recording, old forum posts hosted on free sites, and WoW screenshots. As such, most of that history is lost and unable to be accurately immortalized as it is completely at the whim of the historians memory piecing together what scant evidence is available.
This stance on the collecting and maintaining of the groups history stems from the massive loss of information that occurred due to lack of foresight, carelessness, hard drive wipes, and system failures in the pre-Dark Ages. Almost none of the history of those early years exists outside of scarce and incomplete Ventrilo recording, old forum posts hosted on free sites, and WoW screenshots. As such, most of that history is lost and unable to be accurately immortalized as it is completely at the whim of the historians memory piecing together what scant evidence is available.


=Foundation=
=Foundation & Friend Vault=
The concept of a cohesive collection of historically relevant materials began with the formation of [[Friend Zone]] in April of 2012 when Shelarahn began hosting the guilds website and doing graphic work for the group. At the time however, video recording wasnt as simple as it is now, and hardware limitations restricted video collection of most events, along with inexperience and lack of foresight, so even though the Friend Zone archives were well maintained, they were limited mostly to videos and text. Varied PoVs exist from the late Friend Zone era, but are mostly irrelevant to the COMMIEVERSE.
The concept of a cohesive collection of historically relevant materials began with the formation of [[Friend Zone]] in April of 2012 when Shelarahn began hosting the guilds website and doing graphic work for the group. At the time however, video recording wasnt as simple as it is now, and hardware limitations restricted video collection of most events, along with inexperience and lack of foresight, so even though the Friend Zone archives were well maintained, they were limited mostly to videos and text. Varied PoVs exist from the late Friend Zone era, but are mostly irrelevant to the COMMIEVERSE.