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The history of #TheVoid is long and cumbersome... so here it is:
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Records of the dark ages are few and far between, revealing only sketchy clues about what life was like in this time at the edge of memory. It is generally agreed that #warez_fserv on NewNet was a wonderful place full of faries and elves and many cool things, but as noone has a clear memory of this, we must simply rely on all of the factual evidence available. It was a warez channel. With fserves.
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From the endless black hole, a.k.a. real life, ventured some nut who called himself Ditto_001. This lamer decided he wanted to form a hacker group, and he did, calling it The New Order. Another nut named MazrimTaim, a.k.a. Kheldar, joined this group somewhere in 1998, making a grand total of two members.
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The (two) members of TNO were content not to have an IRC channel of their own. It was around time that #warez_fserv broke up that Exploited joined the team. However, he was also a member of a (barely) older group called EterNity. As the land of joy and prosperity and of warez and fserves faded away, the members of EterNity and TNO merged into a new channel, creatively named #EterNity&TNO. During this time, PuMMeL and TheElite joined the ranks of TNO.
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For some time, EterNity and TNO lived together in harmony, but eventually differences arose between Ditto_001 and Excidius, the founder of EterNity. They broke up, and the five members of TNO agreed that it was time they started their own channel. And so the glorious and infamous #tno arose, for all the world to see.
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Soon, TodeFish joined and for a time #tno was a utopia for intellectual coding and scripting and whatnot. But yet again, Ditto_001's stupidity brought chaos and TodeFish responded in like with stupidity of his own. Exploiting the co-foundership that Ditto_001 had entrusted him with, he comandeered #tno for himself and banned Ditto_001. But from the burning embers of this exclusive band arose the loyal, intelligent, and charmingly dashing TheElite, who hacked TodeFish's password and recovered the channel, thereby saving Ditto_001's ass.
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Many many funny, wacky, happy, sad, and downright idiotic (mostly originating from Ditto_001) things happened in #tno. Sephiroth and Rocky joined TNO, and, many friends of the group emerged, originating from the dark ages, #hackers (and related channels), #phrozen, and #slackware.
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However in late 2000, activity in #tno dropped, and soon it was normal for only one or two people to be in the channel at any time. Eventually, the only one who remained for any significant period of time was a loyal soul named residue.
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Then, on November 9, 2001, some of us got back together in #tno, and we gathered some of the old reguars. TheElite proposed moving to Ditto_001's IRC server (irc.shanock.com), and LordLinux proposed that he could manage the group in light of Ditto_001's laziness. So Ditto_001 (fearless leader) took things even further by proposing the total dissociation of TNO and the formation of a new, less formal channel. All present agreed, and thus, #TheVoid was born.
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