Nekochan.net

Nekochan.net was a website registered on January 21st, 2000 according to public WHOIS. It was founded by Nekonoko, real name Peter Plank, who started it for the purpose of discussing SGI software and hardware. In 2003, the Nekochan forums were started and Nekochan.net became an intensely popular icon in the Silicon Graphics community as the main hub for non-corporate users of SGI hardware and software. It was shut down May 21st, 2018 under alleged GDPR compliance issues.

History

Nekochan.net's founder Peter Plank was a very private individual, but what is known of him is that he is/was a very enthusiastic collector of vintage machines of various kinds, but especially SGI software/hardware.

The assets of Nekochan.net were drawn by Peter himself, and he even had a manga called Rimu Revolution.

Nekochan.net's forums were the primary SGI community from 2003 through 2017, when competitors began to pop up.

Contents

The main domain was a blog powered by "Movable Type", a popular early 2000s blog software which was used to announce nekoware packages and the like.

The forums hosted more than 2,000 members and 15 years of posts. It had its heyday prior to 2010 and by 2018 it was described by many as a "ghost town, old man's club, or elitist shithole"

The wiki was preserved onto wiki.preterhuman.net but many articles were out of date or plain wrong. TechPubs, which descends from the later IRIXNet wiki, supersedes many articles.

The gallery is preserved at IRIXNet's Silicon Image [1]

Legacy

IRIXNet was the first community to try and capture the same audience. It was joined by the Silicon Graphics User Group in early 2020. Other sites have popped up as well.