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1999
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After the release of The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, Ricky (Faygoluver) and Jeff (Jugglafaygo), who started to get more and more into the Dark Carnival and the ICP, decide to open a website. Having never made one, the 2 ninjas used site builders to produce it. The inspiration for the site name? These 2 Juggalos have mad "Luv" for Faygo. They both grew up in suburban Detroit, so Faygo was always their drink of choice. The relationship between ICP and Faygo impacted Jeff and Rick, so they named their site: FaYgoLuVeRS HeaVeN. Their skills improved, as well as their knowledge of the web. The crude html developed into tables and javascripts, and the once basic site was well on its way to becoming something more.
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2000
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This year was the big year for Faygoluvers Heaven. The year started with the development of the first frames layout for the site, which was its first step in modernization. Images also improved. No longer were they made solely by the free "Paintbrush" program on Windows. FLH's 2 webmasters also started to develop strong ties with other websites. One of their favorites was Scottie D's Psychopathic Shit (ScottieD.Freeservers.Com). Faygoluvers continued on, and then in November, made the first change into the new FaYgoLuVeRS HeaVeN. They asked if Scottie D and Toxic D would join forces with Jugglafaygo and FaYgoLuVeR and work with them on their website. They accepted. Towards the end of 2000, Jugglafaygo and FaYgoLuVeR produced a new layout that set a trend in Juggalo Websites. The layout with frames on the top and left was started, and they had a new style and soon a new crew. This was the turning point from bad to good in Faygoluvers Heaven.
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2001
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This is the year everything changed for FaYgoLuVeRS HeaVeN. Anyone who had seen the site at the beginning of 2001, then again at the end, would never recognize it. The first few months of the year were spent finishing the merge between FaYgoLuVeRs and Scottie D's site. FaYgoLuVeRS began using such advanced website options such as news publishing and interactive forms. There were many layouts this year, most all of them followed the same basic setup, but each had its own unique style. On top of this, new crew members came and went, such as JajsShaggz and Detroit Psycho. This year FaYgoLuVeRs went from servers such as Geocities and Virtualave, to an actual webserver. 2001 was also the year of DNL (Da NuThOuSe LuNaTiKs), the affiliation of WCJuggalos, Faygoluvers, KillerFunhouse, KillerClowns, Psycho Jokas, and Canadian Juggalo. DNL Started the DNL Board, and had its own topsites, its own popular website, and a flourishing message board. But towards the end of the year, WCJ went through troubling times and died. Killer Funhouse had Server troubles, the other sites lost contact with Canadian Juggalo, and DNL Crumbled. FaYgoLuVeRs went to work on the next big thing, making its new layout, adding members such as IVK of WCJ, snotFXCE, and lunchboX. Also, 2001 said good bye to co-founder Jugglafaygo. Him and the site didnt see eye to eye anymore, and had buisiness troubles, so he went on his way to Echoside.com. The year closed out with the beginning of FaYgoLuVeRs New era, called FLH. FLHBoard Came into effect, and a new trend of NoFrames layouts came into action. Another big note for this year dealt with the release of the original Dark Lotus album. It was released at the Toledo, Ohio Juggalo Gathering. The night that we purchased it, we drove from Toledo to Detroit, Michigan to FaYgoLuVeR's crib. The reason? We would be the first website to have Dark Lotus available for download...in RealPlayer format of course. News of this spread, and FLH's hits grew exponentially overnight!
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2002
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This year was another really big one for FLH. Word was getting out to Juggalos on the internet, and they kept coming back on the daily! By this point, Toxic D had basically let a woman take over his life, so he slowly vanished from the whole web AND Juggalo scene. But with Scottie D, DBM (aka 2bit), Eklipz (formerly of RJ), and TwiztidSlim checking in with daily news updates, and IVK, FaYgoLuVeR, and DBM schoolin it behind the scenes, Faygoluvers never looked better! Some drama also went down with FLH's domain name this year. The people who Faygoluvers.COM were registered to, NameZero, fucked up their records and didn't renew FLH's domain, even though we paid them promptly. A domain registrant out of Taiwan grabbed the domain name, and then wanted to charge us $5,000 for us to get it back. Now keep in mind, we were barely breaking 1,000 hits a day at this point, so that was an outrageous price for them to ask. In a bind, we quickly purchased the domain name Faygoluvers.net, and it has stayed ever since! (We also have it registered through 2007, so there's no way we're losing it this time!) This was also the year that FLH was invited to be a part of 2002's official Gathering of the Juggalos! This year, FLH, along with RealJuggalos.com, CanadianJuggalo.com, UKJuggalos.com, and HatchetRydaz.com all repped their sites with a booth in the main area of the Gathering, right by the merch booths! Needless to say, we had a lot of traffic throughout the 3 day event, and it did nothing but further spread the word about FLH!
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2003
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The Sixth Joker's Card had now been released, and Faygoluvers.net was ready to make some drastic changes. We now had a thriving message board, and were getting ready to make a HUGE leap in our layout. IVK was the mastermind behind all of it, and did he ever come correct! In 2003, FLH released a multi-themed layout that completely blew anything we had done before that out of the water. At the time of its first release, we had more than a dozen themes to choose from, and it grew from there. Several ninjas helped with the graphics on the layouts, and Faygoluvers grew without a hitch through the rest of the year. With the new layout came an all new user login system, tons of new content, and much more on the verge! This year, we also added a resident nutcase, named AxSylum. He stayed around and helped answer questions that were submitted by Juggalos and Juggalettes ranging from relationship issues, to whether or not they should beat somebody down. This was great, until they locked him back up in a padded room. (I'm not making this up people!) But after he skitzed at the Gathering this year and had a panic attack, nobody whould have been too surprised...
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2004
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This year has been nothing short of rocky. In mid February, our entire site crashed. There isn't a clear cut explanation of how it happened, though we all have our theories. So for 6 months, the entire page was news only. It was Scottie D holdin' it down on the news page just about every day, while several people tried to get the site back up and running. At one point, we had converted everything that we had into HTML, and were going to try and launch it like that. But then our homie freEkjokA of TheSixth.com came along and said that he was willing to give reconstructing our site a go! Within a week's time, the old Faygoluvers.net was back up and on top of it's game! Since then, many sections have been added, D-FENS has come on as our official video editing ninja, TwiztidSlim, freEkjokA, kffk, and myself keep the news on track, and 2bit is still helping out with all of the graphics work! One other exciting thing that happened was that FLH won a Hell's Pit contest, where the winner got 20 tickets to Detroit's Hallowicked! freEkjokA made a flash theme in preparation for the 2nd installment of the 6th Joker's card: "Hell's Pit", and DFENS made a killer commercial for it. We won the top prize, and quite a few of us made it to Hallowicked in 2004. We're at 5 years on the web so far, and it doesn't look like we'll be going away any time soon!
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2005
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Ahh 2005. This year was probably the biggest year for Faygoluvers.net yet! At this point, we are getting 10's of thousands of unique visits every single day, and the numbers just keep growing! Even more themes have been added to the list, bringing it to over 2 dozen now! Webmasters have come, and gone, but Scottie D is still holdin' it down almost daily with the news. Other features that we added this year were the "Ask Bonko" section, an extensive Reviews section that has been pioneered by Kevin Dank, more artists, tons of music videos, and more Real Audio than ever! This is also the year that we switched to hopefully our last web host ever: DevilHosting. They saw how much we were bringing every day, and we jumped at the chance to have them be the official web host of Faygoluvers.net! With them being part of our family, a ton of other Juggalo sites followed suit, and we were able to provide our readers with a LOT more content than ever before!
Another big thing that happened for us was the 2005 Gathering contest. It was announced at all of Psychopathic's official sites that a Gathering Booth would be given to the top 4 websites that schooled their websites in preparation for the 2005 Juggalo Gathering. Again, freEkjokA put his graphic abilities to work, and Scottie D put together an extensive section showing reviews, pictures, videos, and more of the 5 previous Gatherings. It was enough to win a booth, alongside our homies at JuggaloNews.com, WestCoastJuggalos.com, and JuggaloParty.com. You can see a review of the 2005 gathering Right Here! We continued to bring the news every day, staying on top of our game, but the end of 2005 had us yearning for more...
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2006
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As I type this, it's early in 2006. We have extensive plans for early this year, bringing new features, bringing back old favorites, and completely restructuring the website. More on that is soon to come...
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