Bond Station's history roots back to early December of 2000. TWINE was released a few weeks earlier and I started hacking it out the gate. I hacked as many codes as I could (avoiding GSCCC's hacks) and creating my own. These codes were being submitted to my favorite site of all-time, GSCentral.

Now, somehow me and a guy by the name of SKPN worked on a site, "TWINE 2000". Now this period is a little sketchey to me because I don't remember how me and SKPN became partners. I'm pretty sure he contacted me. I don't know how---maybe he saw my codes on GSCentral, I don't know. Anyway we agreed to get this TWINE site going (TWINE 2000). He was the webmaster and I agreed to be the hackers. For a span of a few weeks I hacked codes, after codes, after codes. Along the way we recruited N64 Wizard. This would be our all-around TWINE guy. He submitted various TWINE content but he was mainly known for his beta stuff. He even found all the characters with their corresponding digits for my character modifier codes.

As the weeks (yes weeks) went by SKPN grew tired some reason. He no longer wanted the site. I don't quite remember what happened there. So, basically, he jumped his own ship, leaving me stranded. I decide to raise the sail. I get me a site after days of thinking for some "lame" name. Bond Station I thought would cover it. I knew I would be covering TWINE mostly but I also knew that I loved GoldenEye and that there would be more Bond games to come (I was right ;)). The name stuck. It seemed generic at the time but when I look back at it now I kinda like it.

Anyway, back to the site. I get the sub-domain site on Freeserver's server: www.bond-station.8m.com. N64 Wizard comes along...sorta. He helps me a little with things, we're still friends. He designed some of the graphics and gave me some more beta stuff (thanks man!). But I guess he got tired (of TWINE) after a while. I continue on as usual.

Over the two year period since I have had two looks for the site. This one now and the old one. The old one was really crappy, and if you want to see it go to www.archive.org and type in the "http://www.bond-station.8m.com". They archive every website on the net! The old look (Version 1 as I refer to it as) was when I had no knowledge of HTML. I was still a newbie to the internet pretty much. Go figure!

The site has grown to cover more Bond games and even some non-Bond games. We've even had an address change recently (www.gameallegiance.com/bs/). Some wonder why I don't get Bond Station the true domain it might deserve but I don't see it necessary. As long as the site is up and thriving, to me, that's all that really matters. Bond Station is here now... and hopefully years to come.

P.S. Maybe I'll revise this in the future and dig even DEEPER. There's lots of stories to tell about the other people who've helped along the way. I just wanted to get the founders in there.

P.P.S. That old site I used to work for, TWINE 2000 is still up (in a way). It was brought back up by Deadeye (founder of Raredark/Deadeye's Basement) and he put the main page back up on a different server. Currently it can be found at this address: http://www.100megsfree2.com/twine2000/. That's pure nostalgia for me, baby!

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