The home of the Bushey's
How it Began
The Shire was first brought on line in early 1984 on a Tandy
1000sx (yep an 8088 4.77mhz with 256k of ram) and a 2400 baud
modem. The Shire started out as place for ultra geeks in the
telecommunication world to duke it out over various topics.
Pretty much it was by invitation only. In 1985 I became the
President of the MS-DOS users SIG of the Mountain View Users
Group and opened the board to all members and then to the
general public. By the end of '85 the Shire was on the Fido Net
and I was an NC for Southern Arizona. this required that I
upgrade to a 9600 baud USR HST modem :-} (Let me tell you, in
1985 that was really hot stuff). In 1986 I added UUCP E-Mail to
the internet. In 1989, the Shire relocated to Phoenix (with me
in tow...). It was upgraded to a '386 and demoted to being just
a plain old Fido Node.... around 1991 it gained a pair of
V.32bis modems and a new BBS package known as Excaliber. With
this change I somehow found myself being the International
Coordinator for ExNet. Then in 1992 Jim Graham found his way
into The Shire looking a little lost and in need of Immediate
adoption. Well from there we built The Shire to a non-profitable
300 user system and shut it down in 1993 due to lack of funds.
We changed the name to hobbiton.com and installed dedicated ISDN
in 1993. In 1994 Hobbiton moved to Virginia. In late 1995 we
installed a dedicated T-1. In March of 2002 it moved again to
upstate NY on a cable modem.
Updates
11/02/02: update-- Hobbiton has moved one more time, I have
finally broken down and setup a web hosting account with another
company.
12/01/03 -- Hobbiton has landed in Florida and it's new home in
SurityNet (our own ISP). Moved everything back to it's own
internal hosting.
06/01/07 -- Hobbiton mail has gone to over 5000 pieces of spam a
day. I just realized that it is now over 22 years old on the
internet!
01/01/2010 -- Hobbiton has moved again.. it is now hosted on a
webhosting service as that SurityNet met its demise. While
moving it also got a face lift...
1/1/2011.. Moving Again :-} New web host....... New Look
07/2011 On the road again... Now in Arkansas
12/21/2015 -- Switching hosting service and gaining a new
facelift
About Me
This Site is not affiliated with any movie, book etc. that may
represent hobbits.
The Shire and Hobbiton are so named for their creator who looks
like a hobbit.