The MSX Resource Center was created in 1994 by Sander van Nunen. Back then the site was hosted on his private account on XS4ALL. In 1996 Sander decided to register his own domain and started www.msx.org.
Until the end of 1998 the site was frequently updated, after this period the activities went down slowly. But at the end of 1999 Sander decided he wanted The MSX Resource Center to be more alive than ever, so he started a mailing list for people who were interested in developing a new site. Some people responded and after a while plans were made. In the beginning of 2000, Bart en Sander started developing the site you have been looking at until MRC2k11 was released. Later that year more people joined.
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| May 17th, 2000 | MSX Resource Center re-launched; Coded entirely from scratch in ASP, the MSX Resource Center modernized with user-generated content (links, submit news, post reactions)
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| June 20th, 2000 | MRC MILESTONE: 100 members
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| September 27th, 2000 | MSX Resource Center forum opened; with a very slow start and a couple of re-launches, it finally became the most active MSX forum on the web
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| November 12th, 2000 | MRC MILESTONE: 100,000 visits
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| April 5th, 2001 | MRC MILESTONE: 500 members
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| April 22nd, 2001 | Report of Nishi's lecture to Tilburg 2001; the publication - and the big news on the MSX revival - boosted visits to the MRC significantly
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| September 25th, 2001 | MSXPLAYer beta preview; removed several days after publication, MRC had managed to get their hands on a very alpha beta version of the emulator. Again a huge peak in our visitor count and quite a bit of downtime because our server could not cope with it.
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| March 31st, 2002 | MRC MILESTONE: 200,000 visits
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| April 26th, 20002 | EGG starts selling MSX retrogames embedded in MSXPLAYer
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| June 6th, 2002 | Emulator Comparison published; first of its kind head-to-head emulator comparison
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| August 25th, 2002 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,500,000 visits
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| October 15th, 2002 | MRC MILESTONE: 1,000 members
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| December 8th, 2002 | MSX Resource Center defaced
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| December 18th, 2002 | MSX Resource Center completely restyled; user activity on MRC went to the roof after this restyle, on which the site is still mainly based
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| December 18th, 2002 | MSX Resource Center becomes a Foundation
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| January 1st, 2003 | First MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
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| January 9th, 2003 | MSX Resource Center installs policy to keep atmosphere on the site clean
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| February 17th, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,000 MSX forum posts
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| March 20th, 2003 | MSX Resource Center visits - and reports about MadriSX 2003
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| April 4th, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 3,000 MSX forum posts
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| May 20th, 2003 | Freeware MSX downloads corner opened on the MRC
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| May 31st, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 500,000 visits
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| May 31st, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 1,000 news posts
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| June 29th, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 5,000 MSX forum posts
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| October 3rd, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 10,000 MSX forum posts
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| October 20th, 2003 | Spanish MSX Resource Center launched; MSX Resource Center becomes multilingual
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| November 15th, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 1,500 members
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| November 22nd, 2003 | MRC Snowfall Challenge; first MSX development competition initiated by MSX Resource Center (not counting the Scroll & Logo challenge)
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| November 23rd, 2003 | Dutch MSX Resource Center launched
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| December 6th, 2003 | MSX Resource Center goes to (and reports on) ASCII MSX Magazine Festival Japan; snout shakes hands with Nishi, setting the first steps for the MSX revival outside Japan
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| December 28th, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 1,000,000 visits
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| December 30th, 2003 | MRC MILESTONE: 1,500 news posts
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| January 1st, 2004 | Second MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
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| January 7th, 2004 | MRC Snowfall Challenge closes with 25 entries
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| January 13th, 2004 | Wammes Witkop head of MRC Snowfall Challenge Jury; the legend returns... shortly
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| April 27th, 2004 | MRC MILESTONE: 20,000 MSX forum posts
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| May 14th, 2004 | Portuguese MSX Resource Center launched
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| May 16th, 2004 | MRC Under Water challenge closes with 11 entries
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| May 28th, 2004 | MRC MILESTONE: 1,500,000 visits
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| June 3rd, 2004 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,000 members
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| June 30th, 2004 | MRC MILESTONE: 25,000 MSX forum posts
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| August 16th, 2004 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,000 news posts
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| October 12th, 2004 | MRC Bounce Challenge closes with 15 entries
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| December 5th, 2004 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,000,000 visits
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| December 14th, 2004 | Bombaman level edit challence closes with 13 entries
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| December 27th, 2004 | MRC MuSiXmas challenge closes with 11 entries
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| January 1st, 2005 | Third MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
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| January 27th, 2005 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,500 members
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| February 22nd, 2005 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,500 news posts
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| March 4th, 2005 | MRC Airwaves Challenge closes with 7 entries
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| March 20th, 2005 | MRC moves to dedicated web hosting; MRC has grown to need a whole web server of its own
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| March 23rd, 2005 | MSX T-Shirts on sale; coloring all MSX fairs since in blue
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| March 28th, 2005 | IGN Entertainment acquires MSX Resource Center; Well... in our first April Fools joke, they did
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| May 21st, 2005 | MSX World 2005 report and photo shoot; Another huge MSX fair in Japan, MRC was there to take the pictures!
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| May 27th, 2005 | MRC MILESTONE: 2,500,000 visits
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| August 5th, 2005 | MRC MILESTONE: 50,000 MSX Forum posts
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| September 29th, 2005 | MRC Oneliner Challenge closes with 36 entries
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| November 27th, 2005 | Russian MSX Resource Center launched
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| November 27th, 2005 | MRC MILESTONE: 3,000,000 visits
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| January 1st, 2006 | Fourth MRC Happy new years post with statistics on the year passed
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| March 6th, 2006 | MRC Scene Music Remake challence closes with 12 entries
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| May 23rd, 2006 | MRC MILESTONE: 3,000 members
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| June 22nd, 2006 | MRC MILESTONE: 250 links to MSX websites
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| July 28th, 2006 | MRC MILESTONE: 65,535 MSX Forum posts
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| November 5th, 2006 | MRC MILESTONE: 4,000,000 visits
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| November 12th, 2006 | MSXArt'06 closes with 25 entries
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| November 15th, 2006 | MSXArt'06 really closes with 27 entries
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