This site established on 08/11/2001

Higher Intellect was first started on a Mac Performa 6320 with a text collection of 300mb obtained from a Hotline server called Fodder's Land. In late 2001, the site preterhuman.net was made public. We launched on a Compaq ProLiant 5500 with two 10gb hard disks. For the first four months, popularity surged and we formed an online community featuring a few key members who are still with us today including netfreak, Firestorm, MrJ, Orbital Binary, Ciricon, and necro2607.

We've had some issues with stability over the years, including the servers being hosted on several different ISPs in two different cities and random hardware failure along the way. We've also made quite a few enemies, including the old Badmoon Hotline server and some renegade Christians. We have now recenty settled into a secure and stable datacenter with new hardware and massive bandwidth provided by altexxanetworks. This is the preterhuman.net of 2006.

It is our goal to continue building the archive indefinitely. The internet is constantly changing and many sites hosting valuable content seem to be disappearing. The preterhuman.net site has been operational since 2001, and will continue to remain open and free to the public.

Related: sources, our server, forums, museum, 68K.