Sodom has been started at 11 June of 1995, by one Russian guy, who
decide prove him self, that he can do the same, i.e start a successfull
group, and get it on the top. He used to known as KNike from 92 to
94. In the begining of 1995, he change he's nick to Tok. Word "Tok" in
Russian language means "Power, High Voltage". He used to be one of the
Karate Do style "Shatokan" man in Russia. 2 years late he add "Saint"
to his nick, because of a lot of reasons.
Tok start looking around, for dedicated guys who can help Sodom.
Netrunner came up with name 'Sodom' and it stayed for good, as Label Name.
3d person who join Sodom was Jack in The Box (used to have GhostRider
and Mr Reflex nicks). Jack bring a lot of fun in the group.
All Sodomers was one of the most popular pirates in Russia, and there was
no problem with advertising, everyone knew that new powerfull group on the
way, and quite soon everyone will see something quality from those guys.
Some time late when 187 (Rebelion Authority, Sodom Whq bbs, Sweden) join
Sodom, and other respected guys like:
Emigree (Splatter King, Sodom Ehq bbs),
Explozive (#1 Russian Courier),
Captain Power (#1 Saint Petersburg Coder/Cracker)
no one even doubt that Sodom will rock this place.
Sodom was new, and they release everything they found funny, Cracks,
Addons, Utils, and even some Games. But in the end of 1995 Sodom turned
into Utils and Utils Cracks only.
This file taken from 1995 Summer Time. 1st Advertising and Propaganda
text File to Scene. Jack-In-The-Box used to be Advertizing Sodom Agent.
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SODOM's MANIfESTO
If you still havent heard about SOdOM.. you're damn lagged, man! =)
And to keep ya informed, here are some tiny things and facts about
us. The group was originally formed by T0k (Da Prezident) at Summer-95,
mainly as a traders group over Internet.
High council members are living in St.Petersburg [Russia], some guys
are from Moscow [Russia] and the rest are foreigners - US, Sweden,
Germany, Australia, whatever.. =)
By a couple of months, since group started to grow up, we developed
our goals into some more accurate policy.
First of all, we are NOT solely couriering group anymore. We believe
there are enough courier groups on scene already who can do brilliant
job. The speed of distributing releases over Inet/BBSes is almost at
the edge of todays technology.. So we see no obvious reasons to float
on the full-loaded ship.
Instead of rushing for bytes or seconds, we are goin to..
- Release Russian software as DOD used to do before moving West.
- Spread this with our own traders division onto affiliate boards
and sites for further distribution.
- Produce some quality intros and cracktros as long as we believe
scene is not 100% warez case, there are alot of other funny things to do.
- Produce our own electronic mag. The perfect example of great scene
mag is "PAIN" by Chicken and ULi from Switzerland (used to exist
in 1994-95).
- and keep our group as friendly as possible towards others..
The most important thing is that we have some members from Amiga
and C64 scene (I'm from C64 myself). And as far as these guys know
computer underground better than any PC-only freak (their can compare
how things are running on different platforms), we are goin to take
all the best from their experience!
Some slots for entering SOdOM are still vacant. But to become real
part of our family, please read the following and think about it.
These rules are simple:
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- WE ACCEPT PEOPLE WHO HAVE SENSE OF HUMOUR.
We DONT accept attackers, stupidos, ignorant ppl and ego-addicts.
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- THE BEST AGE IS BETWEEN 18 AND 24 YEARS, by this age the person is
generally formed (mental and moral) and talk less bullshit.
Kids are NOT welcome, no matter how fast is your IP-link. =)
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- WE WOULD LIKE TO MEET PEOPLE WHO KNOW SCENE' FLAVA AND TRADITIONS.
Most of our members taking a part in scenelife for 5 years or more.
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- GREAT IF YOU LIKE SNAIL-MAIL.
Swapping old-style letters by mail is fun.
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Thats almost it..
written by Jack-In-The-Box [SDM I-Net Coord.]
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It was a time, when Leadership, was busy with advertising on the Internet,
ran shitloads of projects, to get Sodom a little bit known. Brawley was
a person, who made Logo and Diz for Sodom. Leadership did not knew, that
it was a diz, which they will use for good. Logo was not too much cute
to use.
---------------------------------------[ 1995 Sodom logo by Brawley ]----
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/:____ \ __/ \ ;__\ \ __/ \ \__ \
( ; _\ \ ; _\ \ _\ \ ; _\ \ ; _\ \
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\____/SodOM\____/ \____/ \____/-eB-\____/
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But Diz... ahh, Not much group around can say, that they still using
the same diz for 3+ years.
-----------------------------------------[ Sodom Diz by Brawley ]--------
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_\____ \ ;_/ \ ;__\ \ ;_/ \ \__; \
\_____ )____.__)____. )___.__)___\_. \
\____/ 10/Dd/95 \____/-/=SodOM=\-\____/
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okey, let us remind you a little from Tok history....
Tok used to has "T0k" nick on Irc, since there was some one else with Tok
nick, and he decide do not waste he's time to go with _TOK ot shit like
that.
Back to Sodom History...
At this time competition was hard, Pwa, Dod, Corp, was most popular
and respected groups because of they quality and ultra good releases.
Since Sodom was 70% of Russian guys, and 30% of guys from Russia, Sodom
has released a lot of quality russian titles which was in english
language, like: Stylus lingvo Office.
In the begining there was no traffic of releases, and it's hard to remember
how big was average of releases and mb's of releases per month. Tok
and Netrunner spend ton's of time per day to bring Sodom to the top
and they allways trying to be not involved to the fightings or crap wars.
You have to know a lot of things, and to undestand what people trying
to say to you, if you want to keep your self outside of wars, and figths.
Sodom was too young to deal with Risc/ RTS/ or even Malice (which was
the top couriering groups at this time. '95 and early 1996). So next
step was cooperation with "motiv8".
Motiv8 was the 1st and the last official courier group for Sodom.
In the end of 1995 Tok (Sodom), Igor and Mason (Motiv8) decided to stick
up together. Motiv8 helped Sodom a lot those times. Nihil used to be
Motiv8 WHQ, and it was times when couriers support sites under "group"
login. Sodom got Nihil as they 1st WHQ on the NET. Davan was probably
only one on the scene who got all pre-releases from Sodom. Funky thing
is, that Lester steal Davan to DOD, 6 months later, and after that in
some time Davan quit the scene for good. Davan was 1st and #1 Sodom
courier on the world sites back in 1995'96. It's a pitty that he is not
in the group now a days.
But Mason (Motiv8 founder) was rarely on irc, Igor (Motiv8 Council) got
in a big big vacation, and some shitheads dont even remember he's nick
decided to kick off Sodom from Official Couriers. 1 Week late, Igor
ask Sodom to come back, and deal with Motiv8 again, but it was too late.
Sodom was 'independent'. And it was one of the most important things
for the group.
Since Tok and Netrunner used to be students, and at Spring time of
1996 they was overloaded with work and university in the same time,
Sodom was sorta slow those times. After a little downhill, Tok came
back and bring it back on 8 or 7 place in the world chart of all utils
groups. From this time Katz was promoted to Senior position, and Sensi
joined as Long Distance courier.
You can ask why i said about Katz and Sensi? Because one year late they
both will be close to be Sodom leaders, but let's continue with middle
of 1996 periud.
At this time, Sodom known as powerfull, and most important thing that it is
friendly group, w/o enemies, and fights. Sodom sites was wonderful:
Progressive - Sodom whq - Was top3 site during the Summer of 1996,
Ramirez (Devotion) was the person who bring this site to the top because
of he's kickass xftpd code knowledge. Siteops was Tok and Ramirez. It
was like a Dream Team in NBA. In 1 month, they bring this site on
the top! The only one shame thing was... box owner 'problems'. Site
owner decided to close site because of real life reasons.
During the 1996 Summer time, major groups was in big big troubles.
Dod has a lot of weeks w/o releases, because other groups stole a lot of
Dod suppliers, and Jimmy James was on vacation. Pwa w/o Orion was in the
same atmosphere. So competition was not so hard. To be honest.. it was
the begining of 'www warez' and 'cracked shareware', which is not realy
fun.
At this time, Infernal Flames
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