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When did SCAR first come out?
Haha now you're pushing it.. I really couldn't put an exact date on it, but I think I first got my paws on it around 2002, although I'm more than likely wrong, I may have found it around 2003 but it had been alive for about 18 months before that. So 2001ish, with the crazy features like findcolorspiral and istextat :P
Was Kaitneiks (SP?) forum a lot of fun?
It was great, very mature group.
Who all was there? Was it a big community?
I don't want to try and name people and I dont have access to the forum database, but a lot of the scripters you know now were the little noobs back on the forum then. mopar is the first name that comes to mind
It was getting large and I was really enjoying it. For some crazy reason jagex literally did not know about it for a long while. If you aren't aware, kaitnieks wrote scar and autorune, and autorune was a crazy shock to jagex back in the day, they had to rewrite huge chunks of code to stop it. Put simply, they were scared of kaitnieks alone, let alone a community led by him. Shit hit the fan and threats of criminal charges and extradition to the UK put an end to it very quickly.
After Kaitneiks Forum went away, what other forum(s) took its place?
None. There were a few java guys fiddling with the client at the time, aryan was around but in our opinions not really going anywhere productive, and generally a lot of us fell out of the loop. sdouble, asdf, pups, myself, kaitnieks, and another few names I've forgotten all kind of had nowhere to go. asdf tried to keep us all going and get the community relocated but it never got off the ground.
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What country did Kaitneiks come from? (USA? I remember reading otherwise.)
Latvia. Near Russia and still feeling the strong effects of communism.