Neverside

Long Live TutorialForums

In the Summer of 2001, a website by the name of TutorialForums was released. By the powers of the founders David Dunkerly (AbsoluteCross), Akash Goel and Brian Fusco (Spoono) and of course Rob (Robouk) himself; a community built to support and help beginners (newbies) on their design work and development work.

Accompanying them in this venture were well-known and respected designers and developers! Such as Ryan Ford (liquisoft), Metabolite, Celerondude (Cdude) and many others. All contributed towards creating TutorialForums in the image of it's founders; a true utopia of help.

It has been the mission of the staff of TutorialForums since then to always uphold and value the principles and morals that have founded, built and maintained TutorialForums. That vision lives on today; as the heart and background of Neverside.

TutorialCentral

Believe it or not, the early concept of Neverside wasn't what it currently is. Back then, tutorial depositories were the craze. Robust websites with engines to allow anyone to submit tutorials and contribute to a central directory of education and knowledge. "TutorialCentral" was this concept as well.

The goal was to share the userbase with TutorialForums; making a network login that would allow you to access both sites from a single username/password. Simple in theory, redundant in many areas. After 6 months of development and planning, it dawned on us that we were expanding instead of recompricating and solving current bugs with TutorialForums. Back to the drawing board we went; to try and solve a bigger problem: A dying community.

Neverside

Many ask and wonder, why did we leave TutorialForums? The answer is as simple as anything else; the community grew and evolved from it's original principles and morals. Does that mean we abandoned our foundation? Absolutely not, but a drastic change was indeed needed to preserve and expand the community to it's full potential. Otherwise, we knew we would suffer something we knew the entire community didn't want; which was to die.

In January of 2004 is when the decision was handed down to 'migrate' the community under a new name and recreate it's concept in an evolved form... more to do, less to complain about. We knew embarking on this road it was going to met with angst, much hate and overall more degrading and belittling than most of us were prepared to handle at the time. We pressed on to create something in the image of the community, something that spoke of the community in it's own words.

TutorialCentral was original the name, however it still kept us identified in the world of beginner's only with such a term. Therefore, we did some abstract searching and came up with Neverside. Neverside to us means: Of Neither Side.

The Rebirth of a Community

Many doubt what we have done will change anything; sore losers we say. This community has survived being bought out and at the whim of a 3rd party corporate entity. If we didn't believe doing what we have done was for the better good and for the greater cause of the community, it would have never been done or thought of.

Unfortunately in this time, 3 of the founders would no longer be apart of this great community. Each left to pursue their own interests and goals for what they wanted. We will forever miss Akash Goel, Brian Fusco and Robouk.

With that; the founders of Neverside are David Dunkerly (AbsoluteCross), Shawn R. Lockheart (Locke) and Jeremie Pelletier (Jeremie).

Also, the founding of Neverside is not solely because of us. It is because of each and every member; staff or not. All of you sacrificed something, everyone gave their opinions and suggestions to create this community and give it the image it has today.

We will forever remember the true founder: The Community.

Neverside opened it's doors back to the community on March 5th of 2005. We have never looked back, and we have taken that which has brought us here and applied it to Neverside. Neverside has become the Member's Community, it will forever be known as that.

Neverside is: "Where Creativity's Limit is Imagination"