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Here are two yearly reviews that I compiled, documenting Populous history on the Internet from 2004-2005.
2005
Spring
- Devil's Age: PHP and HTML broke away
- Populous 4: Age of Chaos BETA was released
- The Shaman's Home's forums opened to the public
- Populous Revolution's forum gained 20,000 posts
Summer
- The Shaman's Home turned three years old
- Lack of updates hit again
- JohnNet.co.uk was established
- Matchmaker services were created
- Populous 4: Age of Chaos Final Version was released
- Chaotic Gaming (owned by Populous Revolution) was set up
- A new version of the Populous Story made it's way to the Shaman's Home
Autumn
- Populous Refurbished, a copy of the EA site, was set up and then disappeared
without a trace
- 15,000 hits to the Shaman's Home, with visits from over 40 countries
- Populous: Tribal Conquest was set up on the Chaotic Gaming network in order to
revamp the Populous game with new, cool things
Winter
- Devil's Age PHP moved to the Johnnet.co.uk domain
- Hackers wreaked havoc over Populous sites.
- Major inactivity at the Shaman's Home :)
2004
Spring
- The Shaman's Home came back for battle amongst the other dying Populous sites.
- Populous Revolution was born.
Summer
- Populous Revolution began the Populous Blogger.
- Populous: Dawn of a New Age and the Devil Team website combined to form
Populous: Dawn of a Devil's Age PHP and HTML site.
- The Populous Awards returned but disappeared again after two terms.
- The United Shaman's Society was established.
- The Official Populous 4 Site was born.
Autumn
- Plagiarism ran through many Populous sites but thankfully, most were fixed before
any damage was done.
- Version 5 brought the Shaman's Home into the limelight.
- The Shaman's Home 2½ Birthday brought more pictures and Version 5, the most
dynamic of the versions so far to the site.
- Populous: Dawn of a Devil's Age and Populous Revolution went to open war over
copying of pages.
- Populous Revolution and Populous: Dawn of a Devil's Age began their own awards.
- The Revolution Awards took place - the Shaman's Home won 3 awards.
Winter
- The Populous Reincarnated Network grew to over 2000 members - a massive
achievement for a game that is now just coming up to eight years old.
- Firefox was released bringing a few problems to sites regarding compatibility.
- The Revolution Awards took place - the Shaman's Home won 2 awards.
- An enquiry e-mail to EA about distribution of Populous ended the downloads of
Populous 3.
- Populous Revolution's Forum moved up in the world to gain over 400 members.
- The Shaman's Home moved server and formed the Umluk Network with the
Three Broomsticks at umluk.com.
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