Early days of TNTable
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Early Days
Prior to Discord, Skype was the most common way we all chatted while playing the server. We had a group chat and would start calls everyday after school and play on the Minecraft server together.
In 2014, a Blogspot page existed to provide updates on the server. It can be found here.
The server switched to 24/7 operation on July 4th, 2014 as announced in this blog post.
In the early days we did lots.
Built War Ridden, the map we have is an old version, nowhere near what we had accomplished. We got pretty close to feature complete and had a really cool spawn area. The files may still be out there on a hard drive sitting in a basement. If that happens there will be updates to the map renders and world downloads. We even did public play tests.
We also had a plugin server in the early days, though that world is long gone.
We started with a server on my Sony laptop I believe, but then changed it to an old Compaq? desktop. Then eventually we pooled our money together to bid on a desktop in a charity auction from an office. We raised $230? to bid for it and won the second best. It served us very well for the next few years.
There was also a world where we replaced all the water with lava one time. It lasted less than 48 hours. We did give everyone elytra but it was not very fun.
The Minecraft server used to run with the Minecraft game and LogMeIn. Then It moved to the server jar, then to MineMC? which was an early days Minecraft server admin dashboard. Then switching to Pterodactyl Panel in sometime.
Server History
The TNTable Community servers have been run by David for over 10 years. It began with running servers on a Sony Vaio Laptop for school projects and eventually one that was up for certain hours of the day.
Once an old computer was acquired, the server began to gain more functionality. The connection was still Wi-Fi based but now it could run for longer and unattended. This computer had 4GB of DDR2 RAM, and an 80GB ATA hard drive. It was slow, but it got the job done enough for us to still have a good time.
Eventually the server gained an Ethernet connection, though it was through powerline adapters so not ideal but an improvement. Then the server was upgraded through a computer auction and fundraising within the group. This marked the first real performance uplift the server got.
Eventually we pooled the money together to get a more powerful machine in an office auction. It ran the TNTable server faithfully until January 2021 when a new server was built to host the server. The old server computer was still in use as a general purpose server for David for another number of years. Then, in spring 2025 that server was finally decommissioned from use. It served for over a decade quietly working away. The fate of that computer is yet to be determined. As of July 2025 is is sitting in David's apartment.