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Revision as of 21:38, 2 March 2007
Contents
About
What is the Acorn Cafe?
The Acorn Cafe is the heart and soul of the Rescue Ranger Fan Community. Though it serves as a place where members of the community can display their art and stories the point can also be made that the primary function of the Acorn Cafe is to serve as an assembly or meeting hall for the fans to come together and joke and communicate in a relaxed and supportive environment.
What is it like there?
Inside the fandom the Acorn Cafe has taken on the collective mental image of being a proverbial cafe', complete with drinks, tables, booths, and a comfy couch in front of a 46-inch LCD television. Further revisions have included such additions as the stairwell from the RMS Titanic and an archival library.
What does it look like?
Though it has had several guises over the decades the Acorn Cafe exists today as a phpBB styled board, complete with all of the features that style of construction allows.
The board itself is divided into several sections.
The RRt (art) Board is a place where community members can post their latest pieces for comment and display and also in the hope of getting assistance with final revisions.
The Off-Topic section is a place where members of the fandom can converse about everyday topics not specifically related to the Rescue Rangers. The conversations are always polite, usually witty, and every so often...enlightening.
The Story Board is for those members of the community with a talent for writing to display their works. Some of the most noted pieces of Rescue Ranger fan-fiction have been first posted for the world to enjoy on the Acorn Cafe, a trait that continues in this section.
The Acorn Cafe board is the namesake for which the entire site is named. Here members of the fandom discuss issues raised by the canon, inform each other about Rescue Ranger news, and share humor based on the series.
The Cafe Foyer is the most recent addition to the Cafe, and is used to welcome new members to the board. The welcome threads allow members to introduce themselves, and their fursonas (if any.) Oftentimes, they feature "welcoming salutes," featuring both paintballs and liberal amounts of confetti (and even battleships.)
Once every year since 2002, the Cafe hosts the Golden Acorn Awards.
Who runs this place?
Since moving to phpBB, the Acorn Cafe is run by the admins Stephen C (aka Chairman Kaga) and Dr. Indy.
Who can join the Acorn Cafe?
The Acorn Cafe is open to all whom share an interest in Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers, though even this requirement is not written in stone. Several members had no true knowledge of the series before joining but today are just as dedicated to the series and fandom as any other!
History
1998
February 8: A message board called "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers", later to be known as The Acorn Cafe, is launched at Inside The Web, led by Natasha Kashefipour, then 14 years old. Before this date, the Usenet was the only online meeting-point for Rangerphiles.
February 14: The young Acorn Cafe becomes a battle location when the St. Valentine's Day Massacre goes off.
Late august: Tad Stones replies on a thread about the color of Gadget's hair. [1]
November: Loss of Darren "Sabrewolf" Perlongo.
December 5: Chris "Dale" Birkett, Steven "Indy" Hamrick and Chipette launch the Chat Pack after they had severely misused the Off-Topic Board for chatting.
1999
July 5: To honor the Rangers' 10th anniversary, the Plato Awards ceremonies are held.
2000
February: Deborah Walley herself appears at the Acorn Cafe and posts. [2] [3] Later, Dev Ross shows up at the Cafe, too. [4]
June: Framwinkle and Chipette's wedding. They've found each other at the Acorn Cafe.
Fall: Natasha Kashefipour is forced to leave the Cafe due to private issues. Indy takes over.
December 24: A severe crash reduces the Acorn Cafe to the letters "gjk". A new Acorn Cafe is set up at Inside The Web after deciding this step on the Off-Topic Board, and Julie Bihn turned her R.O.A.R. Board at Inside The Web into an Acorn Cafe—all at once. For about five days, there are two Acorn Cafes. Illustration by Jeff Parkes
December 29: The new Acorn Cafe, having to deal with problems, is shut down again, and the former R.O.A.R. Board stays the one and only Acorn Cafe.
2001
February 18: Marty Holton, Deborah Walley's agent, informs the Rangerphiles about her illness. [5]
February 28: The Great Migration. After Inside The Web has announced its complete shutdown[6], Stephen Clouse relaunches Acorn Cafe, Story Board and Off-Topic Board on RPGBoard. The Chat Pack moves to voy.com.
March 9: Inside The Web shuts down, and with it the old Acorn Cafe.
May 10: Deborah Walley passes away and leaves the Rangerphiles to mourn.
October 14: Paltiel Goldstein and Candy Courtnier's wedding, the second one of Acorn Cafe patrons. [7]
2002
December 29: The first annual Golden Acorn Awards ceremonies are held.
2003
January 12: The link to Of Mice and Mayhem appears at the Cafe. This event may change the fandom forever.
August 13: The Rangerphile community loses Andy aka MOnty.
December 29: The second annual Golden Acorn Awards ceremonies are held.
2004
January 30: The Acorn Cafe's URL changes to what it still is today: www.theacorncafe.org
December 29: The third annual Golden Acorn Awards ceremonies are held.
2005
June 23: The brand-new phpBB Acorn Cafe opens its doors.
2006
January 5: The fourth annual Golden Acorn Awards ceremonies are held.
February 24: Fan art gets its own section: the RRt Board.
May 7,8: The Acorn Cafe gets its own color theme. The Rangerphiles quickly get used to it.
August 1: The Acorn Cafe Foyer is inaugurated.
September 15: Custom graphics (such as acorn buttons) are added to the Cafe and the color scheme is slightly changed again.
2007
February 28: The Cafe suffers from a severe breakdown when the 2007 Golden Acorn Awards ceremonies are to be held.
Iconography
Awards
The Acorn Cafe hasn't only spawned the Golden Acorn Awards, but it has received some of them itself.
2004 Golden Acorn Awards: Best All-Time Website
2005 Golden Acorn Awards: Most Informative Website, Best All-Time Website
