In short

“RandomBase” is the name we have chosen for our collection of websites, scripts, programs and articles we let loose on the world.

The pretty long version of which you’ll only read the first paragraph and the five last words

RandomBase started originally in September ‘06 as a domain name bought by Iron with only the purpose to collect the immense amount of Perl and PHP scripts (with no relation to each other whatsoever, they ranged from security scanners to simple content management systems) he had written over the years of learning the actual languages. Obviously the quality varied depending on when and why they were written.

A few months later in January ‘07, Tom talked to Iron and proposed to create a decent website out of RandomBase, which happened. The concept of “RandomBase” didn’t change, it just became a nicer front-end but it was still an incoherent collection of … stuff. From two worlds now, Tom went the more commercial approach with AutoIt and PHP scripts, Iron still made simple tools with little to no use.

Things became even more bright and lovely when Robin (aka r0bin) joined the crew – a very talented designer. With the addition of Robin to the team, we could focus on creating real and useful websites – which we did. RandomBase created many websites, most of them were focused on the things we love: communities, programming, gaming, security, … many came and many went. Each time when a website was finished we hopped on to the next one.

In retrospective, this wasn’t the best approach: many websites died of visitor-starvation, so they were closed. There were a few websites however which survived the horror of having no visitors, they’re still active today. Our best example is probably BFHforum, a phpBB3 forum which has been heavily modified with many many custom edits to fit the needs of the community.

After about a year, Tom left the team and RandomBase went silent for over a year and a half. Now I (Iron) am looking to restart RandomBase, things are a little messy still and very little of the original version has been kept. I’d like to have a clean start and especially add new members to the team so we can continue our projects which are still viewed by thousands of visitors.