History

Long long ago, in a call center far away, Mike, Steve and Matt toiled away. Many nicotine and caffeine fueled nights were spent trying to walk Joe Q. User through configuring dial up networking connections, setting up Outlook Express and explaining the difference between .com and .org domains. 

To pass the time and keep our sanity, we would browse Lowbrow.com. The moments would keep us forever entertained, and sometimes just a little scared. When Lowbrow.com fell on hard times, T(dot)Jay was forced to take the site down. We stepped in with Lowbrow.org and the rest was history. 

Or was it???

After a 5+ year run, we had our own perfect storm of errors, resulting in the domain name being lost to the harveters. Lowbrow.org was gone, shackled away in a small room in China, merely a placeholder of its former self. 

For over two years, Michael patiently waited - performing WHOIS lookups to determine when the current registration would expire. At the end of the first year a registration attempt was made, and it failed. The Chinese abductor had renewed it. Michael backed off, quietly waiting, not wanting to arouse too much suspicion, lest the captors make off with the domain again. 

Anonymous, random, sporadic WHOIS queries were made as nonchalantly as they could have been. Dates and times were calculated, offsetting for GMT. Timers were set. Calendars were marked. Dollars were earmarked.

Finally, the time came. A couple more queries were passed. The response of "NO DATA FOUND" meant it was time to strike.With the fury of a thousand screaming pasta shells, an attempt was made to register the domain.

Failure.

Had someone backordered it? Was there another entity out there that was hell bent on snatching the site from our grip yet again? Panic ensued, quickly replaced with calm reasoning: "Maybe it has to propagate - give it 24 more hours..."

Timers were recalibrated. Once more attempt would be made before slinking back in the shadows to once again attempt to snipe the domain. 

Then it happened. 

"Your order was successful." 

The heavens opened, angels sang, God smiled upon us - our patience had been rewarded. 

And lo, it did come to pass - much programming would need to be done - the old Lowbrow server has long since been resigned to the depths of a landfill somewhere. 

In retrospect, having each moment sent to our emails was actually a good idea. Much copying and pasting must be done. Graphics work will need to be set in motion. Databases would have to be set up and secured.

We will begin.

We will FINISH.

We will rise from the ashes.

We. 

Are. 

Back.