The Goons are a small internet community. Most of the members met on an online game called Graal, in which the vast majority belonged to a guild called "The Flames." The Goons is an open community, anyone who wishes to join can just sign up at the board damngoons.com. We discuss a variety of topics, they are listed bellow after the history.

History

The Flames

This was the Graal Online guild where most of us met. A brief history of the guild with our adventures can be found here: The Flames History (http://damngoons.com/history.html) Alton Ellis (*1944 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican musician, best known as the innovator of rocksteady music. ...

The Flames disbanded and the board started

In March of 2002, Perhonorificus(back then known as Consolamentum) had decided to end the guild. The guild had become quite messy. Cons' later explained: "First, disbanding the Flames had become obligatory. The guild was already moribund, and a vast majority of the faithful members used only the message board. I didn't want the guild to become an online community à la MSN Groups. That wasn't the guild's intended direction, far from it! "The Flames" in itself was a Graal gaming guild, no more, no less. However, the faith in GOON, which was at first solely a joke (I called Jonathan "you damn goon!" on Celestia after one of his mischiefs), spread rapidly and beyond control. Thus when I shut down the guild, I formed a hidden message board for the Flames/Goons who wanted to use it." This began the first message board for The Goons.

Consolamentum Departs and the board moves

The first board was closed with fair warning by Cons and he said his good-byes. Another Goon/ex-Flames memember named Russ (also went by J5 and Johnny#5) had a webserver(J5networks.net) and decided the host The Goons board. This occured durring August 2002. The community was preserved, but most of the members were inactive and the board was quite dull. There were some periods activity durring this time, but they were usually followed by long streaks of inactivity with only a handful of members posting.

Consolamentum Returns!

On Aug 20, 2003, Consolamentum returned. His new alias was Perhonorificus. With his return the board started to pick up activity once more. He and Russ were now both Admins of the board.

Current day and Damngoons.com

Perhonorificus and Russ moved the board to an actual webhost and obtained the new domain name damngoons.com. The board began to prosper and is now more active and open to the public.

The Board

The board itself holds many different topics. We have forums ranging from regular discussions to world events, women, video games, multimedia and computer tech. . Our members are very diverse adding different views in to topics and making them very interesting to say at the least. Anyone is welcome to join our little corner of the internet.