Command & Conquer Communications Center was founded on December the 18th 2006 by two people; Tore and The Raven. It was first known as Marpus. It was a site about almost everything. We started off on a free forum host called Forumer, after a while we decided that forumer did not fit our needs so we moved. The place we moved to was another free forum host called iPBFree, they had many usefull features and a helpfull staff. Marpus grew then suddenly the domain that hosted our site expired! The iPBFree staff eventually renewed the domain but it was to late...the Marpus community went silent and I had lost contact with The Raven. Marpus died.

The start of the Command & Conquer Communications Center
One day I realized how little support there was for the classics of C&C. On many sites I visit I saw people asking "How do I make C&C1/RA1 work on XP or Vista?" only to get an awnser like this: "You can't they don't work on XP/Vista." The same was for online play, I decided to make another site. I went to iPBFree and created yet another forum, this was a forum decicated to Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn and Command & Conquer Red Alert. I wanted to make a site where people who played some of my favorite games (RA and TD) could "hang out" and get help on how to install and even modify the games to their needs.

On July the 30th 2007 Command & Conquer Communications Center opened for the first time. I asked a long time member Warlord if he wanted to be an admin of this new site, he accepted. The site gained some popularity and we added some Tiberian Sun tutorials and started to help people with their Tiberian Sun issues. Later school work cought up with me and I had to leave the site for awhile. When I came back I found the site dead, only a few people was left. I began promoting C&C Comm Center a bit more and I got some new members and some members returned.

I began thinking about getting a domain and a hosting account, but this was impossible for me, I had no credit card or any other means I could pay for this (I was 14 at the time) then I got lucky. A friend on my MSN contact list (Stealth_Erazor) put me in a converstation with Tim. The manager of a webhosting service called ADHosting ("AD" as in "Advanced" not "Advertisement") he gave me a hosting account, but on one condition; I had to have put a banner linking to his site on my main page. It was ok for me; he gave me an awesome hosting account for free! It was the least I could do.

In late 2007 I saw a topic on TiberiumWeb about a server called the Alternative Tiberian Sun Server (ATS) which was being developed by someone called SyS, I thought it was a great idea and when I tested it I found that it was much faster than XWIS (The current "official" server). I sent SyS a PM on TiberiumWeb I asked him something similar to this: "Can you put a link to my site on your server welcome message? If you do I will put a link to ATS on my site." I got a reply from him saying something like Why not "make your site ATS' homepage?" I thought why not? He added me on MSN and he told me that I would become an ATS admin so I made him a forum admin and asked him about his future plans for ATS, "supporting all WOL games" and The Alternative Westwood Online Server (AWOS) was born". Everything was fine untill early 2008 when suddenly AWOS was put offline (SyS' host had problems) and AWOS was not really online after this happened. The last thing I got to know about AWOS was "It was finished....." AWOS has been offline for two years now and I don't know what the future holds for AWOS. Wonder what happened to Warlord? Well he is still around, but he rarely visits.

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The future:
The future of this site is uncertain I maybe "swallowed" by other things todo and the site may become a "ghost site" or I will be able to put up more content and promote it more. Hopefully eveything will be all right

Last updated: December 19th 2009 - Cleaned up sentences
Written by Tore