Prehistory to 25 December 1979: Pre-Talossan Period
26 December 1979 to 25 November 1980: Era 1, ending with the Battle of the Garage
26 November 1980 to the day of Frederic Coriu's first visit in 1981(?) and ending at the end of 1982: The Expansionist Era
Frederic Coriu's first visit to Ben's house occurred in 1981(?) and it was his reaction to Ben's Talossan flag that validated Ben's creative life altogether. I look at this event as being the third-most-important occurrence in Talossan history after the tragic death of Ben's mom in February 1979 and the founding of the Kingdom.
A reading of "the Big History" imho clearly shows the workings of Ben's mind: the death of his mother directly or indirectly led to the founding of Talossa. Also, everything I've said regarding Ben's mother here is public knowledge Ben put into his public writings. May she continue to rest in peace.
1979 to 1982 saw as foils to Ben the names Daniel Laurier and Bob M. (the latter competed in the Olympics in swimming for Barbados). It was not until 1983 Ian M. came on the Talossan scene, becoming not the most important foil Ben ever had (that was Dan), but certainly the most colorful (as Ben put it, "mostly red, white, and black").
1983 to Ben's re-coronation in 1988: The IM Era (for lack of a far-better name).
I have seen every extant issue of IM's "Talossan National News". If you have yet to do so yourself, you are officially required to do so. This is the era of IM's greatest creative output in Talossa, the era of early Davron, King Dobberpuhl, and the legendary King Florence. Talossa got a whole bunch of stuff out of its system during this time, and it came to a peak and an end at Ben's re-coronation in September 1988 (month?).
That event was the last great gathering of Talossa from its earliest years - sorta like the 1974 Academy Awards from what I can tell. Davron was there. Dan L. was there. IM was there. I'm pretty sure Cona was there, too.
We internet-Talossans can never truly know what it was like to have been in-person and in Ben's wider-than-just-Talossa friendship network in Milwaukee. For better or worse, going online in the 1990s changed Talossa forever.
Very late 1988-November 1990: This is the time when Talossa came the 2nd-closest to going under. The National Destiny Referendum (name?) in November 1990 saved the country. In the end, no-one wanted Talossa to go the way of the Dodo, and with that, the stagnation of the past two years came to an end.
1990 is also the year that saw IM come out of the closet. His time as an independent political force in Talossa in opposition to Ben ends here and even in 2004-2005 never truly returns. This was the Talossan political equivalent of an earthquake.
December 1990 - to ca. 1995: Resurgence in Talossa. IM is PM during part of this time and revitalizes the country in a way no-one has before or since.
1995-1996: Beginning of the Cybercit Era. The first internet-citizens are brought on-board, and they all buy into Ben's creative direction for Talossa.
1997-1998: The next wave of Cybercits come to Talossa. Not all of them buy into Ben's creative direction for Talossa and wish to do Talossa in somewhat their own way, while keeping well within the Talossan representative-democratic-monarchist structure and system. The Uppermost Cort's vetoing the citizenship process for Miestra Schiva is infamous.
1997 sees what I believe to be the first mass-exodus in Talossan history: Miestrâ and certain others, I think. I don't have my notes in front of me, and this is before my time.
1998 sees the second mass-exodus from Talossa: Dan Wardlow and others in dramatic fashion. Dan burns his Talossan materials, and with them go much documentation of Talossa's earliest Cybercit past.
June 2001: the next mass-exodus - this time the third Liberal Party of Talossa. Ián Anglatzara is among those who flee.
Not sure about "eras", but Ben in the end is the one who incites all the mass-exoduses that have ever been from Talossa right up to the day I write this screed.
More soon,
26 December 1979 to 25 November 1980: Era 1, ending with the Battle of the Garage
26 November 1980 to the day of Frederic Coriu's first visit in 1981(?) and ending at the end of 1982: The Expansionist Era
Frederic Coriu's first visit to Ben's house occurred in 1981(?) and it was his reaction to Ben's Talossan flag that validated Ben's creative life altogether. I look at this event as being the third-most-important occurrence in Talossan history after the tragic death of Ben's mom in February 1979 and the founding of the Kingdom.
A reading of "the Big History" imho clearly shows the workings of Ben's mind: the death of his mother directly or indirectly led to the founding of Talossa. Also, everything I've said regarding Ben's mother here is public knowledge Ben put into his public writings. May she continue to rest in peace.
1979 to 1982 saw as foils to Ben the names Daniel Laurier and Bob M. (the latter competed in the Olympics in swimming for Barbados). It was not until 1983 Ian M. came on the Talossan scene, becoming not the most important foil Ben ever had (that was Dan), but certainly the most colorful (as Ben put it, "mostly red, white, and black").
1983 to Ben's re-coronation in 1988: The IM Era (for lack of a far-better name).
I have seen every extant issue of IM's "Talossan National News". If you have yet to do so yourself, you are officially required to do so. This is the era of IM's greatest creative output in Talossa, the era of early Davron, King Dobberpuhl, and the legendary King Florence. Talossa got a whole bunch of stuff out of its system during this time, and it came to a peak and an end at Ben's re-coronation in September 1988 (month?).
That event was the last great gathering of Talossa from its earliest years - sorta like the 1974 Academy Awards from what I can tell. Davron was there. Dan L. was there. IM was there. I'm pretty sure Cona was there, too.
We internet-Talossans can never truly know what it was like to have been in-person and in Ben's wider-than-just-Talossa friendship network in Milwaukee. For better or worse, going online in the 1990s changed Talossa forever.
Very late 1988-November 1990: This is the time when Talossa came the 2nd-closest to going under. The National Destiny Referendum (name?) in November 1990 saved the country. In the end, no-one wanted Talossa to go the way of the Dodo, and with that, the stagnation of the past two years came to an end.
1990 is also the year that saw IM come out of the closet. His time as an independent political force in Talossa in opposition to Ben ends here and even in 2004-2005 never truly returns. This was the Talossan political equivalent of an earthquake.
December 1990 - to ca. 1995: Resurgence in Talossa. IM is PM during part of this time and revitalizes the country in a way no-one has before or since.
1995-1996: Beginning of the Cybercit Era. The first internet-citizens are brought on-board, and they all buy into Ben's creative direction for Talossa.
1997-1998: The next wave of Cybercits come to Talossa. Not all of them buy into Ben's creative direction for Talossa and wish to do Talossa in somewhat their own way, while keeping well within the Talossan representative-democratic-monarchist structure and system. The Uppermost Cort's vetoing the citizenship process for Miestra Schiva is infamous.
1997 sees what I believe to be the first mass-exodus in Talossan history: Miestrâ and certain others, I think. I don't have my notes in front of me, and this is before my time.
1998 sees the second mass-exodus from Talossa: Dan Wardlow and others in dramatic fashion. Dan burns his Talossan materials, and with them go much documentation of Talossa's earliest Cybercit past.
June 2001: the next mass-exodus - this time the third Liberal Party of Talossa. Ián Anglatzara is among those who flee.
Not sure about "eras", but Ben in the end is the one who incites all the mass-exoduses that have ever been from Talossa right up to the day I write this screed.
More soon,