Editing Rec.sport.paintball (section)

== Timeline ==

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! Year
! Event
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| Before 1992
| Paintball discussed within broader Usenet communities
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| Early 1992
| Proposal circulated for a dedicated rec.sport.paintball newsgroup
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| 15 April 1992
| Creation vote passes by 195 votes to 43
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| April 1992
| Newsgroup established following the Usenet approval process
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| 1992
| Steve Mitchell begins compiling information from the newsgroup
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| 1992
| Team Internet forms as an informal online paintball organisation
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| 1994
| Steve Mitchell maintains a Tippmann Pro/Am technical FAQ
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| 1994
| Mitchell transfers paintball information to a web server, creating the basis of WARPIG
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| Mid-1990s
| Newsgroup develops as a source of technical and recreational information
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| 1996
| Original FAQ maintained by Steve Mitchell becomes outdated
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| 1997
| WARPIG beginner FAQ version 0.3 published under Dawn Mills
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| Late 1990s
| Paul Kloehn maintains revised rec.sport.paintball FAQ
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| 1999
| Revised FAQ preserved in online archives
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| 2001
| PBNation established as a separate web-based paintball community
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| 2000s onward
| Historical rec.sport.paintball material preserved through Usenet and FAQ archives
|}