It was a chilly March 1999 (different to March 1998, that was a bad one) afternoon in Carrick -on- Shannon. Deadbloke and (persons name that can't be used until he gives us permission to do so) were looking at (pntcbuuhguptds)'s website, which was about nothing at all really. Deadbloke came up with a wonderful idea. A website that would make people all the world over realise that small Irish towns existed, and were not part of Irish legend and American movies. That site was given the name TACOS - The Alternative Carrick -on- Shannon. The first homepage can be seen in the old designs section.Around about the same time, other people of the pntcbuuhguptds variety were busying themselves away at the Carrick Community School website. They quite surprisingly (well, not really) guessed the password and decided to make the odd change here and there (for humourous purposes, of course, not out of some kind of vendetta against the school or the website creator, as SOME people thought). This new look was obviously not liked by the school authorities, who favoured a more conservative approach. Still, as funny the new school site was, an investigation was launched and the evil ne'er-do-wells caught and punished (I think). The TACOS staff at the time saw this as a travesty against nature, to deprive the nation of this art. We managed to recover some of the pages and posted them to TACOS.
As one can imagine, this was recived very well amongst the establishment. I mean it was hated by the establishment. They knew where to go to get this sorted. Deadbloke's parents. Poor old me had all of TACOS deleted, and (pntcbuuhguptds) recieved a similar fate. This seemed to be the end of TACOS, for a while at least...
In early December, 1999, two former students of the aforementioned school set up their own sites, The Real Carrick -on- Shannon, and The Carrick -on- Shannon Alcoholics Association. Deadbloke decided that poor old TACOS had suffered enough, and brought the site back to life. Alas, (pntcbuuhguptds) couldn't rejoin TACOS. A valuable player lost. So, Deadbloke carried on with TACOS on his own.
The development of TACOS was far from consistent. While TRCOS enjoyed regular, almost daily updates, and TCOSAA even got an entire make-over, TACOS looked shite. Deadbloke had little time to work on TACOS, what with drinking all the time and taking a philosophical approach to college. Improvements had been planed for some time, and in April 2000, they were finally finished. Incorporating some HTML technical shite that's really not very interesting, the new look (which is what this is) looks all snazzy and has lots of pizzaz, and other silly words. The development will still be slow until the summer of 2000, when Deadbloke expects to have lots of free time because he doesn't have a job (hello potential employers - mail me tacos@carrickonshannon.com, I can do lots of stuff including, but not limited to, beer testing, lager testing, stout testing, liquers testing, and so on).
***Warning!*** The following is total propaganda!
And so we arrive at the present day. TACOS is registered with many a search engine, and recieves hits from as far away as New Zealand and Japan.Why this is the case is beyond me, but they never come back. TACOS now has the pleasure of ever-so-slightly more regular updates. The TACOS staff would like to point out at this stage that we're now almost legal, and we don't want you to sue us for any reason. You read the disclaimer. You agreed to it. You're not male or felmale, and you are using Netscape 1.0 beta. You did read the disclaimer, didn't you? Silly person.