SFRaves is an electronic virtual community of ravers, networking together around the clock, sharing information and ideas, and even planning our own parties. The mailing list started in 1992 and has over 2500 members from all parts of the community and all parts of the world (although the focus of the discussion is on San Francisco). Below is information about SFRaves itself as well as information about the entire San Francisco scene.

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1992: SFRaves Connects

• 3.92 - SFRaves is born. Brian Behlendorf is the proud daddy. The address at the time is sfraves@petrus.berkeley.edu.
• 4.11.92 - Battle of the Juggernauts: Toon Town's UFO's are Real vs. the Gathering. Many SFRavers meet for the first time. I get my SFRaves button, now a collector's item :).
• 5.2.92 - The first SFRaves picnic, over in the East Bay at Joaquin Miller Park.
• 5.92 - SFRaves moves to soda.berkeley.edu.
• 7.92 - Plans begin for the first big SFRaves bash, planned for Bonny Doon.
• 7.30.92 - After some prodding, Brian realizes "Connection" is a better name than "Conn-X-tion". Other rejected names: DeepByte, chmod u+x, Contact, Outernet.
• 8.20.92 - Connection goes off in a big way at Bonny Doon Beach. Word eventually reaches the full moon massive, which hold a series of also-legendary parties there in the coming months.
• 9.25.92 - SFR produces Alternity in the basement of 1015. We fear that the show "48 Hours" would film there, but they don't show.
• 9.92 - SFRaves outgrows soda and is moved to medisg.stanford.edu (aka sfraves.stanford.edu and techno.stanford.edu)
• 11.92 - Brian discovers a "HUGE squarish open space" in the Berkeley Marina. The grass is never the same again.
• 11.92 - vrave is born
• 12.9.92 - first-known reference to "luv phasers". Niels refers to "ravers with...forehead mounted love-phasers...enforcing positive vibes"

1993

• 1.93 - The SFRaves/socal-raves X-country ski trip in Yosemite. Dana ties my boom box to his backpack and we listen to Spun's tape while skiing the back country in Yosemite.
• 2.2.93 - was supposed to be the last Come/Unity.
• 3.13.93 - Connection 2 planned for a spot in northwest SF. Rain forces it into the Charter Oak warehouse, but it is busted partway into Scott Hardkiss's set. After some scrambling, and a regrouping at the Cala Foods, the party is moved to the Berkeley Marina and rewards the SFRavers who brave a light drizzle. Jon Drukman plays on one turntable for a while, leading into sets from Moonpup, Lee and Blurrrr. Bob Ramstad may still have tapes :)
• 4.93 - The San Francisco community gets together to throw a benefit party for Malachy, who was seriously injured after the full moon party early in March.
• summer '93 - the South Bay lunch begins. I think the first one was at Jing Jing in Palo Alto, then it is agreed that it works better as a bring-yr-food picnic in Greer Park.
• 7.29.93 - I take over the SFR calendar from Brian.
• 9.5.93 - Liquid Grooves at Crissy Field in San Francisco. This started a string of Liquid Air parties, leading up to the first Friends and Family at the Blue Cube. The original group of Liquid Air DJs included Ethan, Bryce, Tamara Palmer, Jon Drukman, Lee An, and Laura La Gassa.
• 10.3.93 - Lee F., along with Ethan and Bryce throw Connection Earth, an SFR-sponsored party at Marx Meadows in Golden Gate Park.

1994

• 1.15.94 - the first Friends and Family goes off in the Blue Cube. Ethan, Bryce and the F&F collective pull it all together after learning the ropes with fluid groove and liquid air. Subsequent F&F's pack Klub Komotion with a hot & sweaty group of revelers.
• 5.28.94 - Lee F. takes the lead in the SFR-organized party "In the Light" at the bandshell in Golden Gate Park.
• 7.94 - Hyperreal comes up and SFR is moved to it.

1995: SFR: Friends & Family

• 3.95 - The SFR Calendar goes up on the web
• 3.95 - Thanks to the Zippies, SFR has a record 1080 messages over the month.
• 8.95 - Friends and Family outgrows Komotion and produces the first of two stellar parties in an Oakland warehouse. The F&F Collective grows to many dozen people. The first is so wildly successful that 600 tickets for the next F&F sell out in advance, in one weekend.
• 9.16.95 - Net.ravers from across the country gather and celebrate Brian and Laura's wedding with a pre-party at Bonny Doon Beach. They are married the next day.

1999: SFR: Best Local Online Rave Resource

• .99 - SF Raves won the SF Bay Guardian Best Of The Bay 1999 Award for Best Local Online Rave Resource!

2000: SFR Keeps Going Till the End of the 20th Century

• 3.00 - SFR 8 Years in the Mix - D.O.B. March 1992

2001: SFR Keep's On Thumpin Into the 21st Century

• 1.01 - SF Raves is 9 years Old, in the Mix
• 4.07.01 Epiphany - Ponies and Stuff
• 4.26.01 - SF Raves throws Relic - a party to Remember
• 5.01 - SF Raves' server taz, is retired, new and improved taz3.hyperreal.org is born
• 5.05.01 - SFRavers gather for a house party called Mexicon
• 5.12.01 - Free Beats Throws a Notable Renegade Party in Berkeley, CA
• 5.17.01 - Oxygen - A bi-weekly Party at the Oxygen Bar, leaves many fond memories in the mind of Karina
• 5.22.01 - SF Ravers Justin Hale and Michael Liu throw a fabulous party in the South Bay Called Secret Society
• 6.16.01 - Fond Memories of Parties in GGP
• 6.16.01 - Sf Ravers from Butterzone.net throw a fond weekly shindig called Sunday of Slack
• 6.28.01 - Local Collective Epiphany has a three year anniversary party
• 7.07.01 - Eklektic makes its mark as a place for Junglists

2002: SFRaves Celebrates its Decade Anniversary

SFR Calendar

Calendar

Groups

People profiles

Polls

2003

• SFRaves/Hyperreal Rave Interface grows in functionality, people and size. The SFR Calendar is enhanced with multiple features. Features are updated to include enhancements in the Events Calendar, Event Calendar Interface, Groups, User/People profiles, Polls
• SFRaves continues to grow at 11 years of age.

2004

• SFRaves/Hyperreal Rave Interface reaches the 1.0 milestone. SFR calendar features continue enhancement and shift direction to broaden scope and improved Quality standards.
• Updated features: Events Calendar, Event calendar Groups, User/People profiles
• User Registration has skyrocketed to 258 groups and 1666 people as of September 2004!
• SFRaves has joined the Networking revolution: SFRaves @ Livejournal.com, SFRaves @ Tribe.net, SFRaves @ Friendster.com, SFRaves Myspace Group and SFRaves @ Myspace, and SFRaves @ Orkut.com
• SFRaves serves the community for 12 years strong!

2005

• SFRaves Calendar continues to grow in reach, registration of Users, Groups and features.
• SFRaves becomes a teenager in 2005! 13 years and counting...
• SFRaves continues branches out and networks nonstop. The community has grown by leaps and bounds to include direct networking connections on various sites on the web. As a result, both the user base and the breadth of our community has an extended reach and continues to grow.
• SFRaves Calendar User Registration has skyrocketed to 310 groups and 1985 people as of January 2005!
• SFRaves Network Contacts: SFRaves @ Livejournal.com, SFRaves @ Tribe.net, SFRaves @ Friendster.com, SFRaves Myspace Group, SFRaves @ Myspace and SFRaves @ Orkut.com
• SFRaves serves the community for 13 years strong!

Original Contribution: (1992-1996) Derek Chung - dhchung@hyperreal.org

Compilation and Admin Author: Karina (1996 - Present). Last updated on March 09, 2005 by Karina - karina@hyperreal.org