TacoNet – 12 Year Anniversary

Hello everyone,

Today marks 12 years of TacoNet. It was on this day (approximately) that I established what would become a passion project that would endure and grow for over a decade later into a significant part of it’s users’ day to day lives.

I suppose it’s been long enough where I can revel and reflect on all of this time spent on the project and the fruit it’s come to bear.

When I started up with the idea to get some proper enterprise grade server hardware to work on a project I had in mind where I could organize personal media that I’d collected over years of curating, I never thought it would grow to become such a large part of so many lives day to day and the place it would come to hold in the hearts of the users.

To successfully serve the intended purpose, there must be established three key pillars of intent…

1. Uptime – if it is not online it is not functional
2. Functionality – if it is online, but not functional, it serves no purpose, likewise, if it is functional but not intuitive, it fails the functionality test for those affected.
3. Secure – if it is not encrypted, it does not serve the intended purpose

It was these three goal that I did my best to adhere to over the entire course of the project. These were the roots that grew into what TacoNet and WarpEngine are today.

Now, you may ask, “Why celebrate a regular and recurring financial loss at no gain?” This is an interesting question that I find difficult to answer in a way that most people might understand and relate to, but there is one thing relative to this question that I have personally found to be true time and time again.

Some of the best stuff, the highest quality shit you can find on the internet, is done not for fame, fortune or power but simply for the love of the game.

DVD Decrypter. If you know…you know.

This project would never have survived the ups and downs that life throws at all of us day to day. A special thanks to all those who encouraged the project on an ongoing basis from the start, helped develop and test it’s evolution of features and donated funds and hardware to support ongoing costs and expenses involved with hosting and housing the servers.

Here’s to many more years of this project.

-LightSpeedTaco