History
The No Homers Club (aka the NHC) was created by Eric Wirtanen in 2001 with assistance from Jonah Flynn and Tino Persico. It was originally a part of the "Evergreen Terrace" Simpsons fan site (online from February 1998 to August 2002), which first held the domain. Although at that time the Internet had dozens of Simpsons discussion websites, the NHC quickly gained the support of other fan sites and their webmasters.
After Wirtanen shut down his "Evergreen Terrace" website in 2002 (largely due to a cease and desist order from 20th Century Fox), the No Homers Club became mostly independent and developed a large community. The forum's address was originally club.nohomers.net but the board moved to simpsonsforum.com within days after its creation. In October 2002, it took its current domain, nohomers.net. Since 2002, Jacob Burch has also had a significant part in the maintenance of the NHC and as of June 2006, he is the co-owner of the website. On September 29, 2008, the NHC message board logged its two millionth post.
When the forums were first created in August 2001, the NHC ran on the YaBB forum software. However, in October 2001 (after just a few months), the NHC started using vBulletin forum software. As of June 2012, the message board runs on the vBulletin 4.20 platform. Currently the administrators of the NHC include Wirtanen, Burch, Amber Dowland, Ben Newbold, James Tyner, Ryan O'Reilly, and Adam Jameson.
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