The History of ArchSociety

At the end of the first semester in architecture I felt that there were several things which if I could know before I could do more progress in that semester. Many hidden secretes of dealing with architecture education I came to know from seniors or from other sources but not in perfect time. Then I felt the necessity of a common place where everyone could share their knowledge and thoughts together about architecture so that the younger generation in this profession could cope up easily with this ultra tough thing.

Before this idea I was also looking for an open platform of talking where I can shout my truths. During the end of my higher secondary I was heavily influenced by the communist revolutionary ideas. Obviously Ernesto Che Guevara was my hero then! Thousands of criticism for the capitalist invasion in the world were raving inside me. I was looking for places to talk openly. Our typical corrupted media didn't give me the chance... although I didn't stop trying writing in news papers.
Anyway, suddenly I felt that internet is the only media where I can talk my very own in my way. Then I knew nothing of internet but sending emails to my brothers. But the urge of speaking truths took me to the way of web designing.

First of all I looked for some free webspace where I could start my experiments. Then I didn't have any computer even! Worked in cyber cafes. Started with Yahoo Geocities. Then came to know about some forums who give free pro hosting for posting in their forums. Discovered Lifelesspeople.com, they taught me a lot. Most of my basic knowledge of web designing came from this forum. LP Trel of Lifelesspeople gave me a professional hosting. I learned web-designing just from the internet itself!
I made The Brain Witness using WordPress blogging engine in the year 2004. Brain Witness was name of my diary when I was in school. I started that again in web. Soon Brain Witness became a multi-author blog. Nirghum, Dan, Pori and many of us started writing there. The truth was started to be spoken............

Then I attempted something towards the knowledge sharing ideas for architecture education. archnet.org of Aga Khan Trust was my guiding standard in this regard. In later Architect Sheraz Ali Bhai of Aga Khan Trust helped me giving me advises. Our teacher Architect Mujtaba Ahsan also helped me a lot then. Talked with Nirghum and his team. I planned for an interactive and dynamic forum and content management system.
My room-mate Partho Protim Daas gave me the name of my idea 'Arch Society'. I liked the name too much. A big thanks to him for the name.
Registered a domain for free somehow which was archsociety.info, then a promo was going on for .info domains I grabbed it. Started archsociety.info in Lifelesspeople.com server on Sunday 31 July 2005.
Started talking about it with friends and teachers. Tried to increase the number of members... Space, Dan, Rubel_RAF, Ashraf, Meema, Kaanita, Mujtaba sir were first few members.

In later Architect Nurur Rahman Khan (Jumu sir) did a lot for ArchSociety. I worked for Discourse and the Muzharul Islam Archive with him. And obviously ArchSociety became a part of all these moves. By these time I got a computer of my own for the first time in 2006 from N.R. Khan as the compensation for making the website of his office Tanya Karim N.R. Khan And Associates (although I couldn't finish the work yet!).
This is how ArchSociety went on.... and now ArchSociety is in it's own move....
I'll be the happiest when ArchSociety will be able to move without the existance of me, when it'll completely run by itself and it's members. I want to be nobody.....