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The website opened partially on February 19, 2017<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/</ref>. While Tsuki continued to talk about "looking into" IRC<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/#q34979305</ref>, events forced his hand as the first Systemspace Discord (later named Firstspace or Oldspace) was announced in that very same thread<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/#q34992076</ref>. He had also made a thread on Lainchan about it<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/#34983509 If you have the archive, please say so on [[Talk:TSUKI Project]].</ref>.

The website opened partially on February 19, 2017<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/</ref>. While Tsuki continued to talk about "looking into" IRC<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/#q34979305</ref>, events forced his hand as the first Systemspace Discord (later named Firstspace or Oldspace) was announced in that very same thread<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/#q34992076</ref>. He had also made a thread on Lainchan about it<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34978041/#34983509 If you have the archive, please say so on [[Talk:TSUKI Project]].</ref>.

The 4chan thread where Tsuki announced the website received over 500 replies; but nothing lasts forever, and an anon made a new thread which, in its turn, received almost as many as the thread it continued. The new thread became the center of a rapidly raging firestorm of controversy: pro- and anti-Tsuki posters called each other "normies"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34992666/#q34994036</ref> and otherwise insulted and mocked each other<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34992666/#q34994359</ref>. There was, however, serious debate about whether to believe or doubt Tsuki<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34992666/#q34994359</ref>. Tsuki welcomed such debate at this point, because the Project was "also an experiment on human doubt"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34681102/#q34681985</ref>.

The 4chan thread where Tsuki announced the website received over 500 replies; but nothing lasts forever, and an anon made a new thread which, in its turn, received almost as many as the thread it continued. The new thread hosted a firestorm of controversy: pro- and anti-Tsuki posters called each other "normies"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34992666/#q34994036</ref> and otherwise insulted and mocked each other<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34992666/#q34994359</ref>. There was, however, serious debate about whether to believe or doubt Tsuki<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34992666/#q34994359</ref>. Tsuki welcomed such debate at this point, because the Project was "also an experiment on human doubt"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/34681102/#q34681985</ref>.

Another thread brought two new features which would endure throughout the lifespan of the Project; people self-identifying by numbers that showed the order of their registration (which would later be referred to as "migrant numbers")<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35029598/#35039219</ref>, and thinking about what they would be or do in LFE<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35029598/#35033796</ref>. By late February posters had begun to fear "movement of redditscum and other shite" who would "most likely follow us right until" the new imageboard<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35074140/#q35074586</ref>; but they were hopeful that "good moderation" could keep it "a new home for 'robots' [users of /r9k] and lainons (from lainchan)"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35074140/#q35075557</ref> and prevent it from devolving into "/r9k/ lite normie central"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35074140/#q35075612</ref>.  

Another thread brought two new features which would endure throughout the lifespan of the Project; people self-identifying by numbers that showed the order of their registration (which would later be referred to as "migrant numbers")<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35029598/#35039219</ref>, and thinking about what they would be or do in LFE<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35029598/#35033796</ref>. By late February posters had begun to fear "movement of redditscum and other shite" who would "most likely follow us right until" the new imageboard<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35074140/#q35074586</ref>; but they were hopeful that "good moderation" could keep it "a new home for 'robots' [users of /r9k] and lainons (from lainchan)"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35074140/#q35075557</ref> and prevent it from devolving into "/r9k/ lite normie central"<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35074140/#q35075612</ref>.  

Debate also raged about whether Systemspace was preferable to traditional religions like Christianity, or whether it was compatible with them after all. For example, a user compared the Christian requirements to go to church every Sunday, pay a tithe, and believe in Jesus or else go to Hell for eternity to the Systemspace requirements to draw and photograph a picture with a "simple code" and stay alive until the 1st of July, and found the latter much more preferable<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35114044/#35116956</ref>. The imageboard opened on February 26, 2017<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35136951/#35140953</ref>.

Debate also raged about whether Systemspace was preferable to traditional religions like Christianity, or whether it was compatible with them after all. For example, a user compared the Christian requirements to go to church every Sunday, pay a tithe, and believe in Jesus or else go to Hell for eternity to the Systemspace requirements to draw and photograph a picture with a "simple code" and stay alive until the 1st of July, and found the latter much more preferable<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35114044/#35116956</ref>. The imageboard opened on February 26, 2017<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/35136951/#35140953</ref>.

===Glory days (February 26-April ??, 2017)===

===Glory days (February 26-April ??, 2017)===

''"Glory days, they'll pass you by..."''--Bruce Springsteen.

''"Glory days, they'll pass you by..."''--Bruce Springsteen.