Don't have time to give you a full run down... but I'll simplify a bit. (subtract the years of 2008-2009 from the record, as I was without internet during that period.)
Codex was initially a MSN group founded by Hydrogen.(which is, through a post of SL's, how I found codex in the first place.) Then they finally got a site around Feb/Mar of 2004. (I forgot the domain as it had changed directly after I found the place.)
Thus was born ncodex.com
The original admins being Raredaredevil and Hydrogen. (Feel like I'm missing someone... ... :p)
Neo-wars with competing sites began to be all the rage... SL64 was promoted to admin. Hidden elf was promoted to admin....
Eventually, noiti was promoted to admin...
RDD threw a bitch fit and kicked us all off of the domain ncodex.com that he had been hosting, and thus was born ********.us.
A number of male-male magazines and subscriptions were soon to be frequently discovered by RDD in his home mailbox for a period of time.
Around this point ******** became so popular that we had to close off registration for a while. We opened registrations on christmas day only and had an influx of members. (One notable being redlion)
Registrations were reopened once or twice in the following half a year and then eventually were opened fully.
******** dominated all competition.
3vo and someother bullshit site I can't remember came up... we dominated them after there was a mass exodus of members due to staffing rumbling... blahblahblah
*Blank space in time goes here*
7.5 years later and here we are. :p
I won't get into all of the immense friendships that occured, drama fests that ensued, or members that were never to be seen again... as there were PLENTY....