A fundamental part of the Acrosstheweez history actually begins with another fansite: albumfive.com.

On March 22, 2005, albumfive.com was released, designed to promote and discuss Weezer's as-yet-untitled fifth album. Many fans registered, displaced by the inexplicable move made by Weezer to change its board to a different, disliked format. Despite albumfive's move to be the first new home for boardless fans, another, more established site, weezernation, added a board, and attracted the general majority of the fans. Gradually, albumfive's population shrunk, until all that was left was a shell of the former juggernaut: only a group of about 10 members remained and were hardcore posters till the forums and the site were taken down on June 28th, a date with many rumors... This was a very hard experience for the hardcore posters, who communicated every day and kept the boards and of course the site alive. On the same date, Phili and Ania the two members with the most posts created free forums with the help of some other old members, like Lespaul33; Runningrivers; Death_possible_Destruction and Bias, the .net.ms url was also registered that day, after Phili came up with that name and after a democratic vote for the name of the site. The day afterwards, another hardcore member fridyrls managed to get the old boards back and put them in a design chosen by Ania, the characteristic Acrosstheweez green style! Acrosstheweez 1.0 was born! Phili then managed to organise a partnership between Acrosstheweez and Weezer.se, which was the beginning of the interesting Acrosstheweez features. Already in mid-August Acrosstheweez hit the maximum of the best features ever experienced by the boardies of the site: Contests with Weezer prizes; Online Radio; Wallpapers; Signatures; Avatars; slogans; Gaming Servers. The boardies got to know each other better and better, and slowly very old members, who were seen for the last time in March rejoined the community, and many new fans were attracted from various sources, such as Weezer's official street team, JONAS. But this Weeztopia didn't last very long. Near the end of August, several key posters (Lizzie, Ania, and Nicole) announced that their time on the boards would be severely depleted due to their entering of the University (another member, DoozerRocker, also began university). Hearing this Runningrivers, who was running the fansite Meerez created her own boards, got the idea that this could maybe be the end of Acrosstheweez. Which was certified by end of September, when Acrosstheweez 1.0 had to be taken down due to numerous reasons, shortly after the exciting announcement of Acrosstheweez 2.0. ATW 2.0 was originally ready for release in early September. However, Ania decided that the site was not as good as it could be and the administrators decided to push back the release. On September 20th, visitors to the forum were greeted by a surprising message: "Across the Weez is closed, forever!" The Acrosstheweez administration team was separated... Ania was busy at university, and totally gave up the message boards, Phili lost all hope for Acrosstheweez and was certain, even if he were to reopen it, that nobody would come back, and the third admin fridyrls had lost interest in Weezer. In the time between ATW 1.0 and 2.0, everything advanced slowly for the old Acrosstheweez fans. The Meerez boards weren't busy at all, most of the members gave up message boards, and Phili missed the community so much, he started to help his old partner Weezer.se and posted at Weezernation, until, he came to the point, that this wasn't a real exchange for Acrosstheweez. He than started to re-establish contact with former members, and Runningrivers showed him the Meerez boards. Shortly after that point, he decided with Runningrivers to reopen Acrosstheweez. In short, she agreed. The original, nearly ready ATW 2.0 ( now called "Unreleased Acrosstheweez 1.5", screenshot coming soon!) which was still on Phili's server was totally reworked between October 28th and November 2nd by him. And after over a month of silence for the outside world, on November 3rd, Acrosstheweez 2.0 opened finally. However the ATW 2.0 time is now considered as a rather weird time, more like a transition, due to the boards that didn't really belong to Acrosstheweez and the indeed outdated design. So on December 8th Phili decided to do a big relaunch to bring back the glory lost in September. Meanwhile we're Acrosstheweez 2.5 New Boards (with the best design ever had at A5/ATW), new site, lots of visitors, new members, everything running great and hosted at Weezer.se.
February 11th: Phili takes the site down announcing a server for Acrosstheweez only, a .com url, a new version of the shorly before programmed toolbar... The site appears on the international Weezer day 2006 to give people their drug back, the forums. Shortly after having the new domain Phili organized as the first ever fansite a webchat with Karl which ran great and lots of new informations went public. On March 22nd 2006 when Across the Weez celebrated its first birthday ATW was again improved by a new design and a media section. Overall 2006 was a silent year for both Weezer and ATW. That year ATW added 2 hosted partnersites: EOS and WeezerJonas. In 2007, short before ATW's second birthday, the site got a new look for both the Website and the Forums.

Yours sincerely,

Phili

*Special thanks to Bill (Liam), who reworked the story with me*

Major Across the Weez releases

Across the Weez 1.0 (June 28th 2005-September 20th 2005)


Across the Weez 2.5 (December 8th 2005-March 21th 2006)


Across the Weez 3.0 (March 22nd 2006-March 22nd 2007)


Across the Weez 4.0 (March 22nd 2007-...)