Originally the primary Mitsubishi Mirage community was a Yahoo Club. It was not really moderated and never felt helpful or friendly. So in December 1999, I signed up for a free Dreamwater.com account (similar to the old Geocities.com sites.) It started with a few pages of information to start and a simple chat page. Around December 20th, 1999 I enabled the "message board" that Dreamwater offered.

Because the whole thing was free, there were ads on the pages and the forum wasn't impressive. But it was a move in the right direction. Maintain a free site that helps Mitsubishi Mirage owners work together. Whether you were trying to pick better tires or repair your car, it was a home. As you can see, lots changed in the first two years.

In October 2000 the ezBoard forum was set up by SoLaR EkLyPz. It was an improvement, but he was unpredictable. Less than two years later, he deleted most of the site overnight, burning it to the ground. All history lost.

In 2002, I started the move from Dreamwater.com. The Mirage-Performance.com domain started off as a Mirage Network menu. Then slowly transitioned to replace the free Dreamwater site.

Also in 2002, after the ezBoard forum went down, Geovannie, Amy, Gregg, and Matt jumped in and created the first of the current phpbb forums. Most of it's life, the URL was www.boostaholic.net/phpBB2, but this time it was ran by group members that cared about the community. In 2003, it was later given a home at mirageforums.com. The member that paid for this domain name, disappeared later, then the domain either lapsed or was sold to a domain holding company. Never to be released again.

The switch to mirageforums.net... Shortly after, Geo's forum got hacked and the current mirageforums.net domain was purchased by Amy and a newer install of phpbb was set up on the current web host. The current forum still has some posts from Geo's forum, so this is a good place to stop the story.