2006

While 2005 was a rather hectic period where the board was still not quite sure what its theme was, by 2006 IGNO was beginning to come into its own. Many of the members at this time still consisted of SG2's high school classmates, but they were joined by more general online users and anime fans who'd happened upon the place, or been invited by existing members. The 'randomness' of Off-Topic became the community's selling point - no longer was it just 'somewhat silly general chat between classmates', but outright chaotic insanity.

Seeing the dramatic shift in style - and after a year of realizing this unknown little forum wasn’t going to get the attention of old CAR members to chat about anime or get people to read my fanfiction -two key decisions were made that would forever change the landscape of the IGNO forums: 1) the removal of all fanfiction-related forums from the board and the downplay of the anime discussion sections, and 2) the defining of a more appropriate acronym for IGNO. Without the fanfiction ties from which 'IGNO' originally got its name, the board was christened anew as Insanity Goes Nearly Overboard.

--SG2, 5/30/16