Transformers Network was created in August of 2000 by Steven to replace Extreme Beast Wars, his previous TF site. Extreme Beast Wars was lacking in both design and content, yet it received many visitors. Within a month the site was receiving about 200 hits a day. He would not consider that a good number today, but back then he was excited about it. Steven continued to add small amounts of content for a few months, finding it more tedious to continue the site each day. He was very soon dissatisfied with the site and decided to create a whole new site.

After a few days of thought he was able to think of how he wanted the new site to look, but still had not decided on a name. Without much thought, he decided to name it TFN. He began his first draft of the site on Dreamweaver, an HTML program which he was just introduced to. He was rather proud of the design he was able to produce. It looked almost exactly how he wanted it to. The visitors of the previous site began to visit TFN. At this point Steven was determined to have the site receive more visitors. After a few months of improving and updating TFN, he decided to acquire staff to help with updating the news section. The decision proved a good one. There was finally some variety in the news. As the months went by he grew tired of updating the site. He was on the edge of quitting, but Steven continued on.

Soon he received complaints about the site's design. He did not agree at first, but soon realized that the site did not look as fantastic as he had first thought. After almost a year of the same design, he knew it was time for a change. He redesigned the site. The new design was excellent and professional and is still used as the basis for the overall look of TFN today.

In January 2002 we began a new era of TFN. Steven is going off to college and no longer has the time to look after the site. At first he thought of closing it but then decided to pass it on to members of the staff. The legacy continued with Frank Mondello as the owner/webmaster and Jess as the co-webmaster. A short time later Frank got a job offer to be a plant supervisor for Verizon. He no longer had the time for the site. So Jess took over as owner/webmaster. It's been that way ever since.

December 2002 marks this sites darkest hour. December 7, 2002 the server that the site was hosted on (formerly Fangen) is hacked and destroyed. Though most of the site was backed up we did loose some of our more recent content including news, forum posts, art, etc...Various TF Sites and fans sent their sympathy and support in suprising numbers. So many were affected by the loss of this site and the fact it may not go back up that it was determined we'd find a new server and begin again. This proved easy when a server found us and made a gernerous offer to host. So December 26, 2002 we went back online only to have the new server Gonkdroid.com/SouthernIsland.com get hit by an electrical storm thus frying the new server. You could say we ended 2002 with a bang, literally. They had us back up in a week. So we began the reconstruction after the storm.

January 2003 we had a face lift still keeping the look of the original orange design, but in April of 2003 we were hacked again. However we learned from our mistakes, and even though putting the site back up was still a big task , we didn't lose as much content as before. Several hackers attempted to hack the site during this time and even though some succeeded we were back up within a week with the help of Joseph Reiter, webmaster of SouthernIsland.com.

In late August of 2003 Southern Island announced they were going to become an E-Commerce site and could no longer support Transformers Network on their servers. So ended the partnership with Southern Island, though, they remain an affiliate of ours today sending us updates on the latest TF statue products and anything related to Transformers they may have.

September of 2003 we joined in a partnership with Dave of Collectable Kingdom who hosted the site for that month. However, the staff and I were growing weary of free site hosting and the restrictions it entailed. Even though we are grateful to Dave of Collectable Kingdom, it was time for a change. The partnership with Collectable Kingdom therefore ended.

October 9, 2003 marked a kind of 'Independence Day' for Transformers Network. We aquired our own server space with a new host,S&B3000. We are no longer paid for by outside parties, and this gives us the freedom to do more with the site. Today we have the power to create subdomains and so much more on Transformers Network. Now we are ready to rock with our new found independence.

In the following month of November 2003, long time staff member and now one of the co-webmasters, Ken Adams implemented a new design for Transformers Network. He worked on the design for close to 4 months, and now it was time for yet another change. The new design has us "back in black" while still keeping the basic layout of the original orange design, and also has a look and feel of the original black design with some key differences. The images are enhanced and the site has become more graphical as Ken has added his own special twist to the design of Transformers Network. Ken's redesign of the site is the design you see today.

In the Spring of 2004 we started to out grow S&B3000. They could no longer handle the high bandwith of the site for a price that would fit into our budget. As our hits steady increased so did our bandwith. So it was time to find a new host. We said and thank you and a nice goodbye to S&B and went on the prowl for a new host.

Late March 2004 we tried a new host called HostGator. They could handle the bandwith, however we were on the new host for less than a month as we soon discovered that the new host could not handle the CPU load. So we had to move on yet again.

Late April we aquire a host called Anhosts. This host seemed to be able to handle our bandwith and the cpu load or the most part. However on May 3rd we were hacked yet again. Though we had alerted the host of this and tried to work with them on the issues, they freaked out accusing us of hacking our own site and suspended the account for undertermined amount of time. So we asked for our money back and in turn left Anhosts.

May 24, 2004 we find a host called Exquisite Hosting. Explaining the problems TFN had before, they worked with us to ensure we didn't have any corrupt files (as Anhosts had accused) in our backup of the site that had been made the same day of the attack. They also worked with us to build a custom plan to suit all of TFN's needs and to eliminate any of the other issues we had with the hosts before.