I just wrote a pretty big chunk of post before realising you were around when Niel took over, so I'll just shorten it and fill you in from there. I think LWS went down in May, or at least went into that strange vegetative state with the news updates once every few months. This site was set up at the same time and Tengu sent out a bunch of emails using a backed up copy of the LWS mail list, letting people know we'd found our way here. I guess you must've missed the memo that time around.

CD was up for a few months before collapsing due to some kind of hard drive failure and was eventually restarted from scratch. TGO was around during the original CD, but he didn't really appear much. There's an account named David here now, although I have no idea if it's actually him or not.

edit - it probably isn't