TheWolfWeb, also known as TWW or T-dub, is an unofficial message board for North Carolina State University (NCSU), created by Jacob Morgan and Josef Akinc. TWW was the prototype for the "party in college" message boards, which provide an online community for a number of universities across the country. It was also a source of the codebase for TheCollegeWeb but is not part of that network depsite the similarity of all of those sites to TWW. TheWolfWeb is located at www.thewolfweb.com and has a DNS alias at www.brentroad.com, which is the source for another of its names, "Brentroad.com."
It serves as a source of local (Raleigh, NC) news, as frequently posting members of the message board will provide both eyewitness accounts and frequent updates on events in the area, ranging from vehicle accidents to on-campus crime and suicide events. It has also been significant in transmitting many Internet memes through the NCSU student body.(notably the terms pwnt, bwn, and FDT).
TheWolfWeb has gained local notoriety for two major incidents. First, members of the message board discovered and propagated via the board that a local TV news station (News 14 Carolina) would list any school, business, or church closing submitted on a web form. Many members of TheWolfWeb proceeded to use this form to submit bogus, often vulgar school closings, which were then displayed on the TV station for several hours before the station's staff addressed the matter. (See News 14 Carolina for more details.)
A few months later, a member of TheWolfWeb discovered that the NCSU Campus Police crime report web page had the login and password to modify the site stored in the site's source code. Several other members of the message board used this security flaw to create bogus crime listings, often vulgar or insulting to police officers. As a result of the prompt discovery of this by Campus Police, four members of the message board who are alleged to have participated in the postings were arrested. Some TheWolfWeb members attribute the publicity directed towards this case to vengeance-motivated action by the News 14 Carolina station.
TheWolfWeb is free to students, faculty, and staff of NCSU, requiring a valid NCSU e-mail address to register. In addition to message board posting privileges, membership provides a small-sized photo gallery. It offers paying options for access to the site without having a NCSU e-mail account, and also includes a premium account status, with larger filespace for photos.
Members of Note
- jackleg
- salisburyboy
- rjrgrl
- cobracat
See also
External links
- TheWolfWeb
- North Carolina State University
- CyberJournalist article on the News 14 Carolina prank
- WolfWeb thread that originated the News 14 Carolina prank
- Pictures of the News 14 Carolina Prank Note: As of 26 May 2005, this site's images were not available.