Cosmo's Factory

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Cosmosfactory.org: also known online as Cosmo's Factory.

Name:

Domain: cosmosfactory.org

Creation Date: 10/9/1992 / 10/10/1992 / 3/19/1997

Created By: Jim 'Cosmo' Hetzer (out of spite)


History

On October 9th, 1992 Cosmo presented a version of Rocky Horror on the web to his cast The Denton Affair (of Cincinnati) but they dismissed it as not being something they should waste time on. So on December 10th, 1992 Cosmo debuted Cosmo's Factory at www.iglou.com/~cosmo. Due to high traffic to that one domain Cosmo relied on a friend who also ran a website on Iglou. So early files either came from www.iglou.com/~mkking. On March 19th, 1997 Cosmo's Factory Officially Moved to cosmosfactory.org.

Random Facts:

  • Cosmo's Factory has been on TV twice; A British TV show called Rockets and once on the Sci-Fi Channel.
  • In 1994, Cosmo's Factory was sent a cease and desist from Sony Records due to an audio clip on the website of Tim Curry singing a Van Morrison song. It was mailed via snail mail because Sony wasn't using email yet. From what we understood Cosmo's Factory was the first C&D from Sony toward a website.
  • In 2004, Cosmo's Factory had over 18,000 total files. Currently, there is over 27GB of data under Cosmo's Factory. Much of which isn't directly linked to and there for reference or quick access.
  • At it's peak, Cosmo's Factory's Cast Spin-off Rockycast.net hosted over 100 email accts and over 130 web sites and Redirects. Similar to bit.ly does now.
  • In 2005, Cosmo's Factory's Parent company The Rocky Horror Preservation Foundation owned over 100 Rocky Related Domain names.
  • Originally the Cosmo's Factory mainpage had a counter which tracked mainpage hits. Cosmo's Factory stopped counting hits in 1998 and restarted counting at zero.

We stopped counting in 2006 at 2 1/2 million front page hits.

  • The night Glee premiered Rocky Horror, Cosmo's Factory received 254,000 hits in two hours. RockyHorror.com actually went down do to the high traffic after the show.
  • At it's peak, Cosmo's Factory would get as many as 10,000 hits a day. Now (2015) Cosmo's Factory gets about 1,500 hits a day.
  • In the first 10 years, Cosmo's Factory received so much traffic it was cheaper to start a web reseller company then to pay for it. CF Multimedia.org begun.
  • In the mid 2000's Cosmo started The Rocky Horror Preservation Foundation. It is a non-profit doing free webhosting for Rocky Casts and Rocky related sites.
  • On May 5th, 2001: Cosmo's Factory debuted Make-a-Flyer. A (pre-HTML 5/Flash) flyer generator to help casts advertise their shows.
  • On August 10, 2000: Cosmo's Factory debuted Clue debuted a section for The Phantom of the Paradise, Lost Boys, A Clockwork Orange, Clue, and Dune. All under the domain entitled Cosmo's Cult Movies.org
  • There have only been two times when Cosmo's Factory was down for more than one day.
  • In 2010, Cosmo's Factory's forum (rockycast.net) and it's image gallery (imagefolio) were shutdown by The FBI & The Department of Homeland Security. I cannot provide more info on this but we helped

do our part.

  • Although Cosmo's Factory has always claimed to be the largest Rocky Horror Website on the Internet. This isn't exactly true. At this point (2015) with no image gallery. Rockyhorror.org may be larger.
  • Although Cosmo's Factory is considered the first Rocky Horror website on the internet. Byron Bremmer had a FTP site first.

And although he didn't have a webpage or HTML it was first.

  • On Oct. 31st, 2015 Cosmo's Factory will bring it's gallery back online. Currently, the new gallery will have over 11,000 pictures.
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