Vereto has been going for 12 years. It’s taken a lot of forms over that time and that’s why Vereto stuck as a name, it’s meaningless and can be whatever I want it to be. Around 9 years ago I created some spin offs of the name as a practical way of keeping the services I run logically separated with a naming convention of: Vere*, like Veretium, Verethiyan, Verelaxis. I only had the vereto.net domain name and I really wanted a .com at the time so I bought veretium.com.
The idea was that vereto.net would be community network and veretium.com would be some kind of software emporium where people could buy and download the software I made.
That didn’t work out that way though and veretium.com became a server for my services and vereto.net for 3rd party services. I didn’t charge money for anything. I didn’t buy any of the other names as domains so they just ended up being server hostnames from time to time.
I got into Godot game development around a year ago or so and when creating a splash screen, I wanted to use the typical vereto logo which has stuck around almost as long as the name, and decided that I wanted to make a virtual arcade. So Veretium Arcade was first used with Galactica in January 2024.
Vereto was, for the majority of the time, centered around TeamSpeak. I made a server, created some rules for it and sent a link to some friends. Without my intervention people started showing up from all over the world, friends invited friends and became a great place to meet new people with each new person vouched for by someone already in. After some years discord came along and people started leaving. At that time I was also losing interest in the whole thing. I was becoming less interested in meeting people online and started traveling a lot. I met some of the people from vereto IRL and I felt like it had come to its natural conclusion.
Until I moved away from my home country and suddenly vereto had a purpose again, to connect me back with my family and friends. To continue to do the things we used to do together but online and do it in a way that people would want to use these things because they genuinely like it, like when the TeamSpeak Server was busy.
That was strengthened by the pandemic. I started using Terraform to make ephemeral servers so we could use the beefiest servers for our events, like gaming and playing music together online with Jamulus. I started game development so I could continue to play the card game Wizard with my friends.
It became all about having fun with people I already am connected to so I wouldn’t lose the connection with them.
So, I have no plans to stop and I am working on a lot more, with a little help from my friends 