2b2t

2builders2tools, more commonly known as 2b2t or shortened to 2b, is a Minecraft anarchy server which has used the same map since its beginning in December 2010. The server is the second oldest continuously running Minecraft server, as well as the oldest anarchy server on Minecraft. Considering that this is an anarchy server, player actions are generally unfiltered, resulting in considerably toxic events to occur, such as random griefs, oddities in chat, and even large scale conflicts. The server has a size of over 7.4 terabytes and has had over 456,213 players join it as of March 8th 2020. The IP address to connect to it is 2b2t.org. The server has a vast history, which most of it is documented here. The server owner is commonly known as Hausemaster, although it is debated if they are the same person as the one who helped start the server. He got his inspiration for the minecraft server from a Garry's mod server he had hosted through 2009 and 2010, and started the minecraft server with his friend georgebush420. The owner has used Anti-Cheats to help keep the server stable, and has on occasions punished players that have intentionally lagged the server. The queue was added to the server in June 2016, and is the first sight a player will see upon logging into the server. Priority Queue can be accessed by donating to the server here, and let's you come in faster.

On September 1st, 2019, the server operator started the test.2b2t.org server, possibly to test newer server hardware. This event lasted for a few days before shutting down.

History
This is a Summary, so it misses out on a lot of important events and details.

Pre-Minecraft
2b2t's name is derived from a Team Fortress server and Clan, 2fort2furious, which in turn derived it's name from the movie 2Fast2Furious. Hausemaster was a regular player on 2f2f, which can be dated back to 2008/2009 as seen on several gameplay videos. Hause hosted a Garry's mod server from 2009 to 2010, but then he shifted to minecraft and started up a server with his friend Georgebush420 under the domain 2b2t.net on the 17/20th December 2010.

Early History
The server was commonly advertised on the Facepunch forums, 4chan, and SomethingAwful under its early days. In early 2012, the server changed addresses from 2b2t.net to 2b2t.org and went down for 3 months.

Rise in Popularity
The server population would stay quite small compared to the 2011 days from mid-2012 to June 1st, 2016, when TheCampingRusher made a youtube video on it. This brought thousands of new players to the server, and the queue (a proxy server used to house players waiting to get into the server when it is full) was added. Since then, 2b2t has only grown in popularity and become a sort of household name in the Minecraft community. The server has been discussed by a few news outlets and many Youtubers. The server also reached its peak of popularity during the Mass queue influx of 2020.

Server Updates
The server's main owner, Hausemaster tends to speak about possible future plans regarding the server. In the recent years, Hausemaster will commonly post two updates every year. Some of these topics include server updates, hardware transfers, and even Server Motto additions and changes.