Part 01 - 1995/1996
Some of the earliest songs on NG were oldschool drum&bass type of songs. Seeing as drums are the skeleton of a song, we started off with the bare bones. "This is the remix," refers of course to Newground Remix. Tom was 13 when he coined the name "New Ground" in 1991. At the time New Ground was a fanzine for the Neo Geo (Synomym for New Ground). It wasn't until 1995 that New Ground got its own website on fast.net. Tom created webgames such as Club A Seal and Assassin later on.

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Part 02 - 1996/1997
As a university student, Tom had no access to Newground Remix. Having updated his content, he decided to work on a new website and called it Newground Atomix. In musical form we needed to imply some sort of genesis; the birth of the new ground plural. Wanting to preserve the urban feel, Triphop seemed like the best option. Among Tom's newer works were Cat Dynamics and Beep Me Jesus.

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Part 03 - 1998
With no way to redirect users from Remix to Atomix, Tom ignored the problem altogether and just kept on building silly websites. Telebubby Fun Land was his next project and it became a hit! The music of course had to be a bit silly here.

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Part 04 - 1998/1999
When Tom was contacted by Inside Edition about Telebubby Funland, he bought himself a domain name and decided on Newgrounds.com. This choice led to more exposure, and the website grew exponentially. All of the website content was made by Tom Fulp at the time, but he created a separate page which he decided to call "The Portal". Users who wanted to submit their content, mailed it to Tom and he would upload it manually. Tom's personal works included a couple of games, among which the infamous Pico's School. The website slogan was "The problems of the future, today!" Tom's games were still the most popular attraction of the website, so the audio was inspired by his games.

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Part 05 - 1999
Trouble was on the way. Newgrounds' debauchery didn't go unnoticed by the media and a handful of lawsuit threats were aimed at Newgrounds. As a result, Newgrounds had to remove a lot of their content. If that weren't frightening enough, Newgrounds was struggling with the ever-expanding server costs. Luckily Tom was able to partner up with Troma. He even got to star in Toxic Avenger 4. These were scary times. Needless to say, spooky music was the best choice here.

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Part 06 - 2000
The overwhelming amount of entries for the Newgrounds Portal started to become a little overwhelming. Admin Ross developed the automated Portal, a leveling system for the users, and a forum which Wade moderated. To top it all off, Newgrounds came up with their iconic tank logo. You could say war was upon NG: P-Bot was blamming flashes, while Wadolf was out there banning users. Turbulent classic music was definitely the way to go. The animation symbolically features P-Bot, Ross, Wade, a tankman and Scrotum the dog; the first submission to ever grace Newgrounds.

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Part 07 - 2001
This year was full of action-packed animations. Think epic Xiao Xiao battles, Joe Zombie, and Osama Bin Laden spoofs. Among all this chaos there's Bluebaby's flash games, the Mikey animations and the origin of the Clock Crew. Speaking of which, StrawberryClock joined and animated this sequence, adding a ton of other characters that I missed. Many submissions at the time featured music by Linkin Park. As a homage to that moment, we decided on Alternative Metal. An unexpected silence was requested for a "B" moment.

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Part 08 - 2002
Perfect lovemaking music, that's what was requested for this segment. NG used to run a lot of adult ads as a last-resort strategy. Also, the flash portal was flooding with hentai dating sims, which further tainted the image of Newgrounds. Go figure ;)

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Part 09 - 2002
There's a reason this segment starts with the sound of a whistle. It signifies the option to "blow your whistle" on material with malicious content. Among some of the most popular submissions this year was Alien Hominid, Chainsaw The Children, Krinkel's Madness, Skullkid, Legendary Frog and Arfenhouse. Progressive house seemed like the way to go.

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Part 10 - 2003
Industrial music sets the tone for an era of robots. A-Bot was first introduced to Newgrounds with the launch of the audio portal. The NG servers were hosted in New York, but the admins decided to move it to Philadelphia. Due to the success of their web game Alien Hominid, Tom and Dan Paladin started their company The Behemoth.

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