UltraSurf

UltraSurf is an extension that helped the Council use Discord and to circumvent the AHHS administration's blocks early on into the Chromebook Purges. 
== History ==
UltraSurf was spread by word of mouth by Taken Bacon and other memebers sometime during October 2018 before the 8th. On 10/8/2018, the extension was mentioned for the first time in the Council by Taken Bacon, citing it as the solution to getting around the school's blocks. However, quite a few memebers couldn't figure it out, and thus instructions were spread by Taken Bacon and Meme Lord throughout the next day to try to get every memeber using it so they could use discord efficiently. Discord, at this time, wasn't fully blocked yet, but it was inaccessible if you were logged into your chromebook via your school account. Therefore Ultrasurf and extensions like it only worked for the time being on personal accounts.
By 10/12/2018, every memeber was using Ultrasurf. Some memebers like Taken Bacon, PepsiLadd, and The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder were able to use it all the way to graduation, some of them only able to do this thanks to the fact that they had "Safe" chromebooks. Unbeknownst to the Council at the time, Ultrasurf would be the first of many vpns, proxies and workarounds to always be a few steps ahead of the administration. 
As the extension got more popular through 2018-2019, and as more and more students discovered it and the service started to slow down, issues arose. The connection slowed down quite a bit and Ultrasurf wasn't exactly efficient anymore. It wasn't even needed for a while when on 11/15/2018, Meme Lord discovered a ripoff discord app for chrome and this was shared with the Council; though some had trouble with this as well and stuck to Ultrasurf. 
The first hit to Ultrasurf would be on 12/9/2019, when the school removed personal accounts thus disabling the extension. The Snazzmaster would try to make a downloadable version on 5/1/2020, but this wouldn't work. Regardless, a sparse amount of memebers can still use the extension. 
Things would change when Ultrasurf had a small comeback when students were forced to take virtual classes in 2021. Without the school's domain wifi, It would function again somewhat, and allow memebers to get around some minor blocks at home. However, Relay, the administrations new blocking extension, still was able to stop quite a bit, but this could be circumvented with other programs such as 3rd party browser apps. 
== Legacy ==
UltraSurf is still used by some memebers for personal use to this day. It was the first extension used out of nearly a dozen over the Council's time at Abington, and is by far not only the most famous Council vpn, but the best vpn used during Abington overall. It may have dropped out of casual conversation, but it will always be remembered as one of the first tools used to be able to use the Council at school, and to mess with the administration a bit.
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