Goldtoken was created by two brothers (one of which went on later, and was replaced by a trusted volunteer) on October 5, 1999 (when the site went beta).
After two years, this website now features the following games with variants: chess, checkers, reversi, Connect Four[?] (called Four in a row on the site), and Battleship (called Salvo on the Site)
wikipedia.org dumped 2003-03-17 with terodump