 Gencom, later known as The Solar Apex (TSA) was also an extreme group composed of ex TBH members, the fallout clashed with the release of many DoS (Denial of Services) attacks on the server, eventually leading to its total downfall.Several of these group members went on to develop some of their own platforms similar to Virtual Places.With the decline of the Excite servers, the communities that had used this for a long time did not wish to stay on ICQ or Yahoo, or the alternative Excite Super Chat, launched a few months after the closing of Virtual Places's servers.