Seems like when ppl talk about the early days of The Coli, they're basically talking about sohh since the f'ery probably carried over from one site to the other in the early days of the coli. Basically early coli was Sohh part2.
Y'all have been on these forums since the late 90's....
Ok I got some more time
the coli = sohh, no question
What happened was that, as mentioned, sohh had the shiitiest severs on the planet, and the site would go down all the time
It was rumored that the sohh servers were run by hamsters on a wheel that is why you see this smilie

, this smilie means something is slow or it literally means sohh, as in, man does so and so from

still post in the coli?
So going back, the sohh management did realize that the actual website was a dead zone and the forums were the real golden goose. One time they tried this really weird thing were they rebranded the forums as The Dougie

.., yeah in reference to THAT dougie, the management thought they were so cool and creative but everybody was like

So after that they made some deal with another internet company, I don’t know the details (actually nobody knew about this until sohh management was copping pleas during the exodus) but apparently they made some money but it was the equivalent of a 360 deal where the sohh management no longer controlled the forums.
Also some posters started beefing with 4c*an and they came through and and crushed the buildings by hacking sohh, so

was down for weeks, that’s why you aren’t allowed to discuss 4c*an here either
So anyways the servers kept on being shytty and the mods got real arrogant, sohh was the best hip hop forum on the net and motherfukkers weren’t going anywhere so they had a monopoly, they thought
People can provide more details cuz I’m not that deep into sports, but one of the sections in the forums was called The Coliseum, it was the sports section of the sohh forums
During one big game the servers went out and people were pissed with
@cook and
@Brooklynzson took it upon themselves to make a new forum where people from The Coliseum section of

could discuss sports without having to worry about the servers going out and dealing with the mods....so that is why the coli is called the coli, thecoil.com was founded by refugees from the
The Coliseum on SOHH.
Bk and cook recreated the forums sections of sohh, for example TLR is actually The Ladies Room, rebranded as The Locker room etc
everybody was like

, no shtty servers and no mods and no sohh management, better smilies and no corny front page!!! A trickle of posters turned into a flood until the actual sohh forums were dead, it was crazy to see.
And that’s how the sohh forums turned into the coli.com, there is really no difference between sohh and the coli, it’s just different management and the forum sections have slightly different names