I'm interested in this too, just from a point of being curious about the tech stack involved.

Pac, the founder of the site, had made the jump to purchase the domain a bit after he started work on the site (It used to be under a different domain I think?)

He did an interview on a podcast, 'My Insane Pace' (Episode 11) where he goes over in pretty good detail the early days of the site.

If you have 27 minutes for a podcast interview between Pac and ALTinsider about how SRC came to be, and... Pac himself, check out

https://podbay.fm/podcast/1272754494/e/1508386427

If the link errors out, go here and search for Pac, it's episode 11 https://podbay.fm/podcast/1272754494