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The Web 2.0 events site is getting a reboot with help from Kickstarter, Twitter and Foursquare.

Way before Facebook events became a standard for managing social gatherings, there was Upcoming.org. Launched in 2003, Upcoming was a way for you to track events you planned to attend, invite your friends, and see the events they were going to.

Upcoming was one of the first sites that used the concept of social networking to go beyond pages and profiles, and it focused primarily on art and technology events around the world. The founders sold it to Yahoo in 2005, and like many companies so acquired, Upcoming got shut down last year, following years in which its service had merely slumped along.

Yahoo, however, recently offered to sell Upcoming.org back to its original founder, and now it's ready to make a comebackthis time, promising not to make the mistake of selling a company users love.

And its using new social technologies that werent available the first time around.

Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming, launched a Kickstarter campaign on Wednesday to bring back the social events manager. The campaign achieved its goal of $30,000 in just 90 minutes. Baio is the former CTO of Kickstarter, so it makes sense for him to launch his new venture on the crowdfunding platform.

His campaign is half nostalgia, half promises of a new and better Upcomingone that leverages our social networks to find events that our friends and contacts are excited about. Anyone who remembers Upcoming as a place to find and connect with friends can appreciate the homage to its historical mission; new users may just be interested in a social events manager that doesnt rely on Facebook.

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Upcoming, The Social Events Database, Is Planning Its Rise From The Dead