[Pope]

And that's the end of that. The curtains are closed, lights are off, and the cleaning man got laid off. Incredible performance. Think about what's happened over the past 10 years. 10 years! That's insane.

It all started with counter-strike, bleh, but it got me into playing small maps. Then I found day of defeat and avalanche was an obvious choice. 8 person dod server off my home connection did the trick. It exploded when we switched the spawn points. Sim and I started cdrive, good ole cal days. Then, diamond-optic joined with magical super powers of uncanny proportions and ambition. Still, this is the best online community that's existed that had the best administrators out there.

This server basically created my life. I'm not sure why I wanted to host a server. I didn't even know what server meant. I just saw this thing you can download and run on a computer and people can connect to it through a number. Then I realized you could go to college for something like this and my first job after college was managing 40 servers, because I already had the skills from running dod and the website. I can't thank day of defeat enough, and especially people like hawkeye and buck. Isn't that messed? lol. I love the internet.

Even though I wasn't active in the end, this felt like the end of my beginning on the net. The fact that day of defeat as a whole is still running is nuts. Old technology will eventually die, but the name lives on forever!

p.s. fuck cunt ass bitch and shit.