Stupid question about this site.

[I cant spell u]

Who created it?

[Massive Quasars]

Al Gore

[axbaby]

originally id software created the site then gamespy industries hosted it and now i have no idea

[Bdw3]

originally id software created the site then gamespy industries hosted it and now i have no idea

id no makey....

DarkViper made it...

He basically converted Action Xtreme into Q3W iirc...

[Bdw3]

This guy yo!

http://www.caligirl.net/album/darkviper.htm

The site was originaly hosted by Mplayer, then IGN aquired them, and of course later GSI aquired IGN... :icon29: l

[I cant spell u]

This guy yo!

http://www.caligirl.net/album/darkviper.htm

The site was originaly hosted by Mplayer, then IGN aquired them, and of course later GSI aquired IGN... :icon29: l

What was Mplayer?

[Bdw3]

o_0

a gaming website...

Like zone.com, heat.net, and battle.net used to be etc... the original Q3 install even had a option in the server browser to only look for Mplayer servers...

[Synergy]

Do the people who are "high up there" even know this hole still exists?

Or is it merely a leftover forgotten...?

[nsaP]

Holy shit, Mplayer.

That brings back memories. I was an aimbotting fag back then until I realized I could do better without it.

[MKJ]

This guy yo!

http://www.caligirl.net/album/darkviper.htm

The site was originaly hosted by Mplayer, then IGN aquired them, and of course later GSI aquired IGN... :icon29: l

im pretty sure it was hosted by gsi before ign and gsi merged.
remember the We Do Youngsters clan? it got a taboo because GSI thought it to be offensive :icon32:

[DarkViper]

I can give you guys a little history

Quake3World.com was the official community site for Quake III Arena. It was a bit of a partnership between id Software and Mplayer.com. Mplayer.com hosted and maintained the site, as a part of the Xtreme Network division which I had started... it was a network of about 80 fan sites, along with many (about 50 or so) hosted sites for users/mods, etc.

I remember designing the original site back in the day (November '99) over the weekend, with only a few assets that were available... (screenshots ). You can see what it looked like here:
http://web.archive.org/web/199911280021 ... world.com/. It had a few other evolutions as the site continued to evolve and receive quite the traffic: http://web.archive.org/web/200006211511 ... world.com/

Of course it looks TINY on today's desktop resolutions... but it was simple, and it did the job! We released the Q3A demo exclusively on the site for a few days, then it went out to the rest of the world.

After a bit of time, I moved on to work with Infogrames, Inc. down the road from the Mplayer (HearMe) offices, and started managing the Unreal brands online, amongst many other action titles. Before I moved on, my sister Cali Girl (http://www.caligirl.net), who was also working with me at Mplayer at the time, transitioned into managing Quake3World.com, and I would say she did a fine job at it! She came to me about a month after I left and asked if I could help re-design the site again - so I did, again with very few art assets to do so, and this is what it looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/200103011523 ... world.com/

About 3-4 months after I moved on, GameSpy (now owned by IGN) acquired Mplayer.com (http://pc.gamezone.com/news/06_18_01_02_05PM.htm), which I believe turned out to be a bit more of a malicious merger, but that's my own opinion.

Of course with PlanetQuake already existing on the GameSpy Network, Quake3World.com was more of red-headed stepchild... but it has survived, which I am extremely happy and proud of. I give big props to DooMer and the folks who continue to admin this - even IGN and GameSpy for keeping it alive!

Anyhow, that is the history in a nutshell

[Big Kahuna Burger]

whoa

[Doombrain]

lol R&RII

[Nightshade]

THE HANGOUT.


BTW DV, got n00dz of your sister?

[Survivor]

Links need to be orange, and damn that's one way to necro and return to the boards.

[seremtan]

z0mg

[Grudge]

ah, the good old days when imagemaps were the kings of webdesign :nostalgia:

[DarkViper]

LOL - imagemaps are the bomb... even still today, when you want to be lazy with your slices

Now Flash is the new evil.

[MKJ]

flash the new evil? what is this, 1999?
web2.0 is the new buzzword.

and slices are what caused every dork on the planet to create a website. talk about the apocalypse.

beeatches

[R00k]

Cool stuff DV, I'm glad you came back around.