Memories of CS, Blueyonder and IEO

[Orange]

Originally Posted by Blunteh

...untill work installed a BT 128Kb/s ISDN line for weekend call out work \o/ (obscene ping in comparison to analogue dial up, my lack of skill leveled me back down though)... that and Freeserve once Wireplay opened up to other ISPs \o/

Yeah, JANET was a bit of a revelation as well.

[Orange]

I have some vague recollection about Freeserve's connection being dogshit for gaming?

[wooly-back-jack]

did anyone ever find love with UK2 dating by the way? it was always advertised on servers

[Bast]

I linked up with your mother on it, BOOM HEADSHOT!

[Bast]

Originally Posted by Tony.Montana

Can you blame me when I had to put up with this?

That's you and Muff by the way

and you weren't brilliant either btw! better than me yes, we all tried hard, had a lot of good results, and generally had fun (if things were going our way)

[Bast]

rofl though, that vid is cracking me up, the way we just walked away at the end thinking 'fuckit'

[Tony.Montana]

Mate, I was shit, I said as much earlier in the thread. Maj was the only decent player among the lot of us, including everyone who played in mixes with us. Fuck knows what he was doing playing with us bunch of twats.

But yeah, we had a good laugh overall I think, despite the rows, name-calling and immediately signing off IRC after a bad loss in a PCW.

[Bast]

you certainly weren't shit, none of us were, we just weren't great either, and I wish you'd have posted that vid years ago, still can't stop laughing at it

but yes Maj was above us all by a mile, the brummy git

[gaz]

I remember Tony Montana as being the guy who always knew it was really me when I was playing under a fakenick on a BYCS server as an undercover admin

e: hello :o i'm 36 now and I started playing CSGO this year. The community is garbage. Still, it's something to do to fill the gaps until the sweet release of death.

[LordSoth1979]

Ahh the good old blueyounder days, good times.

[Intron]

Originally Posted by Jim

Oh and, you missed off the best bits of the past...

- Elrond and his one-inch death punch threats

- Jennifer

... Jennifer..... omfg i thought i had pushed that from my mind!..... guess not

[Intron]

I also wanted to give a mention to QRGR they were great and let me join them for CS games and also at the I-Series, I never had a solid home or clan and always floated about but was thankful the likes of 4k and QRGR gave me a home at these events.

[leady]

I'm assuming that's the very very none safe for work picture ?

[Lungboy]

CS is 17 years old today apparently.

[The Scientist]

I'm pretty sure I was playing the alpha/beta in 1999.

[Big D]

From my website that is still there!

Sunday 18th July 1999

Due to increasing infatuation with Counterstrike, I decide to design a web site based on that very subject.

In fact our first clan game was in 1999

22/11/99

KK

Assault (CT) - 0/10

Docks (CT) - 1/7

FRIENDLY

http://www.bigd.nildram.co.uk/bftdar...bftd_v_kk.html

[mr_o]

Originally Posted by stepper

Mr_O (the most infuriating pilot to fly against by some distance)

Why thank you kindly!

[NWA]

Hi no longer quite so big D! Long time no see though I do enjoy seeing you living your life on Facebook. Nice archive that page, shame that it seems that you didn't play NUKE for a while but quite a lot of memorable names in that clan war record.

[Solex]

There's a lot to miss from those old times, and I think most are guilty of being a bit juvenile in-game and in-forum in those 17 odd years. It was all a part of growing up though, and although these days I really wish I would have spent the many many hours I did on CS on something productive like learning a 2nd language or to play a musical instrument, I still look back on them fondly.

I really miss the old internet as a whole, before it was taken over by mumsnet whine-a-lots and attention-whore bellends. I miss the days that the old muppet down the road didn't even know how to get online, never mind bore you with fascist shite on facebook or complain about something on tripadvisor. The CS days did inadvertently teach me a lot about technology though, and that formed a good basis of my IT career which continues today. If it wasn't that determination to squeeze every last drop of performance out of my PC and network to play CS, I wouldn't have had the knowledge to do as well as I did at Uni I don't think. From soft modding my ATI 9500 (as the 9800 was just too expensive ) to configuring local IRQ's to network QoS prioritisations to configuring a linux server to host a game publically - all that investigation came because of CS - and back then the Stackoverflow's and Githubs etc were yet a twinkle in silicon valley's eye. You simply had to work stuff out yourself or trawl through forums like this one.

My clan action was less famous here, starting out in RHA and zT* and then SHEEP and others but finally NUKE with T-Bag and co in its final incarnation. I still have the NUKE homepage I designed on my qnap somewhere. Maybe I'll dig it out.

I occasionally get a message on steam from RJ saying "DEAD GAME" despite us not playing together for years and it reminds of the wireplay/bygames days. I almost shed a tear when that timemachine link of bygames.com finally loaded. Don't think I've seen that logo in 12 years.

I remember the bygames full rotation servers 1 an 2 the most. I remember playing with [email protected] as well terrorising him with the mac10 on cs_estate and cracking the same old joke every time he fell out of the 2nd floor windows "lol [email protected] went splat" usually with a reply of something like "-_-". He was always friendly though and you always knew where you were with him!

Back then I used to play under the name of 4Q - I was also once half-decent enough to be called a cheat regularly by Fondle and co - with that ending in a crescendo of him banning me on his last few days of Admin ability.. probably because I was playing up to it as usual. I managed to get unbanned shortly after by moaning in IRC I think.

There was also a point when I was top #1 and #2 in the Wireplay public league as I somehow found enough time to play CS on two steam accounts and still top it. I don't know if that meant that I was good or that the rest of the league were shit

[[n00b]Zippy]

Originally Posted by Solex

I really miss the old internet as a whole, before it was taken over by mumsnet whine-a-lots and attention-whore bellends.

^^ this

[Tony.Montana]

I had no idea that 4Q was Solex. I always thought you were a decent player on BY. I assumed you'd disappeared when the servers died.

[Solex]

Yup. I decided to try and see if I could drop the hax accusations and bad blood when trickery was launched with a new alias coupled with less attitude and it seemed to largely do the trick. But my steam account name is still 4Q2 so some people worked it out eventually. 4Q1 was somewhat ironically my second account. Think I stole a CD key from PC world from an empty box for that, back when shops were too dumb to realise all you needed was the serial if you already had the ISO

[Solex]

Ha you know what this thread is missing (although I'm pretty sure it was a trickery thing and not a WP/BY or even CS related one)

WIGAN TONIGHT

[cunning-stunt]

Originally Posted by Solex

Ha you know what this thread is missing (although I'm pretty sure it was a trickery thing and not a WP/BY or even CS related one)

WIGAN TONIGHT

http://trickery.net/vb/showthread.php?t=36771

[GroovYF]

Classic thread. Forum invasions... you don't get those anymore, do you?!

[[n00b]Zippy]

The risk of PTSD is too high

[ReichSteadyCrew]

its a pity the site is no longer there and many of the images aren't hosted anymore. Was there an archived version of it?

[wooly-back-jack]

probably find them on fb by searching for put a donk on it groups

[Bast]

you suck wooly, you suck mazz, you suck tony, that is all.

[Bast]

I even used a fullstop, I've got my gammar riyt