Oct 022008
Ah, memory lane. Take a trip back to the year 2001 with Google’s anniversary search page. Google made available search results for January of 2001 in honor of their 10th birthday. I know it’s not currently 2011, but a 7 1/2 year journey back for a 10th anniversary isn’t too bad.
I tried looking myself up and found some interesting entries. Some of particular note (using google’s cached links):
- I was working for sofcenter.com posting news and managing their site. I also had a sub-site within sofcenter dedicated to mapping tutorials for Soldier of Fortune. Yup, this is where I began my obsession with helping others in mapping for games.
- I hosted my own forums on ezboard to help others with mapping. In my personal profile, I mentioned that I was working on a gaming community hub under the domain foyleman.com.
- I produced a couple of SoF maps, one of which was for a mapper’s guild that I started. The guild would have mapping contests that would promote out-of-box thinking. One such contest was to create a map using 100 brushes or less.
hehe that’s awesome, unfortunately i still had dial up in 2001 so you wouldn’t have found me anyware, and i was only 11 so i wouldn’t have been up to much
haha. This makes me think of my first PC I ever had. I didn’t have broadband until late 2003 (128kbp/s) and my PC was running Windows 95, running at 200MHz. Sheesh, the only game I owned was Doom, C&C:Tiberian Sun and ‘The Way Things Work’. I didn’t even get a new machine until 2003 and, funnily enough, bought it from the place I work at now.
Windows Messenger sucked when everyone else was using MSN Messenger 7 with these things called display pictures. lol.