Just over eight years ago, CS-Nation launched with a bombastic post which featured an ultimately nonfactual claim that we were the "official" fansite for Counter-Strike. We have kept that journalistic standard for subsequent 96 months. My first post, an interview with the creator of Counter-Strike, included witticisms only a fourteen-year-old could muster, such as "muhaha" and — ohmygod — "crazy cats," and shortcuts only a fifty-year-old could envy, such as "Q's" in lieu of the pathetically wordy "questions." Since then, of course, college life had shown the way: one never says "crazy cats" without being the guy wearing a fedora and one doesn't utter "Q's" unless your leather jacket is the glue between you and a jukebox.
Since CS-Nation — not the official Counter-Strike fansite — opened its doors, we've seen some great people come and go. Crazed Dingo started the site and later tried to shut it down. RzE seemingly disappeared, but really just renamed himself as rizzuh, before actually disappearing — except to briefly and suddenly reappear when the oppurtunity to self-congradulate presents itself. But long before he disappeared, he quit and gave the reins to ChuChuRocket, who disappeared after a few weeks.
Then came MikeJ, who ran the site, and puffycloud, who reviewed skins; and after that came Zips, who ran the site, and Nighthawk, who reviewed skins. There was also asspennies, a one-man Kotaku before Kotaku existed. And who can forget the numerous news posters? And before Ruby on Rails but after PHP-Nuke, when Ajax was a completely ineffective bathroom cleaner but a completely effective poison, the site's codebase — this news post, those comments, all the articles, everything with ".php" — went online after months of development in December of 2001.
A few designs later, and here we are. A Web 1.1 website in a Web 2.0 world. With too many ads and not enough downloads, we somehow still have an awesome community! Zips and the CS-Nation team do a great job of keeping the site up to date. And what does the future hold? We want users to run more of the content on this site. You'll see soon!
Since CS-Nation — not the official Counter-Strike fansite — opened its doors, we've seen some great people come and go. Crazed Dingo started the site and later tried to shut it down. RzE seemingly disappeared, but really just renamed himself as rizzuh, before actually disappearing — except to briefly and suddenly reappear when the oppurtunity to self-congradulate presents itself. But long before he disappeared, he quit and gave the reins to ChuChuRocket, who disappeared after a few weeks.
Then came MikeJ, who ran the site, and puffycloud, who reviewed skins; and after that came Zips, who ran the site, and Nighthawk, who reviewed skins. There was also asspennies, a one-man Kotaku before Kotaku existed. And who can forget the numerous news posters? And before Ruby on Rails but after PHP-Nuke, when Ajax was a completely ineffective bathroom cleaner but a completely effective poison, the site's codebase — this news post, those comments, all the articles, everything with ".php" — went online after months of development in December of 2001.
A few designs later, and here we are. A Web 1.1 website in a Web 2.0 world. With too many ads and not enough downloads, we somehow still have an awesome community! Zips and the CS-Nation team do a great job of keeping the site up to date. And what does the future hold? We want users to run more of the content on this site. You'll see soon!
Then...uni life etc took over...
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