Unofficial History of BRBU: WTF Is Going On Here?

[rumsfald]

      THE BACKSTORY
     

Once upon a time, Way back a long time ago, when the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than Mark Volman Team Fortress Classic. On 24 August 2007 (UTC not specified), the first "official" Friday Night Fights (FNF) post on appeared on Destructoid. The post read:

Friday Night Fights has been a weekly event here at Destructoid for a while now, but as of late, it has gone unnoticed by everyone but a small group of faithful Dtoiders.

If you’re unfamiliar with Friday Night Fights, it’s exactly what it sounds like -- a bunch of us get together over Xbox Live, PSN, etc. to play games against each other. The festivities usually start around 10:00 p.m. EST, but some of us like to jump online earlier than that.

This post is meant to be a meeting place of sorts, so post your gamertag or online name, and which games (preferably from the list above) you want to play. Have fun!

In this humble beginning, No PC games were listed. The Dtoid FNF postings continued the following week, this time with a link to the (in)famous Destructoid Steam Group. By the beginning of September, 2007, Destructoid luvrs began organizing the Steam group towards the impending release of Team Fortress 2. By 21 September 2007, Team Fortress 2 began to be listed on the FNF page.



      AN ORANGE BOX APPEARS
           
At the release of the Orange Box, Dtoiders continued to use the Steam group to gang together for FNF.


      AND SO IT BEGINS
           

On 19 October, 2007 FNF had a dedicated TF2 server. However, it was at first a humble abode, little more that a toaster that St. CaffeinePowered would log into from his laptop.   On 5 November, 2007, a permanent server was born.

                Old Schoolers. "@luca ever screen shot I have of is one of you getting stomped :x"

Useless, Old Man, Deep throat Kor soon pitched in some moose nickels to keep the server in operation for the coming year. In December, the user-id plugin was added to reserve slots. (I got reply #26. In before Vandam and Jorge. That's what she said.)

February 2008 - The phrase "all jorge" jumps the shark.


              WHAT's OUR NAME, FOOLS?
     

By the end of March 2008, these here forums were up and running as tf2.scottygrayskull.com. During Arpil, the greatest minds woudl gather to think of a better name for the forums Server #2 came online in April-May, and was the original bearer of the "brbuninstalling" server name. Server #1 would follow suit and bear the BRBU name by Mid-May, after the great FNF kerfuffle with that other dtoid server.




comments from Rummy
-this is a work in progress. if folks add good stuff below, I will fill it in.
-that said, sorry if I left anything out. this is more time consuming than I thought when I started

-Part of this little history lesson is to give accurate context to the current discussions of "who we are" "where we are going" "what are we / should we be playing" and "should we grow, and if so, how?" I'm trying to keep this history thread mostly factual, and keep my comments on the "where are we going" stuff to the other threads.

[Luca Shoal]

CHUT UP >:C. TF2 was like my first online FPS ever. So suck on it :V.

But great jerb so far rummy

[rumsfald]

I didn't say it, Caff did at comment #14.

So fun digging through the archives.

[Dave]

dave crawling out of the euro server and his epic stumble into admin on all the servers for some reason, then his decline into egocentrical mayhem.

[Vongore]

Good job Rummy, i joined the server just when we changed names :3

[ZargonX]

A history worthy of Herodotus, rummy!

I was pleased to join at the dawn of the Orange Box Era.

[Riosan]

February 2008 - [url=http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/CaffeinePowered/tf-tuesdays-all-jorge-is-now-a-meme-69918.phtml]The phrase "all jorge" jumps the shark.

But I found the server in Feb. 

[Versus]

I have no idea when I came along. I just came here one day when I followed jorge into here...he was fucking around with td on mach2 as medics. Also, someone questioned whether I was hacking or not as a sniper.

[HuckBerryGee]

Kor's sexy voice. Never forget.

I got number 55 on the reserved slots list, right before peaches, shortly after toilet duck

[rumsfald]

Kor's sexy voice. Never forget.

I couldn't find a reference for that. That was a temp name of the forums or server (or both), but I'm not sure when.

[Evil Cheese]

I'm absent from most of those historical records. DOES THAT MEAN I DON'T EXIST?! OHSHI-!

Also, don't forget about the filming of 300 Medics.

[Radio Raheem]

sometime later: dakota joins and makes the server awesome to play in.

middle: J Master discovers starcraft and wont shutup about it. also we go on a gay hunt for some reason even though circus rules and you assholes wont admit it (RUM IS GAYING ME RIGHT NOW (NOT GAY!))

distant and scary future: dakota (now with a deep many voice) rages and quits never to be seen again. server dies

[Wedge]

[quote author=SanityMask link=topic=2175.msg62199#msg62199 date=1232409289]
Kor's sexy voice. Never forget.

I couldn't find a reference for that. That was a temp name of the forums or server (or both), but I'm not sure when.
[/quote]

Wasn't there like, that video?  I can't remember what it was for or where it is, but I think I remember it existed.

[rumsfald]

If you have additions (i.e., 300 medics) to the history, it will be easier for me to update if you post facts / URLs / dates, etc.

[fyre]

#22 on the reserve list, bitches. (Reserve slots are the new coolness ranking.  )

[quote author=SanityMask link=topic=2175.msg62199#msg62199 date=1232409289]
Kor's sexy voice. Never forget.

I couldn't find a reference for that. That was a temp name of the forums or server (or both), but I'm not sure when.
[/quote]


That was the temporary name of the server when we broke with Dtoid.



Also...brbuninstalling was a meme before it was our name. Started by Toilet Duck or Jorge, I believe. (I could be wrong.)

And this needs more yiff in hell furfags....

[Evil Cheese]

If you have additions (i.e., 300 medics) to the history, it will be easier for me to update if you post facts / URLs / dates, etc.

The post on Dtoid when it was released.

The actual video.

I don't have any screen caps or a specific date when it was filmed though.

[fyre]

April 03, 2008 - Surf started the Has Anyone Else Seen This thread. Now at 199 pages.

[ScottyGrayskull]

Wow, nice digging rummy.

Whenever the Destructoid forums come back up I'll give some more info. I could do it now, but I'd be missing dates and such.

[CaffeinePowered]

<3 Rummy

[Benito Mussolini]

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