COUNTER-STRIKE:
A Retrospective In Pictures;
A Comedy of Errors

 

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In The Beginning...
It all started in March of 1999. Gooseman and I had talked about working together on a new mod for Half-Life with a Counter-Terrorism theme. First off, the mod needed a named. On March 15th, I talked to Gooseman on icq about the subject of a name for the mod. The proposed possibilities were Counterrorism, Counter-Strike, Strike Force, fRAG HEADS, Counter-Terror, Terrorist wars, Terror-Force, or Counter Force.

"I like Counter-Terrorist Forces, myself" said Gooseman (actual sentences taken from ICQ log). To which I said "methinks it's a bit long... I think counter strike is pretty cool" "I like that. Counter Strike.. Counter Strike it is." said Gooseman. The mod had a name.

A few weeks later after talking to Joost Schurr, we had a home -- hosted at Planethalflife. On March 24, 1999, the web site opened. The first update read: "You've somehow stumbled upon the Counter-Strike mod for Half-Life web site.." Things were pretty slow those first few weeks -- but we were happy to have a handful of people visiting the site.

Three months later on June 19th, beta 1 of Counter-Strike was released. After that came more betas, a site move, new hosted sites, a boy named MTG, and many other funny, embrarrasing, exciting, hilarious events. So many events that it would be impossible to recount them all.