DiscoveryGC: 4 Years Old

[Igiss]

With about 14 thousand members of our board, every day of the year brings many, many birthdays. However, one is special: birthday of the board itself.

Precisely 4 years ago, on June 14 2005, I've created the first introductory threads of the Discovery Gaming Community. You can check out those two, for example: Welcome to Discovery Gaming Community, and Discovery Launched!. No one could predict back then that Freelancer will become our main subject for years to come.

Around that time, the first version of Discovery, 4.72, was released, and later Discovery 4.73 was uploaded to Lancer's Reactor, being the first public release of the mod for the community. So, June 14 can also be considered the birthday of our mod. We will soon work on collecting an archive of early Discovery versions, some of which are not available for public download anywhere right now.

Surprisingly, the recent How long do you play on Discovery? poll showed that at least two of our members were playing for more than 6 years. This shows that even with current level of technology time travel is not such an unrealistic thing. Also, this obliges us to continue running the server for at least two more years, otherwise the space-time continuum will be deteriorated... oh well.

Some things on Discovery history that are worth checking are located in the depth of the General Discussion forum. For example, Know your admins thread contains info on all Discovery server admins, old and new. As of more recent stuff, Discover Development Team listing thread gives you insight on who was working our recently released mod version, Discovery 4.85: Reunion.

Regardless if you've been with Discovery for years or just joined: stay with Discovery, and if you left, remember to return one day!