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Shred Company
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It is entirely possible that you've innocently stumbled upon this website whilst desperately searching the net for a good deal
on a nice paper shredder, yes? I'm afraid this is not the place to get such a deal, my friend. Although, if you are serious about bashing
stuff into little indescribable pieces, then... word on the street is that the
Allagheny 3650 is the choice for the discerning demolitionist -
accept no substitute. Now, if you haven't gotten here by way of ill chance, then I suppose this About Us section ought to be
where this website gets explained a tad. A tad being a bit more than a half dozen sentences, yet considerably less than a
metric shitload. Stay with me, it won't hurt much.
Shred Company... To be honest, I'm not sure if even I understand it entirely, but I'll do my best to try and explain. If you are
unfamiliar with online gaming in general, then this is probably all going to be a bit foreign to you. But, odds are that you're here because,
just like us, you spend countless hours at the keyboard firing off virtual ordnance at every 3D beastie that has the audacity to twitch in
your very presence, yes? Words such as ping, lag, gibs, LPB and camper all mean something to you, no? Uh huh... us too.
That's why we're here, and that's why we'll still be here, in one form or another, many, many years from now... gaming. [Queue wavy
filter and dream sequence music...]
In the early 1990's, AIRBlower (formerly the artist known as Capt. YaYa, and then known as Demoncleaner),
rang me up and said "Hey... you have to check this out..." So I smooth on over to his pad (the apartment next door at the time), and he fires up his stupid-fast IBM Aptiva 486,
(which, while booting, left us just enough time to go get a sandwich, pet the cat and flip through the New York Times Sunday edition) and eventually loaded up... a game. And,
from that point on I found myself spending entirely too much time playing
Doom I & II... our first exposure to the world
of the First Person Shooter.
It was also about this time that I became friends with Quasi, who was running a BBS that I frequented, then called the
Bytes 'n Bits BBS. Being keen to the whole FPS thing, Quasi put up a 4-person dial-in server for playing Doom called APCiDoom, and the whole FPS world changed
right then and there. I was amazed... you could actually have other people controlling the nasties that were shooting back at you!
This was beyond cool, and I couldn't get enough. With Quasi being on the other side of the state, we ran up phone bills like you just can't imagine whilst
gettin' our deathmatch on. Times were good.
Then it happened... in August of 1996 iD Software released Quake,
the follow up to Doom I & II. It blew the doors (and some other choice automotive parts) clean off of the gaming world en masse.
Not only was its graphic technology vastly superior to its predecessors, but now you could easily connect via this new thing called The Internet and play with
people from all over the world. It was a virtual bloodbath of global proportions and attained instant success. And... as humans are like
to do, small groups of players began to form... called, Clans. Quasi put up a Quake server which was mobbed 24/7 from day one. After
seeing the teamwork that could be pulled off by some of the clans that were now regulars on Quasi's server (The Guild, Deimos, etc.)
I thought we should have a clan of our own to represent the server. Quasi and AIRBlower liked the idea, so I posted this message to a
usenet group in October of '96:
| Subject: |
CTF CLAN anyone? |
| From: |
Blind Panic |
| Date: |
1996/10/25 |
| Newsgroups: |
rec.games.computer.quake.playing |
Hey now. The sysop at my board expressed some interest in getting a clan going some time ago. We originally tried it with some local
guys on the BBS but, you know how it is: No shows, never there, etc..
Anyway... The server he runs is in northeast NJ. It's soon going to become a CTF server with Zoid's mods. Anyone interested in joining?
Any semi-formed clans out there looking for a home? Lately, the Deimos guys (I think... using DM-name) have been stopping by from time
to time and whooping everybody's butt before leaving. It's embarrassing that we don't have a clan to defend the "home turf", you know?
So drop me a line if you feel like checking it out.
Anywho...there's not really any criteria for joining as of yet. I'm certainly no Quake dynamo, but I don't completely suck. Only, we
probably won't want to use any sort of juvenile clan name like "Dynamite-Dingleberries", you know? And nothing too "cool" either, like
"The Shadow Lords", or whatever. My apologies in advance to any real "Dynamite-Dingleberries" or "Shadow Lords" who may happen to read
this. >8)
A name should reflect the way you play... Don't you think?
Sincerely,
Blind_Panic
Within a day, I had a reply from Chance, who said he was interested (historical note: before reading my post, Chance had been tossing around the name "Shadow Lords". What are the odds?). Chance had a friend who would also be into joining... Stäs.
The following day I got a message from Tick, and we had our minimum five members to become an official iD Clan. We registered
under a name I had been tossing around after watching Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket one too many times... Shred Company or
ShredCo. for short. It stuck... and the membership just snowballed from there. Toonce, Possum, Zephyr & Zot
joined us before the end of '96... Mork, Rico, Sarge, Caretaker, Talon, Tempest, Bengalf,
Kashmir & Hendrix by the summer of '97... Red Razor, Blaq, TwIsTeR, Nailbiter, Merchant,
Silent BoB, Athena, Uranus, Hoycaya, Reaper, Farad'n, Cleopatra, Assembler Maniac,
Sugarcrum, Darkus, BMWM3, Rudemood, Cheif Sitting Duck and Farticus have joined us since, and a bunch of others that came and went over the years.
CTF used to be our main game, back through the Quake & Tribes days. Although now, you can find a Shredder with an interest in just about any game you can come
up with. We've competed with other clans from all over, sustaining a pretty respectable record. But above all, and the thing I'm most proud
of, is the sort of reputation the clan has achieved. Many people in the gaming community have come to know us as the easy-going, good sports
that we try to be. Anyone who's spent any amount of time on public game servers knows that there are quite a few juvenile idiots out there
who are bent on annoying everyone around them. We've run into our fair share of these, as I'm sure you can imagine. But we try not put up
with that on our servers.
We currently number 29 active members, with 50 overall. Our members come in every stripe of humanity, from all over
the world, but mostly from the eastern seaboard of North America. Most of us work in the tech sector, but we have all sorts of
professions amongst us. So much so, that we've actually become our own tech support via our private mailing list. The game is what started it all, but it has
become so much more. Shred Company has developed into an international fraternity of sorts, and many good friends have been made as a result.
There have been some bumps in the road, but it's been mostly fun. And so far, the clan shows no signs of slowing. Currently, World Of Warcraft has captured most of the clans attention, but we still have members playing Quake3 and a few other titles as well. As Always, there's an underlying excitement
waiting for some of the new titles that are coming down the pike.
If you're into online gaming, you're among friends here. Hop on a server populated with Shredders and join the fray. Check out the forums, or shoot an email if you feel the need.
See you in there...
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