http://www.esreality.com/post/1

xsr from 1999 until around 2002

a shame it isn't preserved would have loved to read through the ancient times.

WayBackMachine let's you view the page as it was back in year 200X

lol this is awesome, have some ponies

Yeah and you can use the waybackmachine on several interesting websites such as gas prices for your local region and stuff.

http://web.archive.org/web/20051030060957/htt...rices.com/
http://www.petrolprices.com/

:(

http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://esreali...;id=417879 :(

you can see that without going on that site -_

awesome!!! Loved the old esr pages!

Demo: LeXeR on fire :D

He always was ;_;

What did the x stand for?

found a goldie from 2001, oh how little has changed :))

http://www.esreality.com/post/3005

carmac wanted to play doom3 multiplayer :D

i guess people have been waiting for reborn before they knew it even existed xd

One of the first columns i read 2001 was called something like "is q3 dying" - xsr/esr doesnt really change that much.

xsreality
xenon-hakeem-sujoy started the site in 2000(i believe)
bds, of sk-gaming fame, did the webdesign for xsr/esr
xsr was mainly focused on the american scene because that was where most of the lan action was at. once the cpl dropped quake3, the focus turned to the euro scene.

some other difference:
not many trolls existed in the early days.
people were too busy playing quake to care about creating an online personality. fanboys didn't exist either.

you got your demos from challenge-tv, cached.net, and cyberfight instead of here. took a while to get the ability to post your own demos and even longer before it became popular to do so.

columns, columns, columns
that's what xsr/esr did best back in the day and something i'd love to see return. of course, columns are easier to make when there are tournaments to talk about, so yeah, i'm not holding my breath over that one.

mostly wrong

i was wrong about the demo ability, but that's it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000818052209/htt...lity.com/?


look at the artcles and the names of people posting columns(mostly american related) se7en = american, not the euro

go ahead and try to prove me wrong with the rest if you want

About the no trolls bit it was mostly the same in game. Atleast in q1 when online gaming was still quite new, most ppl where behaving, not much flaming not as much retards around as of now. Good times.

i cant believe we have visitors younger than this site

If you didn't register in 2001, you know nothing about gaming. NOTHING!!

funnily i was registered on xsr1 and registered on xsr2 right after it was 'out', but i forgot my password after a few months, so had to register again. and now that i have database access, i can't find my first account!

Glad you said xsr 1 & 2, I was talking about this site the other day and I was sure there was a site before xsr, guess it was just a server/host change!

from my understanding it was complete overhaul by sujoy on his own, which is the current version/design

Ah, right.

I do remember Sujoy putting up the site design (maybe the old one?) for download for free use.

xsreality was put up for download
i believe it's still up

xsr1 = pre cs site
xsr 2 = when they split the site between cs and q3?

no, xsr1 had cs/q3/unreal/sc
xsr2 is a rewrite by sujoy after xsr1 was gone, with a new design and 'any number of games'.

newb

now i understand why code on this site is so bad

what was the story with nicky? a girl whos doing esport news?

Nicky was cool!

She just did loads of coverage and results and did not act like a typical girl.
Xou is kinda the new nicky, cept he's not as cool and does not have tits.

*woman, who was some sort of PR for our clan Levitation back in the day. Then slowly rolled into esr to remain in the scene a bit because she enjoyed it somewhat. When her kids grew up she had less time and slowly vanished.

wow didnt know that.

Registered: 16 Apr 2002
I am fucking old school.

jesus thats about the time i started playing quake

Registered: 27 Mar 2002
i am more old school!!!


But there are propably still alot more people around that are more old school then us..

19 Mar 2002.

Fellow marchers!

Registered: 2 Dec 2001

ahh yeeeh.

Nov 2001 :)

and you still just use it for the diary function! :D

Registered: 28 Oct 2002

Bah, i'm a noob

Registered: 16 Nov 2002

:(

To be fair was already using the site for a year.

Registered: 15 Nov 2001

Interesting drama of a cheater vs k9-makaveli in 2002.

http://www.esreality.com/post/263232/re-immor...other-guy/

can you give a tl;dr?

I wish the file was still up

back when 40 % rail meant something

By United States of America K9-makaveli
I'm dumb? I've been playing FPS games from 8 years and have lots of experience on the subject.

lol

A brilliant column by Onslaught since lost that summarizes half of what ESR has been about in the last 10 years, as quoted by Thorin:

http://esreality.net/post/2102663/n-a/#pid2103724

this is unbelievably good

Been playing games even good ol' Freddy Flintstone considered to be old.
Been following this site ever since.
Site's been been unworthy for a long time.
I only hooked up just recently, because I noticed the extreme increase of intelligence from the users lately, by judging posts and replies.
It's incredible.
Gotta quit now, Sesame Street is coming up.

2005-ish. I haven't seen it before, haven't met anyone who saw it before either.

Has esr stayed profitable over the years?

I doubt it costs more than 30€ per year to maintain, and Demiurge probably gets paid in crates of cheapest vodka.

and potats to feed him and power the servers