Let's reflect on 25 years of Shacknews with this special anniversary trailer
For Shacknews' 25th anniversary, enjoy this special trailer commemorating the site's history.
Today is a special day in the history of Shacknews. On this day, 25 years ago, Quakeholio was born. A small fansite dedicated to all things Quake would eventually become the destination for all things video games and beyond known as Shacknews. A lot has happened in 25 years. The site has undergone a lot of changes, a lot of different looks, and has evolved with the times. For today, we're honoring the past 25 years with a special reflection on the history of Shacknews.
Shacknews was once the product of a single imagination, that of founder Steve Gibson. His dedicated Quake fansite would eventually grow into Shugashack and later into Shacknews. The site would expand beyond Quake and cover other great PC gaming titles of the day, including Doom, Wolfenstein, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, and many more. The site would also branch out into coverage of console games, covering the very best of Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and beyond.
Shacknews has also gone through many site revamps. There have been several home page design updates. The site has experimented with different ideas, like the Weekend Confirmed podcast and the Shacknews Daily news show. Our video presence has grown tremendously to the point that big name celebrities like Mike Tyson and Ice-T have come onto our Twitch channel and played games with us.
And of course, Shacknews has jumped into the esports scene in the way that only Shacknews can. We've honored our Quake origins, holding regular tournaments like The Great Quakeholio Tournament and holding old-school gaming tournaments at events like E3.
Many people have walked through the doors of this website. In one way or another, they would all do it for Shacknews. We celebrate 25 years today and endeavor to keep Shacknews going for 25 more. Enjoy this trailer and continue to do it for Shacknews!
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yay! Lasted longer than my marriage!
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I still remember the moment a friend in my high school computer class showed me the website he was checking out. Thanks for all of the memories since 1998, sCary’s Quakeholio!
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I can't believe it's almost(?) 25 years. Holy shit. I've been here since the beginning. I lurked for a good year or two after the forums and chatty were started, and my first real post that I remember was a reply to abrasion about my experience with some piece of hardware or something.
I found this place when Steve was posting early Quake screenshots and stuck around through a ton of name and URL changes. -
Man Ice T sold it hard, the man is just a pro
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mf...25 years. I was 11 when this site got started. Maybe started contributing when I was in my early 20s.
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Getting quake 1 and quake world was big enough on its own, but glquake was the killer app for the 3D video card revolution. I will never forget the first time I loaded it up on my voodoo1.
I was a lurker then, I visited the page every day and followed the forums but never posted anything. That all changed on 9/11. I needed a place to vent, and while my post history is minuscule compared to other long timers, I have appreciated this community and website.
And seriously, Quake>UT, go back to blues news if you think otherwise ;-)-
Quake always ran like shit for me because my computer sucked (I had no money, and was young).
Once I got decent hardware (Voodoo + K6-2 CPU, lol) Quake II was out so I ended up playing more of that.
Eventually I circled back to Quake and realized it was way better - it's still playable and fun and responsive even today with minimal modifications.-
I had an AMD 5x86 133 when Quake first came out. It "ran", but not spectacularly. When I upgraded to a Pentium 200mmx I was blown away at the performance jump. Then it jumped even further with the voodoo1. I really do miss the "wild west" of PC building back then. I really wish they'd build affordable FPGA's (on PCIe cards) so the community can come up with the next thing to bring drastic performance upgrades to. Gah, it may not even work, I am still just mesmerized by the Amiga architecture, and it still influences how I think about things (that and FDDI).
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This site has always been sCary's Quakeholio to me.
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Haha go Shacknews! 25 years, man oh man. I think I started coming here around 2002 or so, but it was already old by then!
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Congrats on 25 years Shack. And to all the supporters and chatty folks who’ve propped it up all these years, well done. Long live Shacknews.
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#ReleaseTheGBurkeCut
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Also more cats.
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And still no college degree to show for it!
J/K happy anniversary! -
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This is totally not a site written by bots - https://firingsquad.com/
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I just checked on one, Blues news, and it's still around. I haven't been there in at least 15 years.
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Pretty sure that site is how I found this den of ham sandwiches and villainy.
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I guess technically IGN.com started in 1996 as well but that was designed to be a bloated catch-all behemoth from the word go. Shacknews at least started out as a low stakes weblog on Quake 1.
Also I was going to say Bergman's site loonygames but it looks to be down at the moment. Memory serves a few years back he was just going to let the domain or hosting lapse or something but someone offered to help with renewal so it remained online. Right now everything is a 404, probably something broke and he's too busy to fix it again.
That said I love it when someone gets a second wind and decides to revive something old. YTMND had a server crash and everyone figured that was the end of the site but then the dude got all reinvigorated (after years of saying he was just going to let it die) and it's back now. For whatever that's worth.
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Wow, Gabe Newell shoutout!
https://youtu.be/fBshMKf2Nzc-
Wow! goosebumps
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what's with the beard
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I feel like it's a quantine beard. Maybe he should shave with one of his knives.
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Congrats Bluesnews!!
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congrats, team!!
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Congrats on 25 years! Pretty amazing in this day and age in tech. I’m glad to have been here for about 20 of them.
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Congrats shacknews, thanks for 25 years.
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Happy Shackday!
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Congrats to Virus and...nevermind.
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Yeah this is cool!
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The real briefcase was the friends we made along the way
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I am surprised that the Shack hasn’t attained more popularity over the years. The fact that it has lasted this long is pretty impressive, now thanks to Asif. As a gaming website, I think it’s the best it’s ever been for sure.
There was a time when Chris Remo was here, that I thought it could have changed the direction of Shacknews. He was trying to do a shack gaming blog or something and he also had a different way of reviewing games, both of which seemed superior to me at the time.
Steve disagreed, and ultimately the Shack didn’t go in that direction, but I wonder what would have happened if it did.-
Pretty much this. Cheers
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Congrats!
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yay shacknews you magical entity
