This article was originally posted in October of 1998 in celebration of PlanetQuake's two year anniversary. We are reposting it now to give you all a taste of how and when PQ got started. We're getting ready for PQ's fourth birthday now, and I hope you enjoy this gaming community flashback.
Most revolutions start with a voice in the wilderness.
Often, even the participants don't realize how much they're changing things, not until they themselves are caught up in the wave they started. So it was with PlanetQuake. The online gaming revolution began, in part, thanks to one bastard and to one incredibly cool game. PlanetQuake started when I grew tired of the best Quake websites and resources constantly disappearing for one reason or another, and either reappearing at another URL or not at all. A published author and founder of an Internet consulting and hosting service, Mark got sucked into Quake like a moth trapped by a streetlamp.