Quake and QuakeWorld
Early public servers, high ping, latency problems and the move to QuakeWorld to make online play work better on the internet of the time.
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About
Roots and staying power.
Wargamers.no is the public gaming and server identity for selected multiplayer servers run by people with long roots in Norwegian online gaming.
Not new
This did not start last week.
Wargamers.no is not a commercial hosting service, a startup, or a social media project.
The servers, communities and admin work behind it have been built voluntarily over many years by people who wanted good places to play.
Games changed. Domains changed. Platforms changed. The basic idea stayed the same: run good servers, keep cheating and pointless drama away, and make it worth coming back.
Some communities lasted for years. Some disappeared with the games they were built around. Some turned into friendships and relationships that still exist today.
History
Where we come from
The early roots go back to Norwegian online gaming communities around esports.no, with servers for games such as Quake, Starsiege Tribes, Unreal Tournament and Natural Selection.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Counter-Strike became a major part of the story through cstrike.no. At its peak, the setup included multiple full servers, fixed-map favourites and a large active player base before modern matchmaking and platform launchers became the normal way to play.
Other games and communities followed over the years, including Battlefield, Star Wars Jedi Knight II, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat and a long list of Half-Life mods. Some were large. Some were niche. Many were busy around the clock.
Selected history
Some of the names along the way
The dates are approximate. This is a short history, not a formal archive.
esports.no
Early community and hosting identity for games such as Starsiege Tribes, Unreal Tournament, Quake and other multiplayer servers.
cstrike.no
Counter-Strike-focused community with multiple full servers and fixed-map favourites such as de_dust, de_dust2 and de_rats2.
SAMC.no and Taskforce.no
Server Admins Mot Cheating and the related Taskforce admin cooperation brought together Norwegian server admins, shared knowledge and coordinated against cheating.
Battlefield, Jedi Knight and Natural Selection
Battlefield servers, Star Wars Jedi Knight II through jedi.no, Natural Selection and later Natural Selection 2 were part of the wider hosting history.
lfd.no
LFD started as Linux Friendly Developers, originally a clan tag, and later became a broader technical, hosting and historical identity.
Left 4 Dead
LFD fit naturally with Left 4 Dead, with several servers launched and later moved into Left 4 Dead 2 as the game changed.
Wargamers.no
Wargamers.no became a gaming community around World of Tanks, World of Warships and World of Warplanes, connecting many clans and regular players.
Selected servers under one flag
Wargamers.no now gathers the active gaming and server identity in one place, starting with selected multiplayer servers worth keeping online.
Identity
LFD and Wargamers
lfd.no
LFD remains the broader technical, hosting and historical identity. It is connected to infrastructure, older projects and the wider archive of what came before.
wargamers.no
Wargamers.no is the active public gaming identity: current servers, future server plans, player-facing rules and the place where the gaming side belongs.
Why now?
One clear home
For many years, different games, domains and communities lived under different names. That made sense at the time. A Counter-Strike community did not need the same identity as a Jedi Knight server, a Left 4 Dead group or a World of Tanks clan network.
Today, that is less useful.
Wargamers.no gathers the gaming and server work under one clear name. Not to make it bigger than it was, and not to turn it into a business, but to give the active server work one clear home.
Selected multiplayer servers. Maintained properly. Clear rules. Enough history to know why that matters.
Acknowledgements
People who helped shape this history
Wargamers.no and the communities around it were shaped by more people than any short page can properly list. Some hosted servers, some moderated, some built tools, some kept communities alive, and some simply made the servers worth returning to.
Some of the names and nicknames connected to this history include:
- HC / Variable
- Jan / Snipy_
- Jørgen / Harev
- Anders / Natisha
- Michael / Dallas
- Fabian / FTR
- Lars / Dark Viking
- Tonje / Wedula
- Kenneth / Thorium
- Elling / Dr. Radiaki
This is not a complete archive or ranking. It is a small acknowledgement of people who were part of the server, admin and community history behind Wargamers.no.
People
More than servers
The history behind Wargamers.no is not only about servers, domains and game titles. It is also about the people who played, hosted, moderated, argued, helped, returned and stayed.
Some names are part of that history in a more personal way. Lars Bratlie, known as DARK VIKING, was one of the people who helped carry the admin and community work. He passed away far too early, and his memory is preserved here.