[Shaver]

I can give you a small morsel....

There were two owners before Steve... Craig and Jeff.

Steve was a the late night "news" guy and eventually the main "news" guy. He didn't really write, he just scoured the Internet for stories. He was and still is remarkable at it.

The original writing staff was pretty tiny.

The first BOOM came after Steve bought the site from Jeff. Around the same time there was a mass-exit from the Sports Gaming forum over at IGN. That's where we picked up guys like Shawn (sdrotar) and Mark (fossen). In fact, for close to a year... there was a kind of Old School OSers and Old IGNers who took a little wild to blend.

From there... the forums really started blowing up. Steve made a ton of great connections...

Yada... yada.... Here you are.

AND... FWIW... I'm pretty sure I (Clay) didn't do a Mass Celling. I believe I'm being framed for that.

AND... my two favorite threads are the dude who did the Atari Basketball write-up that was brilliant... and (I'm biased)... "How Do I Tell Me Girlfriend?"...