EA 117 Gaming Community

Well.

I was born at a very young age. That was in 1975.
I live in San Jose, CA (about an hour south of San Francisco). I'm married (9 years this coming June) and we have three kids - 17, 17 and 19 (his and hers but no ours).

I do IT for a big North American defense contractor. I like it and they pay me to show up. Score.
We have two dogs, both mutts. They like me better than most people. I guess I like them about the same.

In my spare time I like photography, riding my bike, and most forms of activity/incidental exercise.

We started the server many years ago. It was run by a group of us who all knew each other from work. We ran it off a T1 for 6 or 7 years, upgraded to a DS3 and then eventually we broke it off into a service provider. Since then, only a few of us are left - Carnivore-CG and me, and Keith-CG keeps promising he's going to make a comeback someday. We've added new people along the way. We had a brief stint into BF2 and dropped that pretty quickly. Now we have the BF3 endeavor.

With the introduction of the forums, we've developed a community I am [usually] proud to be part of. I'm glad we have this place to have the contact we have, even if it's not face to face.

I have to say, the history of the server is far more interesting than I am.

Did someone get drunk on their 21st birthday and forget to wrap it ... 9 months later a little tadpole arrives.

No, my daughter was born when I was 19.

NS learned what a vagina was when he turned 18 and it evidently took him three more years to work up the courage to touch one

LMMFAO .... guilty

And I just realized my math was off ... Maybe they need to up my meds

LMFAO

Swanny-CG wrote:

NS learned what a vagina was when he turned 18 and it evidently took him three more years to work up the courage to touch one

Your right Swanny, then his mom said go out and find one for yourself

^^^ How many of us knew that was coming .... I know I did.

I got your back

Swanny-CG wrote:
With the introduction of the forums, we've developed a community I am [usually] proud to be part of. I'm glad we have this place to have the contact we have, even if it's not face to face.

I have to say, the history of the server is far more interesting than I am.

Amen to that brother........

Ok swanny I have been asked this a few times and wondered myself (now that I know how the sever got started)

What does EA 117 stand for??

And why is there a space between the EA and 117 ?

When EA still had public servers, they were named EA 12, EA 36, etc. We jumped ahead and went high - why 117 got chosen, I don't know.

When BF2 came out we actually got a "cease and desist" order from EA, they said if we used that name they would boot us from the server browser lists. Like I said, BF2 didn't last long for us.
When we went BF3, I told Spec what happened before and suspected we would get something similar this time around, but they either don't know or don't care. Maybe they have a different naming convention now, I don't even know what they're calling their servers now.

Anyway, that's it.

Swanny-CG wrote:
Since then, only a few of us are left - Carnivore-CG and me, and Keith-CG keeps promising he's going to make a comeback someday.

I've been back for a few weeks now. But after four years away I'm so bad that I'd prefer that no one noticed.

Are you playing under Keith or Keith-CG. I have seen keith on the server but never got a response from that one as to if it was you or not. Anyways welcome back.

I've been playing as Keith. It's good to be back.

Keith wrote:I've been playing as Keith. It's good to be back.

Welcome back Keith.

'the dogs like me more than most people - I guess I like them about the same' LMAO!

I remember those servers back in the day listed EA ## - wow, I'd forgot that! I remember there being a EA72 that I used to play on because it was the year I was born... lol That's crazy that I'd totally forgot those servers and never put it together with EA 117... jeesh