Oooo this will be fun
So I joined eGO back in the INS Mod days due to the community-like feel of the org. I liked the organized events, administrative hierarchy and how servers were ran. Once the INS mod disappeared, I switched over to the CS:S division. Highschool was absolutely my favorite map with countless hours racked up on that server (and Italy!) alone.
Over the years, I started branching out to different things. I joined the Newsletter team and wrote front-page articles for a while, I joined the member services team and became a dedicated-applications processor and I played some DoD:S, BF4 and Minecraft with eGO. I was active for a solid ~6 years straight (until 2016) before deploying to Iraq. When I came back, I was active for a brief period in 2017 then basically disappeared again as I bought a house, met my wife, moved to a new city, sold the old house, moved again, bought another house.......
Now that thing's are settled, I am looking to get back into the community and join in on events, drop into the CSGO servers from time-to-time and maybe even pickup some GTA FiveM. Between raising my daughter, keeping the wife happy, working full time and attending university full time, I don't have too much free time these days.
I'll have to dig through my Steam profile to see if I can find any memories from the past. I remember names such as Drew, Wize, Whoflungpooatwho, Christy, ProCombat (RIP), RogueOps, NMSniper, Exoh... the list goes on. I remember the old Zombie Escape server in CS:S which I believe was short lived, but fun. I also remember Ventrillo, Teamspeak, the shoutbox and casino cash.
Overall, I'm glad I discovered this community 13 years ago and I'm even more glad that I remembered my password to this account.