Where’d -99 come from?

negative99I have been asked how this website (the one you’re reading) got its name… so sit right back and you’ll hear a tale. Way back in the year 1997 I was gaming online with some Navy buddies of mine. Quake 2 had just come out and we hopped onto a server that had a paintball modification applied. Well, with lack of knowledge of these new paintball rules our scores quickly degraded to -99 (the lowest possible). When we formed a clan a short while later, we became Clan Negative 99. I made the homepage… which soon doubled as my personal page… which eventually became totally my personal page when we ceased clan activities. I was only hosted by my measly Road Runner personal webspace until very recently when I actually registered the domain name you currently see and got myself a real host. So there you go…

While delving into some old files recently I scrounged up this pic I took during some of my personal practice time apart from “official” clan matches. I was pleased to see that I had done quite well.

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  1. Posted December 17, 2005 at 12:11 am | Permalink

    Wow, you so went to RPI.

  2. paintballing ireland
    Posted December 30, 2009 at 9:38 am | Permalink

    Do you still go paintballing?

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