Hi all, I was reminiscing about early TF2, and of course TF2 Lobby came up. TF2 Lobby, for those who don't know, was a 6v6/9v9 matchmaking website, which came out roughly 15 years ago, in around 2009/2010. It was TF2 Center's precursor (if that is still a thing).
Anyway. The state of web technology was quite different in 2009. To create a real-time interactive website with the functionality of TF2Lobby would have been a significant undertaking.
I'm really curious, does anyone know who created it? Their background? Were they a hobbyist, professional programmer, student? How were they so skilled? Was TF2Lobby just a side project? What was the tech stack, vanilla javascript or Jquery I'm assuming. What are they up to now?
If anyone knows, please say so in this thread or send me a teamfortress.tv DM, I will try to check. And if anyone has any other details about early technology in the TF2 community I'm very curious, this is the thread for it. There were a few other interesting things, like the #pugna bot, TF2 Center (obviously), some of the early item trading websites, server mods...
Hi all, I was reminiscing about early TF2, and of course TF2 Lobby came up. TF2 Lobby, for those who don't know, was a 6v6/9v9 matchmaking website, which came out roughly 15 years ago, in around 2009/2010. It was TF2 Center's precursor (if that is still a thing).
Anyway. The state of web technology was quite different in 2009. To create a real-time interactive website with the functionality of TF2Lobby would have been a significant undertaking.
I'm really curious, does anyone know who created it? Their background? Were they a hobbyist, professional programmer, student? How were they so skilled? Was TF2Lobby just a side project? What was the tech stack, vanilla javascript or Jquery I'm assuming. What are they up to now?
If anyone knows, please say so in this thread or send me a teamfortress.tv DM, I will try to check. And if anyone has any other details about early technology in the TF2 community I'm very curious, this is the thread for it. There were a few other interesting things, like the #pugna bot, TF2 Center (obviously), some of the early item trading websites, server mods...
https://comp.tf/wiki/TF2Lobby
https://www.teamfortress.tv/61875/horizontal-velocity-hud-speedometer This is still super impressive to me
FLOOR_MASTER the goat made tf2lobby (as in brimstone's link) and also was a part of the ancient TEAM ROOMBA griefing videos, what a goat.
FLOOR_MASTER the goat made tf2lobby (as in brimstone's link) and also was a part of the ancient [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ]TEAM ROOMBA griefing videos[/url], what a goat.
hlpugs.tf was a pug site around like 7 years ago 10x better than the 6-years-in-development RGL pug website
hlpugs.tf was a pug site around like 7 years ago 10x better than the 6-years-in-development RGL pug website
springrollsFLOOR_MASTER the goat made tf2lobby (as in brimstone's link) and also was a part of the ancient TEAM ROOMBA griefing videos, what a goat.
COUPON BUG DOT COM?!?!? I LOVE COUPON BUG DOT COM !!!1!1!
https://youtu.be/qxgcC0bIcpA?si=ZMMlPAHyhA36QYmK
[quote=springrolls]FLOOR_MASTER the goat made tf2lobby (as in brimstone's link) and also was a part of the ancient [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ]TEAM ROOMBA griefing videos[/url], what a goat.[/quote]
COUPON BUG DOT COM?!?!? I LOVE COUPON BUG DOT COM !!!1!1!
[youtube]https://youtu.be/qxgcC0bIcpA?si=ZMMlPAHyhA36QYmK[/youtube]
i played on tf2lobby and it was indeed a ground breaking change from pugging on IRC, sadly I don't remember the stack
I remember tho that this site has this "seized by USA something" replacement page when someone does some illegal activity in the web like FTX being a scam recently and that's how this site died basically
tf2center is written in java (cannot disclose what version) if that helps
ETF2L is written in php with ETF2L API v1 being written in Perl
also from early stuff serveme.tf is still up and it's written in Ruby
i played on tf2lobby and it was indeed a ground breaking change from pugging on IRC, sadly I don't remember the stack
I remember tho that this site has this "seized by USA something" replacement page when someone does some illegal activity in the web like FTX being a scam recently and that's how this site died basically
tf2center is written in java (cannot disclose what version) if that helps
ETF2L is written in php with ETF2L API v1 being written in Perl
also from early stuff serveme.tf is still up and it's written in Ruby
suprai played on tf2lobby and it was indeed a ground breaking change from pugging on IRC, sadly I don't remember the stack
I remember tho that this site has this "seized by USA something" replacement page when someone does some illegal activity in the web like FTX being a scam recently and that's how this site died basically
tf2center is written in java (cannot disclose what version) if that helps
ETF2L is written in php with ETF2L API v1 being written in Perl
also from early stuff serveme.tf is still up and it's written in Ruby
https://comp.tf/wiki/TF2Lobby
[quote=supra]i played on tf2lobby and it was indeed a ground breaking change from pugging on IRC, sadly I don't remember the stack
I remember tho that this site has this "seized by USA something" replacement page when someone does some illegal activity in the web like FTX being a scam recently and that's how this site died basically
tf2center is written in java (cannot disclose what version) if that helps
ETF2L is written in php with ETF2L API v1 being written in Perl
also from early stuff serveme.tf is still up and it's written in Ruby[/quote]
https://comp.tf/wiki/TF2Lobby
i think that enigma creating tftv itself is a pretty dope technical achievement
i think that enigma creating tftv itself is a pretty dope technical achievement
i didnt stop using chris' config until 2022
i didnt stop using chris' config until 2022