Hello all!

[LochnarITB]

Freshman Diablo factors greatly into D1 history.

I am glad so many found (and still do?) the site useful. I wanted to give back to the game I loved so much and to the people that had made it a community in its own right.

Nice to meet a golden oldie!

You don't know just how well that title applies! ;)

There really isn't a lot to tell. I think it was at least a year after Diablo came out that it came to be. I followed the old DSF (Diablo Strategy Forum) daily for quite some time but never really felt I had much to contribute so I fit the title Lurker quite well. There were always a similar set of questions that were being asked and I and others had grabbed the best responses to them to cut and paste as replies. This worked OK but people started suggesting that Blizzard include a link at the top of the page to a FAQ of these responses. Blizzard never bit on the idea.

About that time, I had decided that I wanted my own site to play around on (sort of like Bolty's reason for the creation of what we know as The Lurker Lounge - although I never did much with mine unlike Bolty). I was a computer jack-of-all-trades (programming, network/hardware/database setup and administration) at a small insurance administrator. I had a project for a small call center with an unreal deadline for going live. In a message to the client's IT person I expressed some frustration by closing with the name of my fictional software company - AreWeHavingFunYet Software, Inc. That name stuck with me, therefore the URL for my site.

Because I wanted to actually have something real to host, I volunteered to host Diablo 101 - the name it started with. I soon found out that name existed so it was changed to Freshman Diablo. I first contacted Armin to ask his permission to use his posts as he had several very good ones. As people started using it, they would suggest other posts, both old and new, as suitable for inclusion. A few people even wrote guides with the express purpose of being hosted on the site. Luckily, I only had to turn down one or two - not a fun thing to do. Eventually Freshman Diablo became the defacto FAQ for the DSF. I even found that several sites took postings that I had set up and posted them as their own. One even went so far as to copy the whole site and put their own name on it. :blink: I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

That's about it. Guess I had more to say about it than I thought, ramblings of a Golden Oldie hitting the switch of the wayback machine.

Lochnar[ITB]
http://www.arewehavingfunyet.com/diablo/diablo.shtml