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History of Meta Construct
Garry's Mod on Steam
Valve finally convinced Garry to put his mod into Steam.
November 29, 2006
Fluctuations
People come and go, the server was mainly only a build server with various addons and no real community.
January 1, 2008
Big Bang
Suddenly there was a GMod server, which started expanding. Earliest records point to this year.
January 2, 2008
CapsAdmin
CapsAdmin joined the ride and brought with him some of his addons developed with other GMod old-timers. Lots of coding happened.
January 1, 2009
Meta Construct - the beginning
Until now the server had gone by various names until the server started to be referred to as Meta Construct, referring to the fact that the server was not only about building props, but building the tools for building.
January 2, 2009
ZMod
First real mini-game by a Metastruct-taught developer, Mare.
January 3, 2009
srvaddons SVN - era of collaboration
The repository that should have never been had its first commit.
January 1, 2010
More developers
More passerby gamer-coders joined the server and coded a little.
January 2, 2010
Metastruct Map
The server shifts to the Metastruct map, which was built from ground up to really not be anything but a build with non build area fun stuff, such as a bar and a theater and whatever else.
January 3, 2010
TELEVATORS!
July 1, 2010
Costumes
Player Appearance Customizer lifts its head.
July 2, 2010
FIFA World Cup - Vuvuzela madness
July 3, 2010
Metastruct Map Version 2
Old map hit a dead end or something and was replaced with a new rewrite from ground, borrowing from half life 2 example vmfs. Have you noticed any familiar features on the lobby compared to starting level of HL2?
October 1, 2010
Meta Construct expands
Second server!
October 2, 2010
PAC3
Third rewrite of PAC.
January 1, 2011
Chatbox
Most wanted by pirates.
May 15, 2011
aowl
Previously called nero before it landed here.
August 24, 2011
ChatHUD
Who knew there would be such spamming?
October 1, 2011
Webchat
Now you can get your chatsound spam fix on the go, by ukgamer and Python1320.
January 24, 2012
Second Garry visit
<Garry> You guys are crazy WTF
June 20, 2012
Tenri joins
Young minge comes in and breaks stuff with hassle. Including SVNs.
June 20, 2012
Demoman screens
Meta Construct expands to demoscenes.
October 23, 2012
Garry's Mod 13
Meta Construct was one of the first servers to survive the Garry's Mod 13 tsunami.
October 23, 2012
PotcFdk joins
By CapsAdmin's judgement, at 3am GMT "I even remember where I stood."
October 24, 2012
Shell32 hosts server 3
I can't remember how long it lasted (a few weeks?).
January 1, 2013
Tremble
Second real mini-game by Freezebug unknown for many.
May 14, 2013
Achievements
Badges and MetaWorks followed.
July 8, 2013
Metastruct Security Agency formed
[REDACTED]
August 7, 2013
Suchipi joins
No one notices for 5 months until PAC3 gets mystery updates.
December 7, 2013
Christmas Event
Party hats for lobby NPCs, christmas trees, ...
December 7, 2013
Server #3
Donated by 'our benefactor', soon to replace server #1.
April 1, 2014
April Fools' Day Event
Achievement for having achievements, Python hired by Valve. No, the bluescreen crashes were not part of the day.
April 1, 2014
Suchipi begins adding stuff to PAC3
Proxy sgn() function, custom animation part, animation editor tweaks, fov override, lions, tigers, bears, oh my!
April 10, 2014
Contact lost with CapsAdmin
Last confirmed contact happened around midnight GMT+0
April 17, 2014
Custom models experiment for PAC begins
Whole player models can now theoretically be used.
July 15, 2014
Server #1 takes last breath
After threats spanning years about decomissioning the server decomissions itself presumably through hard disk death.
July 18, 2014
Server #2 decommission confirmed
Server #2 will be disabled "soon".
August 6, 2014
The roleplay is a lie
Deathmatch related features added to RP area by Mare & Tenrys.
August 6, 2014
#BringBackCapsAdmin
CapsAdmin has left Metastruct, most want him back, a new movement has began. CapsAdmin thinks it is best he does not come back.
August 15, 2014
DDoS
Someone hates Metastruct, please tweet us why.
August 20, 2014
DDoS
DDoS exceeds 12Gbps. Still no idea why.
December 10, 2014
Metastruct Website Redesign
ukgamer redesigns the website based on some logo KeyLimePie sent him.
December 22, 2014
Month of resignations
Lapin has left the building. PAC is to be blamed
December 23, 2014
Christmas!
Nothing much happened, hats on NPC and Candy bags.
December 25, 2014
Server #2
Added and hosted by ettech.net. (In the USA!)
January 7, 2015
Metastruct IRC Server
Hosted by Threekelvin, coded and managed by Techbot and PotcFdk.
January 12, 2015
Server #5
One server goes, another one surfaces.
March 7, 2015
Goodbye, Server #2
It "wasn't worth the power it was consuming". It was definitely worth the try.
March 30, 2015
2016 New Entries
Zeni, EgrOnWire, Ghosty and Skooch join the development team.
January 1, 2016
Metastruct Discord Server
March 30, 2016
2017 New Entries
Swadical, Arena, Sera, Collision02, Earu and Datamats join the development team. Noiwex is given a second chance.
January 1, 2017
Server #9 aka. #2
Known as #9 for a few days (thanks to Vienvanva) until renamed to #2.
May 6, 2017
2017 Departures
Noiwex, Collision02 and EgrOnWire leave the development team due to internal issues.
December 31, 2017
Administrative Votes
A new type of discussion is brought to the developer team to allow for faster and more concise decisions.
April 19, 2018
GitLab
Although GitHub was already being used, GitLab was chosen as the new home for all legacy repositories from Subversion.
August 31, 2018
2018 New Entries
Twentysix, Paul, Wicopee, Homonovus and Some_Beach join the development team. EgrOnWire leaves.
September 30, 2018
Knife minigame
Say !knife to play it. Blatantly copied from all other games that have a similar feature.
October 31, 2018
A Decade
Meta Construct community and servers still running after a decade!
January 1, 2019
2019 Departures
Cyro and Some_Beach leave the development team.
December 30, 2019