History of ORD membership

The Tard ranks are fairly exclusive, due more to the laziness and apathy of founding fathers than any perception of superiority; the fact is we'd rather play games than wrangle with a huge mob of members.
For most of our history, we've worked with a 'hard cap' of 20 Tards. It seemed a small enough number to manage itself without a lot of top-down directives and was also the size of a full CS server, which was aesthetically pleasing at the time.
Us being Tards and all, the 20 member limit has been more of a concept than a rigid boundary, like the border of India and Pakistan. People vanish for a while then reappear, some are LAN regulars who don't get on-line any more, some are sidelined by technical difficulty but show up when they can. And recently we've treated the cap like the 55 MPH speed limit, a silly restriction from a bygone era. As the ORD gaming diaspora expands the borders of our world, there's more room for growth. 20 people playing one game generates a lot more population density than 20 people playing ten games.

Of course, our gaming community has never been defined simply by who wears the ORD tag. All our servers across the years have attracted groups of regulars who share our basic gaming philosophy. From the old CS days when LUSH, MIF and the H&K Employees were a valued presence on South to now, with The Agency and -MAC- providing a solid base for the Black Pit of Lag, our regulars are our extended family. But for the sake of the historical record, here is an all-inclusive listing of 'official' members of the Old Retarded Dogs, more or less in the order of their appearance.

original LAN Tards

Glock, Gordo, Ivan, Gumbyman, Goatfoot, Badger 242, Tungsten, Sokkmonkey, JedTheRed, Pork Chop, Patric, Gimp
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This is the group of 'real world' friends who formed the core of ORD at LAN parties back dating back to 1999. All live or have lived here at Tard Central, and all have spent a lot of time together IRL in various combinations.

The First
Howdy

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Howdy was the first non-ORD to game on the Hauze the day it went up, and he was still there when it went down for the count. He also gets a special commendation for directing future Tards Von Demon, Deth & Bennett to the Hauze.

Early Adopters
Raven Hawke, Quitchabitch'n, Morphix, Woof, Wolverine, Never Trust a Monkey,
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Folk who showed up after Howdy but before everyone else. This group features our only two teen members, Quicha and Morph. Of this group, only Woof was active in a clan before joining ORD, and originally showed up on the server as [LUSH]Drunkard. We all thought Quitcha was 25 or so, but he was 17. Morph had burned out on D2 and was looking for a change. Never showed up on the Pit with a group of friends who banded together as MonkeyPoop, then stuck around and joined the collective. Rave was another very early regular, and one of the most persistently determined applicants. We signed him up to get some peace and quiet. :b Wolv was Rave's pal, and a fine (if utterly silent) addition to the miox.

South Era
Von Demon, Deth, Bennett, CyberWolf, Dango, Paco, Wicked, Sacrelicious
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Von, Deth and Bennett were Howdy's former pals from the @o@ clan. CW was well known to Glock and Ivan from one of their other favorite CS servers, 420 CounterStrike, and the CS scripting forum. Dango and Paco both joined the ranks from the H&K Employees. Sacrelicious is Tungsten's older brother and missed LAN Tard-dom by moving to SF before the advent of the LAN era. Wicked is the Howard Hughes of ORD- he lives in a secluded Vegas penthouse, emerging occasionally to issue cryptic technological pronouncements and ride around on his Ducati.

Modern Era
BravoTwoZero, Turtle, Leon, Snowfarmer, Alien Luv Chyld, Security, Vinnie Jones, Wolf, Stuff
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Tards who joined up after our break with CounterStrike. An odd time, while we found our footing after moving on from the game that brought us all together. All of our 'postmodern' additions to the clan are interested in gaming for it's own sake and aren't glued to any single platform. Security, Bravo & Vinnie were all veterans of the H&K Employees, ALC migrated over from MIF and Snowy joined from {bfd}, after finding Ivan and Gordo on the Urban Terror server. We found Leon after he linked our CS strategy guide on his homepage- we exchanged emails and he ended up being a regular on South, eventually joining up after the CS fall. Wolf wandered in from the snowy woods of c0a and Stuff joined up after the final demise of clan DEL.