History Lesson

[Covert Gunman]

Alright so I think it's time for somewhat of a history lesson concerning CoDz from my point of view. This is something that I posted in Ehjookayted's thread about the inner workings and behind the scenes stuff for the forums, but I figured it was worthy enough for everyone to see it. Anyway, enjoy.

Alright, well I suppose I should start from the beginning. Zombies was born in late 2008 with the release of World at War, but it really wasn't until early 2009 when the storyline began. It started out with the release of Veruckt and Shi No Numa and most discussion concerning the storyline took place in numerous places, but one of the more dominant places was the Xbox forums. Here's a link back to that original thread, but due to changes to the Xbox forums, the link no longer works. I don't know where the thread would be now, or if it even still exists. Anyway, last I knew, that thread had over 5,000 views and 8 pages full of theories and explanations for some of the mysteries of Veruckt and Shi No Numa. Progress was then continued on the Aggregame forums in June of 2009 by carbonfibah. This is where I came into play. I spent a lot of time reading through all of the theories and speculations that had been posted both in the Xbox thread and also on the Aggregame forums. I then began to do research and speculation of my own. I put out some of the ideas that I had in the AG forums and carbon gave input on them.

It wasn't until several days later on June 19, 2009 that the first official CoDz site was born. It was built on a free hosting service and so the quality was very poor. We had very little control over what could be put on the site. I won't link to the site because it no longer exists anymore and the link redirects to some other random site. The site had been under construction for several months and that was when it was finally released. The first admins were carbonfibah (of course) and Julez. Most of you probably won't remember Julez because she was only involved in the very early beginnings of the old site. I just have to say this though, she was an absolutely amazing person to hang out with and she brought a lot of love and unity to the forums at the time. Anyway, I started out as just a regular user on the forums, then within several days of joining I was made a Zombie Mod, which is a step below a Global Mod, and then shortly after I was made a full Global Mod, along with another good friend addor, who also isn't a member of the site anymore. He had a bit of a falling out with carbon, but I won't go into details with that. We ended up with a staff of 10 members which consisted of the following: carbonfibah, MINUS Stl, YoungMaxwell, firevice, shri046, XxCrazzyxX (XxCrazzyGuy92xX at the time), Ibanez, Niho (NihonjinRikugun at the time), lissa110, and myself.

We continued to use that site for about 10 months where we had accrued close to 4,000 members and over 13,000 posts. Close to the end of the site's life span we spent several months working hard on a new project that would allow us to expand and improve the site even further. We began work on a brand new site built from the ground up that would be larger and better than it's predecessor. Carbon gave full access to the new site to the staff about halfway through March of 2010. He also gave access to Zombie Cakes, who you should all know as being a very talented artist, along with MaTtKs and CHEFS, who, at the time, had been two of the Call of Duty VIP's. MaTtKs now works at Treyarch as the Multiplayer Production Coordinator and CHEFS currently works at THQ working on Darksiders 2 and other games, and for a while he was the Community Manager for Homefront.

The new site, which is the one we're on now, opened to the public on April 1, 2010 and that was when I became the Community Manager for the site. Becoming the CM was something that was a late birthday present to me from carbon. We've made numerous changes to the site since that time and we've also grown a lot since then. We now have over 9,000 (yes, I know) members. There have been over 141,000 posts made on the forum in 13,000 unique topics. Our staff now consists of 24 members, some not active, but they're still included.

Now let's see, Mods and Dwellers are chosen on an individualistic basis, meaning that we carefully think and debate about why someone should be a part of those groups. At one point, we had a competition on the old forums to see who would be chosen to become new Mods and that is where several of our Mods have originated from. We have also done polls within our own private forums in order to pick out possible candidates for Modship.

Concerning how both Alpha and I were made Admins, it was based on a situation that carbon was in at the time. I don't know if I have the authority to say what it is that allowed him to make the decision to make us Admins, so I'll just leave it be and hope that carbon will at some point explain and make it publicly known.

Anyway, I hope that that will answer many of your questions, and if you have questions about specific things, please feel free to ask them.

[Ehjookayted]

Thanks again for posting this. Let's all sit around the Mystery Box and listen to this old guy. ;)

[Strwrsbob]

CoDz is a great site, has always been a tight community, from The WAW SNN days, to GK6, to Black Ops, CoDz has always stuck together through thick and thin. Some great people have left, and some great people have come. It's great to be a apart of this truly unique site and I can't wait to see what 2012 has planned!

(I wish I could still find some of the old playdate footage, some great moments there)

[perfectlemonade]

Thanks so much for posting this! Lots of lingering questions I've had have been answered with this. :)

[killallzombies]

if you were to answer all of my Q's,you'd be taking awhile

[ZombieOfTheDead]

Ah... brings me back to fond memories of reading this forum like 1/2 of the summer back when SNN came out... But now I know the earlier history, that's awesome.

[Jolteon]

Some interesting stuff... I began to follow the forums not long after Der Riese came out and joined not long after that (under a different name), although I didnt post much at all... But unfortunately with MW2, and its lack of zombies, I lost interest in the forum, and in turn lost the account name from my memory... And so, with the release of Black Ops, and the return of zombies, Dark Jolteon was born!

CoDz has been a gift to us all, and without it, I would have had many an evening without anything to do, and nothing to interest me. Without CoDz I would never have met the amazing people, the old and the new, that now make CoDz what it is!

Basically what I am trying to say is Thank You CoDz! And of course Thank You Carbon!

-Jolteon

[killallzombies]

CoDz has been a gift to us all, and without it, I would have had many an evening without anything to do, and nothing to interest me. Without CoDz I would never have met the amazing people, the old and the new, that now make CoDz what it is!

Basically what I am trying to say is Thank You CoDz! And of course Thank You Carbon!

same here

it always seems like i need to give ppl brains right after i give brains to someone else

[Jolteon]

CoDz has been a gift to us all, and without it, I would have had many an evening without anything to do, and nothing to interest me. Without CoDz I would never have met the amazing people, the old and the new, that now make CoDz what it is!

Basically what I am trying to say is Thank You CoDz! And of course Thank You Carbon!

same here

it always seems like i need to give ppl brains right after i give brains to someone else

Hahaha I now what you mean But seriously, no one need worry about giving me brains, I'm not here to try and get the most brains or just be a brain horder, i'm here for the zombies experience, and to help others get the most out of zombies...

-Jolteon