Gamerdads Live a brief history

*This article is to coincide with xenocidic’s piece on the history of the Gamerdads as a group.
See the link on the sidepanel for his post and personal blog.



Gamerdads Live started out as an afterthought from the xbox.com Gamerdads thread. Every so often a new dad would pop in and say to us, "hey I like the group. Do we have a website?" The simple answer was "No, I’m afraid we don’t." One day work was really slow so I took half an hour and set up a simple free website. Attached to that simple free website was a simple free forum, so in essence in May, 2007 Gamerdads Live was born.

So with me manning the fort I took the reigns of the Forum etc. and waited until a few people showed up then left again until I was manning the place virtually for myself. Long months passed with only a fleeting glance at the site but still keeping it going hence it was free, we started having a second regular member by the name of ethanjude and the 2 of us had our own discussion board which was slowly gaining members.




December came around and we had approximately 10 regular(ish) members, and I made a comment about maybe we could reach 1000 posts by the end of the year. We most definetly exceeded that. Then the biggie happened. Mo Moss had a gamer spotlight done highlighting the Gamerdads.
MO MOSS Gamer spotlight

More and more members joined. Shortly after that he was the first official spotlight featured on inside xbox in North America from the XBOX dashboard. Again, we had more and more members join. As you can probably tell we smashed that 1000 post target by some considerable margin.

Finally I decided enough was enough. The free website provider was doing my head in with various things they were doing. (Why yes, I do want a massive bar covering up my content) so in January I switched over to proper hosting and hence was back in control of what could and could not be seen.

March swung around and I decided to take the plunge and opened up a new forum (causing great confusion over sign up etc.) which we all now know and love as GDL.
So after 1 month of the “New” forums being up we arrive at where we are today same quantity of posts as we had for all of the last forum, we have pod casts going up (thanks Nien and ethanjude). We have this blog (thanks LA13). We host the DaDS Clan (thanks Birdman), we are holding a Madden league (thanks to CCJ), a HALO 3 Tournament (thanks again, Nien), as well as Fantasy Sports (thanks JD Buck).

I for one am proud to belong to this fine community and look forward to where it will take us in the future. Here is to being a Dad and a Gamer and a part of GamerDads Live.

* Translated from heavy Scotish to English by ethanjude. WINK.