![]() ![]() I got paid $24,000 a year to write about Quake 2. Around '98, GameSpy said, "Do you want to run PlanetQuake?" So I said, "Yeah, OK," and moved to Orange County. In my free time I would play a lot of Quake 2 and write about Quake 2. Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, founder of Something Awful ( I dropped out of school my junior year because I hated engineering and took a job being a systems administrator for the Vanderbilt Vision and Research Center. ![]() ![]() This is the story of Something Awful, as told by the people who made it what it was. It was also the worst: insular, exclusionary and, at times, vicious. It was the best of its day: independent, original, and fiercely creative. ![]() Experienced travelers in the internet's darker corners. Kyanka's dark, esoteric humor proved popular among a certain set-typically young, typically male, often though not always left-leaning. He was, from the start, a prophet of doom. What set Kyanka's site apart was its cynicism-about everything, but particularly about the role the internet would play in a changing society. It was a goulash of parodies of Silicon Valley groupthink and internet dumpster diving. At first, Something Awful was what we would think of as a blog, though that term wouldn't enter common parlance for a while, yet. ![]()
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