History of Geeksoft

Geeksoft

It was 1995 when Brian Brinegar and Dan May wrote Geeksoft's first piece of software, "V-Goss," short for Virtual Geek Operating System. This software basically did... nothing. But hey, you've got to start somewhere! From there we developed some few utilities for the Texas Instruments line of graphing calculators. It wasn't until 1996 that Geeksoft would move in the direction of computer entertainment. Past Geeksoft member Bobby Arnold teamed with Brian Brinegar to begin work on Astro Adventures . a tile based role-playing game which has yet to be completed.

In the Fall of 1997, the early Geeksoft crew of Dan May, Brian Brinegar, and Bobby Arnold enrolled at Purdue University. November 1st 1997 saw the release of Geeksoft's first full-length game, "Mortal Breakout." The fun went online in 1998 with Geek Virtual Wrestling (G.V.W.) - a one of a kind automated fantasy wrestling league. On March 17th 1998 the Zeus E-Fed Management System was released to the public with an amazing 300 downloads in the first week! With that kind of popularity work began almost instantly on Zeus 2.0 which became available on September 14th 1998. But people wanted more, Zeus 2.0 wasn't the huge step over Zeus 1.0 everyone expected. So what does Geeksoft do? Start from scratch with Zeus 3.0 released on March 10th 1999. That release saw 20,000 downloads in 2 days!

After Zeus 3.0 Geeksoft laid low for a few months and then on 9-9-99 at 9 pm (EST) Geeksoft.net was born! Complete with Message Boards, Chat, G.V.W., Zeus Gimmicks, everything people could ever want. G.V.W. became immensely popular reaching nearly 1,000 members in under one week. Enter D.C. Hamilton. D.C. replaced Bobby Arnold as the third member of Geeksoft. He would lead the charge to create G-Fed, a system that allowed for multiple G.V.W. like leagues. October 20th 1999 G-Fed opened fifty leagues to the public. These fifty leagues were claimed in under one minute.

Geeksoft.net met some trouble in early 2000 when we were forced to switch servers because of a shortage of disk space. After nearly a month of downtime the site was reopened with G-Fed updates, and Dan May's brainchild Geeksoft Interactive. G.In. provided a single sign-on for all Geeksoft services.

Zeus Pro was released April 17th 2000 and contained major enhancements over 3.0. In the fall of 2000, Geeksoft.net concept 2.0 was introduced, finally creating the online community that was originally envisioned. G.In. was now a complete success, and offered our users comparable feature to other user-operated internet sites. With the onslaught of Concept 2.0, came the internet hit G-Fed 2.0, which was completely integrated with the rest of the Geeksoft website. G-Fed was not a stand-alone program anymore - it was now a seamless part of the Geeksoft experience.

A fire ravaged Geeksoft Headquarters in early winter of 2001, but Geeksoft was able to recover within a few weeks to ride the success of G-Fed 2.0. Geeksoft then showed its commitment to the e-wrestling community, releasing G-Fed 1.0 as an open source project, thus building more competition to its own brand, forcing Geeksoft and everyone to work harder to stand at the forefront of this niche group of internet users.

Unfortunately the success of G-Fed would lead to its demise. Geeksoft had funded the operation of G-Fed through support from 3rd party advertisers. After the dot-com bust advertisers slowly began cutting payments and eventually withdrew from the market. Unable to afford hosting Geeksoft was forced to shut down in early 2002.

For most of 2003 - 2005 the Geeksoft.net website contained only the famous GS logo as if it were a tombstone marking the place where Geeksoft once stood. Then, in late 2005 something happend, the logo changed and screenshots began appearing. Without any prompting hundreds of people began coming the website watching as it evolved. A mysterious countdown began ticking.. and as it reached zero on December 1st 2005, ten years after the creation of Geeksoft, the Geeksoft web site was relaunched. Several months later, on August 19th, 2006 G-Fed 3.0 was born.

In May 2007 Geeksoft launched it's first separate web property, ClaimYourDay.com. ClaimYourDay.com is the worlds first social calendaring community.

On August 19th, 2007 Geeksoft went through a major rebranding effort, splitting the successfull G-Fed 3.0 into a stand alone site GFedWrestling.com and redesigning Geeksoft.net as hub for all future products.

Timeline

  • 01-27-1998 Geek Virtual Wrestling Opens
  • 02-20-1998 Zeus Announced
  • 03-16-1998 Zeus 0.2 beta Released
  • 04-08-1998 Zeus 1.0 Released
  • 09-17-1998 Zeus 2.0 Released
  • 03-10-1999 Zeus 3.0 Released
  • 04-09-1999 Zeus Pro Beta Released
  • 09-10-1999 Geeksoft.net Opens
  • 09-29-1999 G-Fed 1.0 Opens to the Public
  • 04-05-2000 Zeus Pro 4.0.5 Released
  • 12-01-2000 G-Fed 2.0 Released
  • 04-01-2001 G-Fed 1.0 Source Code Released
  • 12-01-2005 Geeksoft.net Concept 5.0 opens
  • 07-01-2006 G-Fed 3.0 Closed Beta
  • 07-09-2006 G-Fed 3.0 Expanded Beta
  • 07-18-2006 Geeksoft LLC Officially Organized
  • 08-19-2006 G-Fed 3.0 Released
  • 05-10-2007 ClaimYourDay.com Beta
  • 08-19-2007 GFedWrestling.com Released and Geeksoft.net Concept 6.0 opens