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correct nav template added to bottom

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2023-11-09T12:56:05Z

changed the nav template as recommended

Eggmceye: /* January 23, 2008 */ fixed link

2023-11-09T11:35:05Z

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Eggmceye at 02:18, 3 April 2021

2021-04-03T02:18:14Z

Eggmceye: updated euo history

2008-02-08T02:51:20Z

updated euo history

Eggmceye: /* 1999-2000 */

2007-06-03T23:38:10Z

1999-2000

Kybare: EUO dev stops

2006-02-08T02:04:43Z

EUO dev stops

Kybare: Added link to news page.

2006-01-05T15:55:23Z

Added link to news page.

Kybare: Added change to PD server

2005-12-21T15:03:51Z

Added change to PD server

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 ===Mid 1989===
-Max Breedon (aka eggmceye), 14 years old, gets his hands on a copy of Ultima 5 for Commodore 64 from a friend at school, and immediatlely falls in love with the box, the map & the 8 sides of 5.25" floppy disk.
+Max Breedon (aka eggmceye), 14 years old, gets his hands on a copy of Ultima 5 for Commodore 64 from a friend at school, and immediately falls in love with the box, the map & the 8 sides of 5.25" floppy disk.
 ===Mid 1992===
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 ===July 29, 1998 (approx)===
-Warcraft 2 clan buddy and good-ol-boy Astro ([http://members.optushome.com.au/amaxwell/ Adam Maxwell]) asks Egg if he can write him a dice rolling progam for DnD. Egg gets ideas and the concept of a  4 player dungeon crawler is born.
+Warcraft 2 clan buddy and good-ol-boy Astro ([http://members.optushome.com.au/amaxwell/ Adam Maxwell]) asks Egg if he can write him a dice rolling program for DnD. Egg gets ideas and the concept of a 4 player dungeon crawler is born.
 ===July 30, 1998===
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 ===September 1998===
-It's hard to pin down exactly when, but it was decided to use allegro (then a graphics library for linux) for a tile based Balrog at around this time. An early version of [http://moongates.com Joshua Steele's] Ultima 4 tileset was used, and the idea to make Balrog an Ultima inspired multiplayer game was born.
+It's hard to pin down exactly when, but it was decided to use Allegro (then a graphics library for linux) for a tile based Balrog at around this time. An early version of [http://moongates.com Joshua Steele's] Ultima 4 tileset was used, and the idea to make Balrog an Ultima inspired multiplayer game was born.
 It is interesting to note that for quite a while, possibly a couple of years (not that Balrog was being worked on a lot in these early days), Ncurses support was retained (a makefile option). It was finally ditched once it became a burden.
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 ===July 2002===
-Egg, a member of [http://forums.somethingawful.com Something Awful Forums], posts a thread asking if there would be any interest in a multiplayer Ultima 5 (titled something like ''Bigger than morrowind or Everquest, it's Egg's Ultima 5, online''). The crowd response was unexpected and very encouraging, and a tentative date about a week into the future was set to have a working Alpha online.
+Egg, a member of [http://forums.somethingawful.com Something Awful Forums], posts a thread asking if there would be any interest in a multiplayer Ultima 5 (titled something like ''Bigger than Morrowind or Everquest, it's Egg's Ultima 5, online''). The crowd response was unexpected and very encouraging, and a tentative date about a week into the future was set to have a working Alpha online.
 In this time, a bit of work would have went mainly into getting the server stable, and running more like a persistent world (eg U0), rather than an instance of one (Diablo). If the author remembers rightly, a chat system was frantically added in these last few days, among other things.
 ===July 10, 2002===
-The alpha is complete, and the annoucement is made. SA forum members immediately start connecting in the half dozens. It's estimated that most of those who tried to connect in these first days couldn't connect properly due to all sorts of shitty network code and other bugs and probably never tried to connect again.
+The alpha is complete, and the announcement is made. SA forum members immediately start connecting in the half dozens. It's estimated that most of those who tried to connect in these first days couldn't connect properly due to all sorts of shitty network code and other bugs and probably never tried to connect again.
 The first player's name was 'fuck' - thanks SA. It was also this day that Oceanman was created, named after a Ween song. The Oceanman character that exists on the current version now is the exact same character (while ''eggmceye'' may have actually been recreated), thus making Oceanman the oldest character on EUO, even if it is the creator/author's own avatar.
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 ===April 23, 2003===
 Co-incidentally (within 20 days of EUO becoming live again), Egg finally gets a reply from Ultima Reconstruction: EUO is listed and a steady flow of Ultima enthusiasts try out EUO.
 ===June 10, 2003===
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 ===August 11, 2003===
-[http://swut.net/euo/macro.htm MACRODAEMON] logs on for the first time; created purely to kill AFK macroers in a time of great cost-of-bandwidth conciousness. MACRO soon evolves into ''the retarded cousin'' and spends most of his time being drunk or telling stupid jokes incorrectly.
+[http://swut.net/euo/macro.htm MACRODAEMON] logs on for the first time; created purely to kill AFK macroers in a time of great cost-of-bandwidth conciousness. MACRO soon evolves into ''the mentally challenged cousin'' and spends most of his time being drunk or telling stupid jokes incorrectly.
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 ===February 6, 2006===
-Work officially ends on EUO.  Click [http://forums.swut.net/viewtopic.php?p=38352#38352 here] for the official post.
+Work officially ends on EUO.  Click [http://forums.swut.net/viewtopic.php?p=38352#38352 here] for the official post. It never really ended of course.
 * More [http://forums.swut.net/viewtopic.php?t=2026 EUO nostalgia] here.
 * More [http://swut.net/euo/news.html eventful EUO dates] here.

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 ===1999-2000===
-Early draft of the Balrog manual completed. Balrog renamed to Egg's Ultima Online. Work extremely slow, usually in spurts of a couple of weeks between months off. Overall frustration with linux as a development platform slows progress.
+Early draft of the Balrog manual completed. Balrog renamed to EUO. Work extremely slow, usually in spurts of a couple of weeks between months off. Overall frustration with linux as a development platform slows progress.
 ===November 2000===

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 This Wiki manual becomes active.
-===December 17,2005===
+===December 17, 2005===
 The PD server begins to use the same maps as the regular server.
 * More [http://forums.swut.net/viewtopic.php?t=2026 EUO nostalgia] here.
 * More [http://swut.net/euo/news.html eventful EUO dates] here.

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