Quake 2 and especially the Jailbreak mod were my first big foray into online multiplayer gaming. I was in two clans, one named after the band 311 (had no idea what it even was when they invited me to join because I hung out on their server which had a decent ping), and then later a clan named Atomic Slug Slingers ("ASS", haha, get it?).

It's really too bad that the old ways of independent servers and mods went the way of the dodo. Just the other day for no reason at all I found myself repeating the old guttural "Welcome to GameSpy" voice intro to myself.