The story behind liquid?

On February 06 2009 03:32 cgrinker wrote:
TL was created in response to a malaria outbreak caused by Bill Gates releasing mosquitoes at a anti malaria event. In order to compensate for the lost knowledge caused by the necessity for quarantine the computer elite TL serves as the real world's version of Issac Asimov's Foundation, a centralized repository of compy knowledge.


Only misinformation in this thread.

On February 06 2009 03:22 Osmoses wrote:
Shortly after the website was launched, the admins were beset upon by Velociraptors. Through the use of wit and sheer awesome dexterity, they managed to trap every single one inside freezers, and there they remain until this day,

On February 06 2009 03:53 freelander wrote:
only mensrea knows the answer

who knows where he is

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:37 L wrote:
Oh wow, if you do the loop 3 times you actually get to the secret.

Well played, Hot bid. Well played.

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 06:50 Raithed wrote:
LOL JESUS CHRIST HOTBID
it never stops.

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:19 Chill wrote:
on top of clicking all those, i was checking each one for rickrolls -_-

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

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On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 09:30 MeriaDoKk wrote:


Okay, that was great xD

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 07:30 CharlieMurphy wrote:



TROLL DERAIL>>>>>>>

On February 06 2009 05:19 Chill wrote:
on top of clicking all those, i was checking each one for rickrolls -_-

On February 06 2009 07:13 Twisted wrote:
I did click it all! I wanted to know where it would end up

Anyway:

Liquid was originally (and still is somewhat) a Starcraft clan started by Nazgul, Meat, Drone and maybe a few more (Spy, Oaral come to mind) in 2000 or so if memory serves me correctly. They had a really simple website before this one and it had a small following (I checked it sometimes for the simple forum they had and for Eri's hilarious rants). After this they decided to create a new website and that's this website. It pretty much became this website but very plain without all the features you have now. A bunch of people joined because it ha(s)(d) a nice layout, replay uploading etc.

At the start they started covering Korean leagues with the help of Mensrea and Waxangel and from there on Teamliquid was the best non-Korean news portal for Korean leagues and it has expanded ever since to grow to what it is today.

In 2003~2004 poker became interesting for Starcraft players and there were a bunch of people that started to play poker. Considering these starcraft players didn't have a poker community to discuss their hands or strategy, they used Teamliquid to talk poker. Nazgul and Meat added some affiliates so they could maybe earn some money on people signing up through their links and seeing a golden business opportunity at the start of the hype, they created Liquidpoker. Backed by Teamliquid's community, a lot of people flocked to Liquidpoker and started posting about poker there which lead to Liquidpoker's success in poker affiliating by people signing up through their deals with leading pokersites like Partypoker. That's also the reason that whenever poker is mentioned in the forums here, they automatically link to Liquidpoker which leads more people to Liquidpoker to try out poker .

That's pretty much everything about it.

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 10:35 Kunty wrote:
рoker

i hold the secret to hyperlink free рoker

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 10:35 Kunty wrote:
рoker

i hold the secret to hyperlink free рoker

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:19 Chill wrote:
on top of clicking all those, i was checking each one for rickrolls -_-

On February 06 2009 04:28 LosingID8 wrote:
there's an official history in the super secret staff forum but we aren't allowed to tell anyone what it is.

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 19:13 Rekrul wrote:
LMAO i just got raped by secret omg : [

On February 06 2009 22:59 jjun212 wrote:
...

is there an end to the secret...? omg wtf

On February 06 2009 23:07 lololol wrote:
Yes, the end is at the same place where it begins.

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 23:24 jjun212 wrote:


fuck just tell me the answer

all this philosophical shit is lame

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 19:13 Rekrul wrote:
LMAO i just got raped by secret omg : [

On February 07 2009 09:29 Zoler wrote:


+1 =(

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 07 2009 09:22 simfarm wrote:


I disagree. America did not lose the civil war even by technical terms since the south succeeded FROM the united states and became a distinct identity, and then LOST.

The war of 1812 ended when both sides wanted to stop fighting; the Treaty of Ghent resulted in
"The terms stated that fighting between the United States and Britain would cease, all conquered territory was to be returned to the prewar claimant, the Americans were to gain fishing rights in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and that both the United States and Britain agreed to recognize the prewar boundary between Canada and the United States"--if anything, America gained from the war of 1812 with fishing rights increase while everything else the same.

You are also wrong about the Korean War. America lost the war just as much as China did since territory remained unchanged since prewar boundaries (north invaded south, was expelled by americans, americans invaded and then were expelled by chinese). considering this is the definition of stalemate, there is absolutely no reasoning to call a defeat. If anything, America won since it had 36k casualties compared to China's 114k.

We lost the Vietnam War that's complete fact. But it doesn't matter if France helped America or not; it matters who WON. If we go by these criteria, Britain lost ww2, which is absurd.

I have seen it 13 times now.

it is the best video ever created on a computer.

im in fucking awe of blizzard, and I am even willing to forgive them for delaying 1.08 like 18 months.

jesus. if the game is as good as that trailer, then the game will outclass every other game so hard that I doubt there will ever be a game close to it.

for those who have not yet seen the trailer I am referring to ;

ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3...railer.mov
and 2 mirrors
www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?file=60532
www.voodoofiles.com/4156

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TOO GOOD

I dont care if you have a 14.4 modem, download this plz.

and btw, I DID SEE THIS WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT BUT I DIDNT CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE LESS FORTUNATE THAN ME OUT THERE THNX GW GG NO RE

asdf

and the reason im posting links instead of some fancy "click here" thing is that me fucking up = much more likely then. I want everyone to download that trailer

On February 10 2009 19:29 KOFgokuon wrote:


what the hell

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG

On February 18 2009 12:16 SonuvBob wrote:
Most of us learned that lesson long ago, in the age of Rickroll.

On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:

SECRET OMG