History 101, Continued

Arron said, "We did network integration and infrastructure for a number of years. We had a contract to work with the city of Buffalo to set up fiber, Cat5 and Cat6 networks. We got really good at doing that. Now these were fully structured cabling systems following all the specs. We worked really hard and learned a lot in the process. We ended up working for Adelphia in 1999 for a while and established an office in Orlando, Florida with approximately 30 to 40 people."

At the time, they were installing and servicing Adelphia's cable modems. Buffalo, New York was the first area that they rolled everything out in and they were one of the first contractors to start working with them. Adam Randazzo and Aaron wrote the tactical installation manuals for Adelphia, which are still in use throughout all of their franchises.

Aaron said, "Adelphia's bankruptcy really had a big impact on our business." When it happened, they were forced to close the Florida office, which gave them a lot of free time on their hands. They then decided to look into doing CyberJocks again. During the course of doing all of their other business, they never stopped talking about doing it again. They loved playing games, and on every Thursday night, they would get together with another company to play. "We would play Total Annihilation until about two in the morning. This happened until EverQuest came out, which screwed everybody's life up." Said Aaron.

The place is calling out for people to use it.

They started planning and calculating for over a year before CyberJocks became a reality again. Before the doors opened to the public in March of 2003, they had a lot of work to do. I was first introduced to CyberJocks in December 2002 when they helped sponsor the Fragnation "A Call to Arms" LAN Party. They were in the process of planning and building at that point, but they had a method to their madness.