Of course, we were never really a Sacred site first... we only started the site cuz a bunch of us from Sacred forum were first at Dagirl's site, which she threw up, and became like a cool new home while we were waiting for Sacred 2... the game, of course was Ogame... the most compelling and immersive game ever made, worse than anything I've ever played, and which I had to stop playing after two years.
One of the early members, Indy13, was a huge metal fan... him, me, jun and someone else, I forget who, formed our own alliance, so we weren't able to stay on Dagirls' site anymore. We started a free forum, so that the four of us could post messages to each other instead of doing it inside the game... it was during that time the name came up... Indy was a huge metal fan... *groan* I hated metal, knew nothing about it, and was vehemently against it For a few days, we sent names back and forth and I think the name came cuz of some metal band he liked which had the word "dark" in it (I think he wanted us to be called Dark Metal or something like that, aieeeeeeeeeeee... ... he INSISTED we used that word... so after some mulling, I came up with my half, which was Matter...which was the cool word at the time...but, as we were also dimly thinking of a future... we added the s to it, so that it meant something more vague, ... a kind of collection of outside thinkers or thinking... out of the box, strange, brave...
Word spread throughout the net, everyone else from the Sacred community started finding us, and from 4 peeps, kicked out of an old clan, we became hundred, then thousands then tens of thousands.
And that's your history, my beloved online family
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