People Mentioned in the [wiki:NetrekTimeline Netrek Timeline]

Person

Noble Deed(s)

L.Barbaresi (Luca Barbaresi)

ran the ENL (European Netrek League)

J.Cameron (James Cameron)

maintainer of vanilla source distribution.

T.Chang (Terence Chang)

started bronco server, invented Iggy, invented Netrek Hockey, discovered Ogging as an art form, invented Top Gun mode, tested original UDP code

N.Cook (Neil Cook)

wrote first sound client

J.Daleske (John Daleske)

co-author of original Empire

D.Davis (David Davis)

author of Trek82 and co-author of Trek83

J.Diachun (Justin Diachun)

wrote the Helix borg

L.Dickens (Leonard Dickens)

created & ran the NBR voting process

J.Edwards (Jon Edwards)

co-author of Xtrek III

[omitted] (omitted so as not to encourage such things)

infamous borg user; broke initial RSA authentication by patching the executing process

J.Frain (Jerry Frain)

helped with creation of KSU Galaxy server

G.Fritz (Gary Fritz)

co-author of updated Empire

F.Gallo (Felix Gallo a/k/a Felix Ortony a/k/a Sunscreamer)

lots of amusing rec.games.netrek posts, first game via PC+Linux+SLIP

B.Gillespie (Brandon Gillespie)

advocate and release coordinator of paradise servers

D.Gosselin (Dave Gosselin)

developed a vanilla server release

D.Grant (Dennis Grant)

Current Netrek home page maintainer

C.Guthrie (Chris Guthrie)

author of Xtrek and co-author of Trek83

T.Hadley (Tedd Hadley)

tested original UDP code, set up base-practice server (among others) at UCI, wrote several clients, designed lots of server hacks, developed XSG v2.x from the v1.22 sources, wrote XNetrekM

J.Hardwick (Jonathan Hardwick)

maintained Netrek information archive

D.Swazey (Dave Swazey)

wrote client patches for first game recorder [Swazey was using Julian Ho's account; he is a/k/a Ensign ensign]

T.Holub (Tom Holub)

created alt.games.xtrek and rec.games.netrek, formed the INL, wrote & maintained FAQ lists

J.Hsu (Jack Hsu)

created & ran the first dogfight tournament, co-author of NDB and first Mac client, wrote Netrek transwarp code, developed "soccer"

E.James (Ed James)

wrote robots for Trek83, wrote parts of Xtrek

R.Jones (Ray Jones)

developed RSA, first INL server hack

N.Lai (Nick Lai)

author of ROBOTREK, co-author of Xtrek III

C.Leres (Craig Leres)

co-author of Conquest for VAX/VMS

B.McCoy (Brett McCoy)

author of KSU Chaos server

A.McFadden (Andy McFadden)

wrote XSG, wrote UDP code, adapted gw for UDP, wrote pledit, wrote trekhopd, wrote MetaServerII, wrote mucus.l, wrote & maintained FOCS list

B.Mediratta (Bharat Mediratta)

wrote server-side game recorder/player

E.Mehlhaff (ERic Mehlhaff)

wrote first Netrek borg, wrote METASERVER, wrote Berkeley client, wrote mynetd

C.Miller (Chuck Miller)

co-author of updated Empire

R.Muliana (Rony Muliana)

enhanced (?) Moo client

T.Mummert (Todd Mummert)

wrote pig borg, uncrowned winner of the Build a Better Borg wars

J.Nelson (Jeff Nelson)

author of Hydra, started the IBL

M.Noworolski (J. Mark Noworolski)

wrote BRM client, hacked on INL server

S.Peltz (Steve Peltz)

wrote tournament version of Empire

J.Pirnie (Jamie Pirnie)

revived Netrek home page and maintainer of factoryx servers.

J.Poskanzer (Jef Poskanzer)

co-author of Conquest for VAX/VMS

K.Powell (Keven R. Powell)

author of COW-lite client

S.Sheldon (Steve Sheldon)

author of RomaBerkMoo client

D.Teo (David Teo)

wrote gfborg

N.Trown (Nick Trown)

developed guzzler server sources, wrote RSA utilities, maintained RSA key list, maintained vanilla distrubtion, maintains US metaserver

D.Tsang (Donald Tsang)

created sturgeon-style server

S.Silvey (Scott Silvey)

Netrek co-author (added plasmas, different ship types, tractor beams, etc)

K.Smith (Kevin Smith)

Netrek co-author (changed to client/server, added X11 and GL support, ranks/DI, tmode)

B.Verser (Brick A. Verser)

worked on KSU Chaos server, ran the INL server for early league games

S.Warner (Slias Warner)

co-author of original Empire

R.Weinstein (Rick Weinstein)

wrote Moo client, eventually renamed it to ricksmoo to avoid confusion with rabbit-ear moo

H.Wengler (Heiko Wengler)

wrote SHORT_PACKETS mods

J.Wu (Jiang Wu)

co-author of NDB and first Mac client

D.Yee (Danny Yee)

founded ANL (Australian Netrek League)

J.Young (Joseph F. Young)

worked on KSU servers