Duck and Cover

Duck and Cover is a large Fallout fansite, established on 13 January 1998 by some guy called Jay. It is the host of this wiki. It's alright, and has a rock and roll history of bad hosts, mass spam, quitting management and other stuff.

History
Initially, Duck and Cover was under the domain www.fallout2.net, on the same server as No Mutants Allowed. It was hosted by an Interplay fansite, as the guy who ran the server wouldn't normally allow two fansites of the same game on one server. In 2000, Kreegle joined the staff.

Initially, the site was very much in the shadow of NMA, but got noticed by Silverdawn, the head of the RPG department at Gamespy, who offered them hosting. They accepted, and got Smackrazor to design the new site layout. The new address of the site was www.rpgplanet.com/fallout, now taken by one of the sites previously hosted by DAC. At that time Jay didn't have time to work on the site anymore, so Kreegle took over as the guy in charge of DAC.

Later on, Dan Wood and Killzig joined the site, and DAC was thriving. For some time, after Miroslav left, it had much more news, content and forum activity than NMA. Those were also the times when Fallout Tactics was still being developed and there was much optimism in the community. After some time, after Fallout Tactics turned out not to be what everyone wanted it to be, activity in the Fallout community diminished, as there were no new Fallout games in development.

In 2003, Killzig posted rumors about a console game codenamed Fallout Fantasy which he got from his secret source, and bitched at Interplay about it. The rumors spoke of Fallout Fantasy and a console Fallout game, and Killzig posted about them as one game, although later on it turned out that Fallout Fantasy was in fact Lionheart and the console game was Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The higher powers at GameSpy put their foot down and kicked Killian from the network. Kreegle responded by moving the site off RPGPlanet and going independent.

The site was moved to www.duckandcover.net, and most of the forum regulars followed over. Since then, however, not restricted by GameSpy, Saint_Proverbius and Killzig wrote as they saw it, with more bitterness and sarcasm against Interplay. Since 2002, Saint_Proverbius focused more and more on RPG Codex. Eventually, Kreegle started to post less and less at Duck and Cover, eventually officially retiring from the site in 2003. Since then, Killzig was effectively in charge of the website.

Killzig grew less and less interested in DAC. Since he did not pay for the duckandcover.net domain, it was cybersquatted, and for a while, DAC was gone. After a while it was temporarily moved to thevats.net, but most of the links were broken and nobody cared enough to fix them. In January 2004 Killzig had an incredibly stupid idea of giving admin powers to Megatron and Spazmo, because he thought the forum was getting boring, and it could use some chaos to liven it up. Eventually, the forums ended up broken and many users received fist.jpg in their e-mail from DAC. Mad at Killzig, Kreegle came back only to close down the site, take Killzig's admin powers, and give the FTP passwords to Odin of NMA, so that he could take all the content he wanted. Saint_Proverbius was irritated at Kreegle for not consulting him about that, restored the forums, and deleted Kreegle's admin account.

Eventually, Killzig got married and finally disappeared from the community, and the site was given to a new staff, headed by Mr. Teatime. Eventually, the duckandcover.cx domain was acquired, which is where the site is now. In 2005, the site was moved to a new host, JJTEK, and The Vault, a Fallout wiki was created, both to replace the Duck and Cover database of information about Fallout games and to serve as a reference of knowledge about the setting both for the fans and (hopefully) for developers of future Fallout games.

People in charge of Duck and Cover

 * Jay (1998-2000)
 * Kreegle (2000-2003)
 * Killzig (2003-2004)
 * Mr. Teatime (2004-present)

Links

 * Duck and Cover