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An Empire History: A Community Laying the Foundation

April 3, 2014 by AlexC__ 7 Comments

Like most communities out there in the unknown that is the Web, EMC started off as a group of friends trying something new.

It all began in 2011 with GameKrib, a site that JustinGuy and GamekribJeremy founded together after their many OBAM adventures together with Team Fortress. Now you might ask yourself; who are these people!? JustinGuy was EMC’s programmer and financial manager up until 2012 when his new family amongst other matters of importance in his life took over. GamekribJeremy is IcecreamCow! That’s right, his retired alternate account.

Gamekrib is a community gaming site dedicated to everything, and although they weren’t founding members, GamekribJim, NursekillJoy amongst others were part of it. However it wasn’t until KribCraft – our original name – was born that the group started playing Minecraft together.

And from there KribCraft became EMC, owned by Kalland Labs and managed by both Justin and Jeremy, expanding as friends invited their friends to just one server and community – main.empireminecraft.com or what is known today as SMP1.

Stay tuned to find out what happened next  – from the ever-growing expansion to 9 servers, changes in the community and how we play and how Kalland Labs LLC and Justin transitioned to Aikar and Starlis LLC amongst other interesting historical EMC events!

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  1. Silken_thread says

    April 3, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    Nice beginning I like a good story and can’t wait for the next trilling instalment 🙂 I find myself as I get older I have become more nostalgic so as this story progresses I will be thinking back to my time on EMC to the good the bad and the great. Keep up the good work.

    Silken_thread

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  2. hashhog3000 says

    April 3, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    Now THIS is what I like to see! 😀

    Reply
  3. Sam says

    April 3, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    Nice post Alex!

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  4. Finchy says

    April 3, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    What is the Exact Date that EMC became EMC from KribCraft?

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  5. AlexChance says

    April 4, 2014 at 4:56 am

    I’m unsure of the exact date KC became EMC, however this video is from June 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jhRAXKAgdfc 🙂

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    • Finchy says

      April 4, 2014 at 7:13 am

      The reason why i was asking is coz in the future we should have a EMC Birthday, You know what i mean? Maybe you can dig around an ask ICC when they first opened the server up to the public.

      ~Finch,

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      • AlexChance says

        April 4, 2014 at 10:19 pm

        Oh, don’t worry we do have EMC birthdays 🙂

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