What Happened to garrysmod.org?

[@RichterOvertime]

UPDATE: Garrysmods dot org is also gone now too. So this site is now actually just gone forever. This sucks.

[@jameskidd8470]

i just went to check it out and i end up here...

[@averyidiotchannel8081]

Its so over....

[@goodGD.]

It's over...

[@ElliottSix]

The curiosity of me found this video, then discovered that they're all gone :(

[@TailsXCosmo]

At least there’s some addons for gmod 9/10/11/12 from moddb and gamebanana

[@NoscoperLoaf]

Its kind of crazy that next year Gmod will be 20 Years Old and there are still tons of people playing it

[@TRCumbox]

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[@epicfan-cc7fq]

@@TRCumbox it first came out in 2004, not 2006.

[@TRCumbox]

@@epicfan-cc7fq didnt it come out in 2006 on steam? or am i not remembering it correctly

[@tdtbaa]

@@TRCumbox 0:33

[@NekoBuilds]

@@TRCumbox It was originally released as a mod in December 2004, and was only released as a standalone game on steam in 2006.

[@blessthismessss]

as someone who's been playing gmod since 2009, thank you so much for chronicling this game. its come so far, it's so sad to see how few people know what it was like back then; it was honestly golden

[@DraconicMordred]

Times have changed, but the game has relatively stayed the same.

[@Combine-C17]

I still play this game, and I would love to get more people playing it, it’s probably one of my favorite games of all time.

[@TheMetasora]

@@DraconicMordred So far from the truth, literal thousands of gamemodes and content vanished because the code is unplayable. Huge amounts of developers and players left due to it a good example is Garry's mod tower devs making Tower Unite.

[@LugiDergX]

@@TheMetasora Well, that is an issue of age of code within those addons rather than game itself, which still plays quite more or less the same. As for Tower Unite example, whether we like it or not and whatever Source engine can still achieve, it is just heavily outdated and the age really does show - Not in a bad way, but there's only so much you can do with an engine this old that other engines probably couldn't have had done a million times better. I still quite think that the game is very much the same but simply different people play it.

[@oShadowkun]

Much agreed, I made my steam account back in may 2008 just to buy hl2 dm(cheapest source game i believe at the time) and gmod, been playing it since! these types of videos make me feel old.

[@hamburglar7403]

The Toybox era was the main time that I played Garry’s Mod growing up, I think it’s the time I feel so fondly towards. It was something new and fresh

[@DraconicMordred]

Toybox Era was the goat

[@thegeforce6625]

Man, the toybox era was *the* shit. I got the majority of my hours playing GMOD single player messing with toybox gun mods and trying them out on spawned NPC’s. Ohh those where the days…

[@hamburglar7403]

@@thegeforce6625 I liked all the silly boxes that would bounce around

[@supertigerroadtrip5193]

Old Server browser too

[@GlebyGlobster]

I wish i started playing during that era. I started playing in the gmod workshop era. (Specifically i started playing on october 22nd 2017)

[@NotRealAkira]

I miss the old internet. Back before everything was so standardized and before it was a requirement for everything. Nowadays everyone has and uses the internet and I've gotta say it... It's kind of boring when all the websites look the same, feel the same and handle the same. I miss when browsing the web was like exploring something new and going on a new website was like going on an adventure. No two websites really looked the same. Forums were fun and all had their own communities. Now it feels like everyone's just kinda mixed together and it obviously leads to a lot of feud. Not to mention flash and what it did for the web before it was taken away... I guess I miss that it was an escape from reality and not just an extension of it. Alas, the good times are gone now and we can only look back at what was and reminisce. It's very lonely.

[@jayhollows5729]

I remember when I was about 12 or 13 in 2008 and i could never get garrys mod because my parents never got a halfway decent computer to run things on so I ended up watching a lot of gmod videos. Back then you could find anything on the internet from cool shit to shock sites that my friends tried to show me.

[@dinonatorful]

Not to mention cookie walls, paywalls, login walls and every other reason every website sucks now

[@Analog-to-digital-cotinual]

Misery loves company we're here with u atleast

[@Raptorx9100]

its the book the giver happening right before us.. or even better quoted from Michael Crichton: "Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species." Yes? Why is that?" Because it means the end of innovation," Malcolm said. "This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behaviour. We innovate new behaviour to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That's the effect of mass media - it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity. [..]” ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

[@jayhollows5729]

@@Raptorx9100 uhhhh no offense dude but it sounds like the person you are quoting doesn't understand evolution. Evolution is simply the change in gene frequency over time and the internet which is an immaterial thing doesn't affect this process. People aren't birds on an island, the dynamic is different. It's like the people who use the term "alpha" and "beta" in the context of humans when that terminology came from a study of the dynamics of captive wolves, which doesn't apply to humans. Isolationism isn't something that works with an incredibly social species like humans, and if isolating on an island "speeds up evolution" then japan would be the number one country and not dealing with a multitude of problems. Having access to information like we do now benefits intellectual diversity. Decades ago people thought that elvis was evil, pokemon cards were satanic and there was a magical sky daddy. Less people believe those archaic ideals so the connection we have to these things have actually helped people.

[@tolafia6708]

i love how no matter how quiet i bring my headphones, you are still so loud. Like old youtube with whispering as the baseline, but backwards.

[@3n3j0t4]

ye he actually edits his audio well

[@LazyBuddyBan]

better too loud than too quiet. you cant make something quiet more louder at max volume

[@karolkozik5918]

He's a grifter lol. Can't mix the audio that it's actually balanced so that if you listen on a low volume a lot (like me) you aren't blasted with his loud voice.

[@Lobopandilla]

Garry's Mod was my childhood, and since I found your channel I watch your videos over and over again, it's a joy to see the new video notification. You're the best.

[@devoremedia9164]

-Garry's Mod was my childhood -Emil Cioran profile picture. A lot's changed for you.

[@jingusjongus9377]

I started during the toybox era around when I was 9 or 10ish, and I remember it being basically my whole life when I wasn't at school. We had a computer that was from like 2001 and it would run the game semi-okay but it would take HOURS to load into a map. So what I would do is wake up before school, start the game loading into a map, and when I got home it would be just about done, and this resulted in me having something like 20,000 hours on my first account before I lost that lmao

[@PretzelSage]

Same. Worst was when you got home and that shit crashed.

[@figardo]

the virgin "we can't keep maintaining the site" vs the chad "we accidentally deleted the site"

[@JRBDWD]

Hahahahaha

[@thesucc990]

Boy this takes me back. I remember the endless hunt for a working Portal Gun mod and that annoying script error spam in the top left corner. Good times indeed.

[@epicCoolgiytryhsrfsea]

Nowadays people use Seamless Portals because that Portal SWEP is broken

[@jacob127409]

There's a Gmod animation on KZbin somewhere that the whole premise was about toybox. But it also used KZbin annotations as well for showing sources of different gags and songs so it's a double whammy of services lost to time.

[@SnowyFluffboi]

You know what's funny? I first played Gmod back in like 2011/2012, so my first experience with the game was with the ToyBox era, and I just loved it since it just felt like there was an endless amount of content to explore. And I had fun everytime by myself. I do really miss it

[@TheAkrillion]

Was there since GMod 9 unofficially. This shit was my childhood. Only managed to get the Steam version around 2014-2015. I still love the game and will return to it sometimes, but instead of whatever's popular now, I like to do what I always liked about GMod: filming and goofing around with friends.

[@CuldirOfficial]

man I am glad your channel is growing fast

[@TareqGamer]

I remember going through the site downloading a bunch of mods that my very old pc couldn't handle, it was a glorious time lol

[@Shinii1]

I started playing gmod about a year and a half ago, and this channel has shown me crazy things that are possible. Thanks richter!

[@wsq1002]

Bro. I'm 26 now and Source Engine was my childhood. I just got hit with a massive nostalgia wave when I saw the screencap of that site. I used to go there every day to check what goofy stuff modders came up with. I distinctly remember that thumbnail for Dismemberment mod. My kid brain was half scared and half fascinated. God, those were the days. I've never thought I'd say this line lol.

[@oShadowkun]

Exact same boat here. Am playing through HL1 for the first time and decided to hop on YT for a break and saw this video lol. Good times :P

[@HerrMarajin]

I remember checking that place every day. I distinctively remember even checking it daily from a public Internet kiosk when I had to stay at a hospital for a while at the time. It was the era where that hoverboard mod was released and I really wanted to build a map to use with the boards, but couldn't because I was stuck at the hostipal.

[@josephjames9090]

Ur channel is so freaking good dude I feel like u covering source stuff in general makes u much more dynamic and interesting than the tf2 youtube I watch all the time lol, always happy to see more

[@Slimeakku]

Gosh the toybox was probably the most magical way to download addons, it may not be the best but it was so fun downloading something with all those icons spinning at the bottom and clicking off as you got closer, only to be greeted by a magical sparkly noise once it finished downloading the addon and it appearing right in front of you.

[@wildpiercy1141]

"Bloody penis model" good lord you have to love 1.0 content moderation. (And totally get if you're just done with the subject entirely, but Anomidae's INTERLOPER series seems to be doing something interesting in Source digital horror. Despite first appearances I believe it's doing something very different than "what if a game character was alive?" and utilizes the replay system in an interesting way.)

[@Lxrso]

As someone who has played GMod since 2011, it was actually the first game I ever downloaded on my horrible childhood laptop. I have fond memories of loading up whatever map I wanted, and just running around with the toybox. Really wish it was still around to some extent, and the premise behind it still blows my mind to this day.

[@Gravarty]

Man, I remember in 2010 or so I downloaded a small map from this site where someone recreated their apartment/flat in Garry's Mod. It was a small apartment with 3 rooms and you could look out the window in the living room where you could see a parking lot and a street, it was night and rainy.... For years I've been trying to find this map again, because this is where I first felt the "liminal space" phenomenon :D

[@cDog8766]

I can still hear the popcorn sound from files downloading in Toy Box! I honestly miss toy box to this day, and would love to see it come back over the current in game mod down loader system

[@azericthetraveller6355]

As someone who only got gmod a couple years ago, it’s really interesting hearing the history of it and what I missed out on. It’s a little sad that I did miss it, but this is a way to almost experience those times. Thanks.

[@HaircombMan]

Gmod in that era taught me a lot on how to drag and drop files to this day. I have so many fond and frustrating memories because of it. This video truly describes that magical time. Thank you.

[@whatisoven5225]

I started actually getting into PC gaming I think in early 2018. My first game was Subnautica, but my second was Gmod, and ever since, I haven't stopped playing it. I haven't been in the community longer than others, but Gmod definitely holds a special place in my heart. It also led my to one of my current favorite game series of all time. Half-Life. Led me to a lot of KZbin stuff too. Like this channel.

[@madbruv]

Awesome. Damn its wierd ppl find out about half life from gmod and not the other way around.

[@Spartan_Tanner]

I had zero idea the original website disappeared randomly. Wow I barely know about the history of this game.

[@scientidead]

thanks blobertime for another quality video

[@engieknight]

thank you joevertime, you introduced me and my friends to melon racer and it was vaguely amusing

[@npc_citizen9276]

I remember playing on a pirate version of gmod 10 years ago. I loved to browse through mod pages. It's really nostalgic.

[@Bug_Bait]

The toybox downloads' little boxes filling up and making pinging noises was immensely satisfying.

[@IKMojito]

What a trip down memory lane. Also great taste in music, I really liked the use of the old Cortex Command menu theme

[@Freemelon07]

I still play Gmod every day. It'll never feel dead to me since I just play on my own doing random shit.

[@dupre7416]

Brother, you are spreading the arcane internet history that I hope will never be forgotten. You're doing good work.

[@WretchedRedoran]

I only managed to get a PC that could run games back in early 2020, and GMOD was the first on my list of games to get... I'll always lament not being able to play it sooner, even if I was a wee fella when I first discovered it.

[@spaceghostmiid]

1:00 modding sites are also not only common but pretty much necessary in sim racing communities. without community made mods we would be stuck with whatever licenses devs could get, which more often than not isn't a very long list.

[@Xandoshi]

this whole video just sparked a memory in my head about gmod toybox. there was a multiplayer toy that allowed you to connect to a text server, and use the text chat to talk to other players who also downloaded it. i do not remember what the addon was called, i remember not finding it afterwards, but it was a very neat thing none the less. Surprisingly, there was something similar that happend in Roblox where you could play with the Studio app with others. with the server being unusable after someone used the smash brawl anti matter bomb prop.

[@pixelatedowls]

i was SO LATE to gmod i joined after update 13 and the fnaf craze. i truly know i missed out on some gold and this channel brings me to a nostalgic time i just missed. i love this type of content to learn about its past !

[@vissova]

Man, I remember the Toybox. It legitimately felt like pulling all kinds of fun and unique things to mess with out of a box. It was so long ago and so brief that for years I wondered if my memories of it were just me misremembering the Steam Workshop. Such a hit of nostalgia to see that menu again.

[@londiebrondie]

8:35 No, I still associate it with the missing texture

[@aGhastlyGuy]

I remember the days of downloading mods from the site, throwing all of them in my folder, and having blast by myself shooting Darth Vader in slow motion while hearing "OOoooh watcha saaaaaaay"

[@Templarfreak]

the main thing i wish they'd do with the Workshop is have much better and tighter moderation on the usage of tags. so many people will just tag every single tag imaginable on their mod even though most of them are entirely unapplicable, nobody does anything about this, and it makes searching for specific things on the Workshop a pain in the ass. sometimes people will also not label their dupes as dupes so they don't get filtered out when you disable searching for dupes, and that's also really frustrating.

[@madlad7488]

It's weird, I got into Gmod animations years ago not because of Half Life or TF2 but because of left for dead 1 and 2, but never played till my brother bought it around 2015. And I never owned it till 2020 or 2021. But I still feel nostalgic watching these videos covering It's history.

[@clayleone9111]

Man such great childhood memories this brough back. I don't care what you did back in '44, you're a good guy RO. Facepunch! oh my god

[@feverkeep]

Still fairly new to the Gmod Community and I already feel like I've been in the community for years. Edit: I'm not actually that new to the community, I just remembered watching gmod machinimas when I was younger lmao.

[@raiden.real6218]

I am tho

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Ngl when you added sticker brush sympathy in the background I had a tear I tend to associate that song with simpler times and nostalgia lol Great video btw

[@b4rc0d3z]

NO NOT THE CORTEX COMMAND THEME MAN! It's fucking summer and I hear this shit you're GUTTING me with nostalgia

[@varlotto]

I stopped playing gmod when the toy box came out for semi-unrelated reasons but it's interesting to hear gmod got more popular after

[@JackNormalMemes]

That Cortex Command music caught me off guard

[@bradlauk1419]

I remember back in probably 07/09ish I got gmod and a nuke mod as well as a dinosaur mod and just spent hours crashing my game nuking dinosaurs.

[@killernugget97]

i still remember playing with gmod 8 being very confused , so seeing stuff like this laid out is quite the hit of nostalgia.

[@LettyWhiterock]

at 4:01 what map is that. I downloaded it back when the gmod 13 beta came out and goofed around on it a ton. But I haven't been able to find it since.

[@richardmemesgames]

Gm_freespace

[@labenvenci1584]

I never used Gmod org but still remember Toybox. I started Gmod around Between the end of Gmod 10 and 11, and when 12 launched, and was something that inspired Steam Workshop mainly. Sad all those mods are kinda just lost.

[@shudust]

"then you really just missed out". Me, who started playing Half Life (not even lol, Black Mesa really) like a month and a half a ago for the first time ever at 26 years old, in agreement: "well fuck you Richter" lmao. love your videos dude. i genuinely love learning about a culture i never really had any contact with even tho it was happening at the same time i was there

[@gamesux420]

2:10 i remember having to run a mod for left 4 dead 2 to make it uncensored because im from germany so i eventually found this mod that you'd open the exe first then open the game and it made this weird noise so u know it activated. And then whenever me and friends wanted to play someone would ask if someone can send them the mod because it was a sketchy download but we knew the version one of u had at the time was clean. Good times back then

[@matiasgaming4971]

Yeah. I remember going to the site sometimes because it had some stuff you couldn't find on the workshop. Only to find it gone one day, and not even a week later, I forgot it ever existed, due to the convience of the workshop. I've only ever remembered it when it has been mentioned by name

[@jackwill76]

Jump to 7:10 if you want to know why it disappeared (Spoilers: there's no reliable explanation given)

[@kabob0077]

7:15 Cortex Command music really just came out of nowhere.

[@IMortalNemesisI]

I can't believe I completely forgot about this site, If I didn't see this video I probably wouldn't have ever remembered. Super nostalgic.

[@archangel4338]

Man, I remember posting the most jank-looking wallpapers I made on there; good times and a nice trip down memory lane.

[@kiryum9080]

Your almost at 200k,you have really grown alot.Been here since 20k

[@sdcard7129]

That same home screen on the Workshop's front page is always so damn iconic and gives me such a at-home feeling.

[@SlaaneshsBestBoy]

I was on it roughly 8 months ago and suddenly when I tried to find it last night, it's gone. (I would often get old maps and sweeps and play them in current Gmod) I also got tilted when they changed v_arms to c_arms. Oh boy did I hate that change.

[@zadeinator2370]

i was not expecting to hear the cortex command main theme in this vid

[@gominho9424]

I've known garrysmod ever since 2011 by watching machinimas and random horror maps walkthroughs. The first time I ever played garrysmod was in 2013.

[@PhantomCheddar]

seeing that splash page with the different sized keywords sent me flying back. crazy.

[@e_doors]

i remember watching a person play gmod using the toybox addons they just got like the nyan smg. i also remember watching someone trying to kill a "HACKS!" npc with that one boat addon as defence on youtube

[@SamTheSamsquatch]

This was such a throwback, thanks for making this video. I remember surfing that site non-stop as a simple minded 12 year old, picking random mods that peaked my interest. I remember when Kermite's weapon packs was still new and being so hyped when the Sniper pack dropped 😂 So many maps I explored too, some I still can't find to this day on the workshop. & Jfc I totally forgot about the bloody penis, that was a buried memory.

[@JacubanGecko]

boy that top keyword bar with the gradually decreasing text size takes me back. I feel like modding on pages like Garrysmod org or nexus really did make modding so much more fun. I doubt i'd be half as good at computer skills if it weren't for seeing those damn purple and black squares for hours on end trying to figure out how the directory was meant to work

[@SonicChaocc]

I miss the toybox. You'd load in addons that wouldnt be added to your own addons. I remember getting a soda swep which I cant find on the workshop I remember my first mod, an NPC Haruhi mod which I had trouble downloading. My favorite mods was Big City and a hookshot swep which was just the crossbow but you could swing around which was fun

[@WorldsWorstBoy]

I remember struggling to mod things into gmod but it helped me learn to trouble shoot pc file issue later in life lol.

[@JackFoxtrotEDM]

Man, I remember Venturiantale. Shame about what happened.

[@kiwiguyy]

Did not expect to hear Cortex Command ost

[@PatrickGilland]

I remember when they first added the workshop, I wasn't really feeling it, because it didn't have the real-time, in-game downloading system that Toybox used to have. There were also Toybox addons that never made the transition, so the lot of it feels like lost media at this point. Nowadays, addons like the Midgame Workshop Hotloader kinda restores some of that real-time in-game functionality, but there is still a certain charm lost with the replacement of the Toybox.

[@Kiwoeoe]

i wrote such a huge comment, explaining a story about nessie.... that i had as a child in Gmod... i came back to make a small edit to it.... just to see you deleted it or youtube did... nice.. it was a heart moving story from my life it felt so good that it was out... just to be deleted, damn didnt think this would hurt

[@Kippykip]

Thing I loved about toybox was you could get mods WHILE in game. Didn't have to back to the title and quit everytime.

[@Blitz-0012]

4:43 Yes... truly magical.

[@dyrocecto541]

man I miss the gmod idiot box, I seriously hope we get another episode before the world ends

[@quinnjohnson9750]

I remember the toybox when I got Gmod in 2010. I miss the old toy box and prefer it to the Workshop TBH. The old loading box popping noise for the Toybox just gives me nostalgia thinking about it.

[@thegeforce6625]

Same, when the toybox was deleted, I basically stopped playing gmod as I found it to be more convenient than the workshop since I didn’t need to shutdown the game in order to install mods. I also remember the sounds of toybox downloads fondly.

[@Ethorbit]

Glad I'm not the only one. I understand why Garry switched though.

[@JM-yv8xs]

Thank you for making this video, i recently loaded up gmod after years of not playing and remembered the site but not the name and spent way too long looking for it thinking i was going insane, yeah its nice being able to access the mods in game doing it yourself through the website was something else

[@deadmilk1]

My first memories with gmod were loading up some shitty pirated version of the gmod 13 beta, going to youtube and downloading every single possible weapons mod

[@eX1st4132]

was NOT expecting to see Doomworld, a forum i visit every day, show up at 2:01 in a Richter Overtime video. I skipped past it the first time I saw it, too, but then a second later I said "is that fucking doomworld?"

[@jazitbe]

Please do a video on Facepunch, I was a member of the forums from 2007 till it's death. Still a member of its offshoot forum, Knockout.

[@CombustibleLemon77]

I was surprised when one of my favorite youtubers showed the KZbin thumbnail of the very first video I saw by my #1 favorite youtuber

[@thomastomatovich]

Very nice video and editing, love the usage of the Hotline Miami OST

[@aleksazivic9539]

That Cortex Command Music go hard

[@GoodMorningCIA]

Here's a fun little useless fact: There used to be a Garry's Mod Wikipedia. Like a real one. It's called The Garry's Mod Bible. Im guessing it was closed by GMod 10.

[@capttheryonz5896]

Pretty cool vid, made me nostalgic for the times I watched all of bedbanana's gmod vids over and over again! Just wondering what the first music track during the intro is, cuz it sounds pretty good!

[@TailsXCosmo]

It happened again

[@STCTZenzas]

Please explained.

[@Acerr_Ace]

Have you talked about what happened to venturentale as they did play a big role in the games life and I personally feel as tho it's important to alert people to what's happening to them

[@bomric1788]

Dude part of what got me into my IT career was manually modding gmod back in the day

[@matthewmiskiewicz8357]

4:30 please please do a video on this, there is so much to cover

[@91-octane]

having the biggest rush of nostalgia right now. been playing gmod since 2007

[@TDRR_Gamez]

It's always weird to hear Commander Keen music on unrelated videos. But also great.

[@thelegendofpatapon484]

GOD This video brings me good memories when I was a child and bought gmod around 2008-2009! Thanks Richter!

[@artyom2801]

Fun fact: Payday 2 had its own Modding page, LastBullet. But it got shutdown after a scandal and rebooted into Mod Workshop which is mainly Payday 2 modding, but covers other games, even if they are just a fraction of Payday 2 or even most Starbreeze games.

[@hotel_arcadia]

7:32 Holy shit, that's me- (Kibochen)

[@valkaerie8715]

Reminds me of how the Armaholic website shut down. Even had a similar design, what with the keywords search and all that. Though, that one's a lot more dramatic and less mysterious.

[@theslav-combineempire2997]

I personally never could have gotten into GMod because I was still a Czech kid living in the middle of nowhere, but I did watch tons of GMod videos, most of which are deleted, so the nostalgia hits me as much as it hit you.