A tribute to the first Minecraft server

What if we could go back and further back even further that’s way too far back take us back take us back much better around december of 2012 i was introduced to minecraft job edition playing on my mom’s old crappy laptop in about 15 frames per second it wasn’t exactly the prime experience

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Sponsoring this video alright i hope you guys enjoy bye I’ve made my first ever youtube videos on this server whether it be me exposing hackers to get them banned or being overly proud of this repeating dispenser contraption i made i was so proud of it i was so proud i was living a simple life with a simple goal

And that was to live every day clocking in at least five hours on this server considering this was during a time my family had moved away from my childhood school and the only way of contacting my old friends was through skype i had a lot of free time on my hands and

This game kept me going something a lot of people clowned on me for was my old username um it was guy guy ruler 24. i mean i mean it’s really not that bad i it’s really not okay it sucks just don’t make fun of it i was like 12 years old

When i made it anywho i bet you’re wondering what’s the server name and i’ll let you know this is no popular server rather a random 200 player andy minecraft saver called legit play it was an interesting place and had a plentiful phases throughout its history

But i joined at a point in time where it was quite simple there was a single game mode survival multiplayer or s p for short there was a tight-knit community and it was overall a friendly and peaceful server i met some of my oldest online friends there and i still have

Contact to them to this day which was like over seven years ago and it’s crazy to think that some of the players that i would see log on every day could probably have a wife and kids or hell maybe even be dead it’s a bit of a ferocious thought but

It’s definitely possible the owner of the server’s name was jeff 142 and he seemed like someone who was quite passionate about keeping the server up and running from what i remember they were just some random guy in the middle of nowhere with this whole complicated setup to keep the server going

Like seriously i have no idea what any of this [ __ ] does but he did it he did it i wanted to get a word with jeff to tell me a bit of the behind the scenes and the only way i remember on how to do that was through his

Spigotmc page i had wrote a long message that goes along the lines of this hey jeff i was an old legit player back in the day i grew up with the server as a child and hundreds of hours on this server that i probably spent the most stress-free parts of my

Life in i always wondered what happened before during and after legit play what was the story behind the server i held so close to my heart me as an oblivious child had no clue what was really happening behind the scenes besides gossip nowadays i’m a content creator and i’d

Love to know if i can have you be a part of this passion project i have in the works down for a chat sometime but it seems i had just missed him the last time he was active was mid-february and i had posted my comment early march i was saddened

Knowing i had most likely lost all opportunities of speaking with the man behind the server but it was okay i still had contact with some of the oldest players on the server and they just so happened to be those same friends i was talking about earlier

So i thought it’d be a great idea to have them come on and give me a few words while i ask them some questions so what was the first username you saw on the server the first username i used on the server was 11. damn my old username was

Xxpandadude i think uh what server did you play the most like out of any like s p ffa creative or capture the flag i mainly played smp yeah i played a lot of uh free-for-all and capture the flag i think those are the two because i really like pvp

Even though it’s like kind of bad but you know everyone sucked back then and what was the best experience that you’ve ever had like on playing legit play i remember one time we were just like you and i we were like practicing pvp and i had this really determined goal

I wanted to like kill everybody and be the best pvp and legit play and then like i literally ranked up everybody i couldn’t kill you for some reason so like because i’m a legend probably making all the friends i made and still talking to some damn that’s actually facts that’s

Actually so true yeah i remember one fun thing i did was that skyblock we had with leonard that was yeah i honestly don’t remember it you don’t remember i remember we had an argument and then you just started destroying stuff and we ended up fighting on the island

And did you have any experiences with the owner jeff oh yeah i remember one experience i had you know you know everyone like wanted to try hacks and all that so i decided to get an x-ray mod and you know just i wanted x-ray because i wanted diamonds

Jeff was mainly inactive when i was playing but i was always active so i never seen that guy before alright thanks thanks for talking to you guys i appreciate a lot i’ll talk to you guys later bye guys that’s not my name that’s just not my name [ __ ] you

It feels bittersweet knowing that the people i grew up with on this minecraft server all moved on but can still reminisce on the good times we’ve had even though the server that we used to play on is now dead i even remember a point in time where the server had gone

Backdoored by some random dude and they griefed the spawn and tormented the players but it was still surprisingly a blissful era that i hm what like legit play the s p server we played on okay pause what i was saying before let me investigate this

Yeah of course i need to buy a white list never heard of that before but i think i’ll try it huh what now damn it you’re right so i went all the way to the store to pick up a gift card just to see if this works

So i’ll take the time to say if you haven’t subscribed or liked the video yet then you definitely should i love scrolling through the comments so maybe take the time to comment about an old server you played on and i’ll be sure to give it a read okay

So i have the card here and um yeah i’m ready to go through with this i’m a little anxious but i’m praying it works and there it says the payment was successful and should be here in less than 15 minutes cool it doesn’t seem to work right now so i

Will check back in 15 minutes um 15 minutes later it seems to still not work so i’ll give it a bit longer 30 minutes later and it’s still not working jesus i swear i’m pretty sure that i just got scammed all right so at this point i was

Semi-confident that i was not gonna get whitelisted onto the server and i thought it was a scam so i just was gonna finish writing the rest of the script and then this happened okay so approximately two hours later um i just got an email from jeff themselves

Saying that they whitelisted me so i assume it’s not a scam i was a bit nervous that when i logged on i’d be in the old spawn with a bunch of community built shops but there wasn’t there were just a few signs and a house

Right on the spawn so i just left a sign along with the rest and explored a bit i still had this nostalgic feeling coursing through me i was on the first ever minecraft server i’ve ever played technically although many things have changed since then it’s still here

And so am i i went to sleep that night feeling complete as if i just came full circle and just where i thought i’d be able to end off this story the owner of the first ever minecraft server i played joined my discord server i was curious as to how they could have

Found my discord but then i realized i had joined on my main minecraft account and my username is literally my channel name so i sent him a friend request and well it looks like i got to speak to them after all Hey so what wait when did when did it actually come out when did the the server come out legit play first started in early 2012. oh okay how was it like uh originally because i wasn’t there for the smaller community i’m sure there was before i i was tossed into that well

Legit play never started as a server that was supposed to be a real big server it was originally a small whitelisted server there was a small community that grew on that and then because the multiplayer was a fairly new feature we just got a crazy amount of people what was like

The main reason of creating was it just like to have a place to play with your friends and since it was a whitelisted server well you know like a lot of people i got into minecraft largely through youtube and i thought wow that looks pretty cool

This was at a point where there weren’t really established servers yeah and the servers that were established were just so poorly managed it was just open to everybody and basically what we consider an anarchy server today oh yeah so that’s really what pushed me to create it yeah

To make like something that didn’t exist at the time basically yeah what was uh the hardest point in time of running the server like just running it in general um there were a few really rough times running a server i i guess the worst part about it would be the time investment

I would frequently spend 16 hours a day on that server then there was a lot of back end stuff you know the not fun stuff a hard drive fails in one of our dedicated servers so you gotta rebuild the hardware where some update happens and you’ve gotta patch it what is

The best moments of legit play are running legit play over the past years you know it’s something i’ve never noticed about legit play when it was a thing but i would say the people that i still know from that server you know i’ve become fairly good friends with a lot of people

Just through that server that still lasts to this day and have you had any like serious like problems with a specific player like was there any players that like affected the server and cause many issues that you remember there was probably three people in the entire time that legit play was a thing

That really became serious problems organized ddos attacks you know of course all the admins got doxxed stuff like that you know you know we even had other servers that would attack us yeah i i definitely do remember a video someone talking about how servers just back in the day would just

Kind of attack each other yeah that was that was a serious thing because if you could knock off a server you could gain their players yeah that is absurd well jeff thanks again for chatting with me i really appreciate the time and i wish you good luck on the future adios Anyways thank you so much for watching this video to the end i appreciate all of you and i’ll see you all in the next one adios