Jay / c0ldfyr3
Principal authorApplication author, integrator, interface builder, packager, publisher and support contact. This does not imply that every embedded technique, idea or boot code originated with him.
Credits recovered from context
The people who kept it alive
Software needed teaching, ideas, code, patience, hosting, uploading and an audience. This record keeps those roles distinct—and keeps historical handles separate from real-world identity.
Credit people with verbs
The contemporary Darks Revenge readme is the strongest surviving credit document. Later pages add site authors, moderators, affiliates and public members, but appearing in a list does not automatically make somebody a programmer or collaborator.
Darks Revenge’s credit network
A principal author surrounded by technical, social and infrastructure help.
dark_side_kicks_ass
Boot-code contributorCredited in the contemporary readme with making “99% of the boots.” The wording applies to boot-code content, not to authorship of 99 percent of the application.
noonxnoon
Component contributorCredited with making Big Talker, which Jay integrated into the larger Darks Revenge application.
Krisco420
VB learning and helpThanked for helping Jay learn a great deal of Visual Basic and credited in the development story with a period technical discovery.
Ur_Dead_Again2001
Inspiration and helpCredited with inspiration and helping to make Darks Revenge. The surviving wording does not define a narrower technical contribution.
Gaspar of Zeal / Silas_of_Zeal
Friend and programming peerTwo historical handles used by the same person. The readme thanks Silas_of_Zeal for substantial Visual Basic help; separate Y!Zeal material uses Gaspar of Zeal. Jay remembers a close friend and daily programming peer and remains in touch.
Mechacode7
Friend and all-night companionCredited with helping Jay through multiple nights and allowing testing. Jay’s final answer is specific: Mechacode7 mattered as a friend and constant companion, not as a programmer.
dvx_usa
Hosting and general helpCredited for hosting and broader help—the infrastructure work that allowed files made over dial-up to reach other people.
Sholin1284
Uploading and distributionCredited with extensive uploading and described as indispensable. The historical spelling is retained from the readme.
Ideas, inspiration and friendship
These records preserve the kind of relationship a source actually states. They are not upgraded into development credits.
Plazmuh
InspirationNamed as an inspiration in the Darks Revenge story. No narrower authored component is claimed.
l0hr
Idea sourceCredited with giving Jay ideas unknowingly—an unusually precise reminder that influence is not the same as collaboration.
Spooky
Idea creditCredited with an idea from the Yahoo-program scene. The public account does not reconstruct or operationalise it.
ppk_ie and eieioie
School-bus friendsThanked for tolerating Jay on Monday mornings while he talked about what he had built over the weekend. The line supplies rare contemporary support for a remembered personal scene.
Knots65, Unsakred, c0rrupted20o4
Public community handlesPreserved in the wider contemporary credit and community record. They remain public handles without invented technical roles or real-world identities.
Sli3ght, ll_soldier_ll, sinister_machine
Public community handlesNames from the period network, kept as historical community evidence rather than transformed into authorship claims.
The work nobody can fully name now
Absence of a name does not erase the job.
Anonymous program-file host
Long-term file hostingJay remembers one person hosting the program files for an extended period, separate from ordinary website hosting. The evidence pass did not establish a responsible name, so the contribution remains acknowledged without attribution.
Site moderators and contributors
Public community workArchived 2003 pages show multiple named news authors and the broader site preserves moderator, member, affiliate, review and fan-art contexts. Only evidence-specific roles are used; a directory listing is not treated as collaboration.
Zero_Shade / SerenityMedia.co.uk
Third-party template creditsCredits attached to the Insane Chat website template. Jay remembers choosing a free template and not knowing the designer; they are not presented as client collaborators.
A website is code, but keeping it alive is a list of human verbs.Preservation editorial principle