Gloom-fan Clyde Radcliffe recently asked:
- "Is there some history to Gloom's origins, also is Ted Archer famous?"
Well, Clyde, thank you for asking. Feel free to ask any time you want. A simple man might look at your question and answer it all at once; here at The Gloom, however, we like to take the tortoise's approach and win races through sheer boredom. So here's some kind of an answer:
- "Is there some history to Gloom's origins, also is Ted Archer famous?"It all started on the Internet, as many things do. A man known to many as Dan Danby bought some dial-up internet and after several years of typing random expletives into the address bar, he finally found an old website known as yabasic.co.uk. This was a precursor to the Dark Bit Factory fourums in that the DBF crew stole a ll the good ideas, simply renaming everything, stealing all the members, and changing the colour scheme.
Anyway, at the same time as this, there was a young man known as Edd Biduolope, from near Nothingham, who used to trick wild cats into coding demos for him, and then making huge profits from these demos. One day, Danby met Biduolope and they decided to form a demo group known as Byulope. This demo group sadly failed but the two went on to raise money for several charities by running in 12 marathons that year.
Afer the running season was over, they set to work on a new project which would become known as The Gloom. They worked on the first three episodes but after that they were sadly lost at sea and The Gloom was sold to the Ultrapaste Corporation which still runs all Gloom related sites today.
We do realise, Clyde, that we haven't answered the second part of your question, re: Ted Archer. This will have to wait until a later date when The Gloom, A History, returns.
