Near the end of my days in Asteroid, old players started getting together in Voice Chatrooms, the latest technology and something nobody had ever done before. All I remember from that was having a good laugh at all the voices which for years we had just imagined (Nicodemus' voice was particularly amusing). Little did we know that voice communication would be a vital element of future video gaming.

The next game I played consistently online was Ghost Recon. I had bought Ghost Recon right when it came out but for some reason never even thought of it as a multiplayer possibility. When the Island Thunder expansion was released, I decided it would be a great time to give it a try. I became instantly hooked on the game, which had a massive internet following (100,000+ estimated regular players). My internet "nickname" had always been OZBORNE and it was supposed to be that in GR, however at some point I had made use of the offline-practice feature of the GR multiplayer (one of the genius aspects of it) and I had entered J. Hazard in place of defPlayer. It is believed that Jackson Hazard was born as my first character in Fallout. I started playing on UBI Soft's game thingie under the name J. Hazard and became involved with a regular server run by a guy named dudzcom. The name stuck.

I really sunk my teeth into Ghost Recon and sought mastery of it. One day while perusing one of the Ghost Recon websites I looked through a list of dedicated servers hoping to find some good ones, as I was getting sick of UBI's software. The first one I entered was the Black Sheep Retribution dedicated server, and it was in BSR that I was to find my first and only clan home in Ghost Recon.