5/22: Perfect Dark for the Nintendo 64 is released in America by Rareware.
5/28: The first batch of scores are submitted to the Pdark Leagues by Ngamer64 and others.
6/7: Ngamer creates a new geocities account, and puts up a web page with all of his times listed in a table.
6/8: The second competition begins, now with new player PerfectLight. Ngamer comes out on top after days of work on Attack Ship SA.
6/14: The third competition is started, this time it's combining the times of the 3 Area 51 levels in Agent. SnapDragon and ExpertGamer join the fray during this battle.
6/20: The server crash of Pdark leaves the 6 without a place to compete. Dozens of E-mails are sent out daily to inform each other of the latest times.
6/30: Total Agent time becomes all the rage.
6/30: The PAL version of PD is released in Europe and Australia.
7/6: New player ParagonX9 enters the group.
7/6: All pages linked, and "Elite" with a capital "E" used for the first time to describe the small group.
7/10: SnapDragon releases The Perfect Dark Elite Records Page to all 7 members.
7/15: Ngamer suggests that a message board be created to make talking easier than through E-mail.
7/16: ExpertGamer creates EZBoard message board for the Elite and posts first message. Also, the first new members of the Elite join. Snap's cousin Roco and Craig Makepeace (Shock) become the 8th and 9th men in.
7/17: Top Goldeneye player in the world joins, Sterling Neblett. Jason Summer is member 11.
7/19: Marshmallow joins the PD Elite.
7/20: Paragon discovers pause trick in Duel, everyone gets 0:03 in Agent.
8/2: Historic "Whoa! 3 new members in one day!" topic created by Ngamer.
8/11: PerfectLight becomes first man to retire from Perfect Dark, soon after becomes 1st to be removed from the Elite.
8/16: Snap is able to get auto-updates working every hour, on the hour.
8/17: The world's best Nintendo player, Steven Zwartjes, joins the Elite.
8/18: Chone discovers speech skipping.
8/18: Marsh finds competion in PA from Paragon, heated battles go on for weeks in Villa and other levels.
8/21: Ngamer makes historic post #2000 to the message boards.
8/22: New player ModNike posts a :27 in War!, heated debate breaks out on it's authenticity.
8/23: Huge milestone as Elite breaks 2 hour mark in total combined time.
8/23: Paragon creates his WR strat guide web site.
8/24: SquareGuru becomes first man to not be allowed into the Elite, due to his obviously fake times.
8/31: Infiltrater invents pause-spin trick in Duel, Snap gets 0:06 in SA.
8/31: Marsh's first set of WR movies put online.
9/2: Ngamer sets new AF1 A record of 0:58, becomes the longest-lasting WR of all time (non-Duel). (Well, used to be. It was broken by Expert on 2/16/01, after a full 164 days on top.)
9/4: Octoinky creates historic New WR's thread.
9/4: Dark Tim joins the Elite ranked higher than anyone else in history, #5 in points and #3 in total time.
9/5: Rankings page screwed for the first time, by Darren Frickel.
9/6: First "Maxed Times?" topic, by captZEEbo. Funny!
9/10: First solo-mission branch-off of the original Elite is born, the License To Kill league.
9/18: Combined Elite Agent time breaks 28:00 with Gohan's Rescue WR.
9/20: A 0:58 AF1 is the last record Snap needs to become the first man in history to hold every Agent WR.
9/23: Octoinky becomes first non-Founding Father to rise to the status of Moderator.
9/25: Octo creates the first Player of the Week awards page.
10/3: Elite breaks 100 members with addition of Karl Jobst.
10/4: Pdark.com comes back with a new system and a new World Records page. Snap adds their WRs to the Elite as a new player, *MrPdarkLeagues*.
10/10: *MrPdarkLeagues* starts claiming incredible new WRs, with nothing to stop him. Snap kicks him out, and Pdark's League begins it's long, slow fall to a bad joke.
10/26: Zelda: Majora's Mask released in the US. PD activity takes a huge hit for the next month, as 8/10 members do nothing but Majora.
12/14: This time, it's Paragon who does the impossible. 0:33 Defection A.
12/15: Elite rocked again, this time by former #1 Dark Tim admitting to lying on 15 of his times.
12/16: The first non-Founding Fathers become (and stick around as) moderators in the wake of Octo's removal. DarkHawk and Shock get the nod.
12/19: Duel 0:04 finally worth 0 points.
12/21: The University discovers and shuts down the auto-updates.
12/30: Paragon sets best WRY of all time. 2:51 Investigation PA.
1/26: Elite breaks 1:50:00 combined total time mark.
2/12: Paragon becomes first man in history to hold the WR for every PA level.
2/16: Sim Threat makes history by cutting a full :59 seconds off the Deep Sea SA WR, the biggest improvement in any level since mid-July.
2/26: Ngamer, Disco, and Expert work together to make The Skedar Jump a reality in A, SA, and even PA.
3/11: The Elite reaches the 150 member mark.
3/12: Carnski becomes the 2nd best new member of all time, behind only Dark Tim, with his debut at #8 in points and #5 in time.
3/14: Disco beats out DarkLight to pull ahead of Paragon and become the first new World Champion in points in a full 6 months.
3/24: Huge day for the Elite. Ngamer finally reveals his History page to the entire Elite in his post number 1,000. Also, Paragon celebrates the 6 month anniversary of becoming #1 in total time.
4/3: With only a few weeks left on his undergrad account, Snap moves the site to its new address at http://rareelite.hypermart.net/pd/elite.htm. Work begins on combining the Elite and Wes's GE World Rankings page together, under one updating system.
4/4: Snap does another big new member update, and this one makes the bottom drop out for the lowest ranked players, as they hit 0 total points for both Agent and Special Agent.
4/5: Paragon arrives at Disco's house, and the week "from Hell" begins. Paragon takes back the top spot in points as he unleashes his saved times from the past weeks. Then the #1 and 2 players get together with PerfectDarklich and captZEEbo for perhaps the most earth-shattering PD multi the world has even seen. They pull a shutout in challenge 30, 32-0, among other great feats.
4/6: The Goldeneye Elite is born, as Snap sets up the system so that Wes can run it himself. In the end he settles on 3dretreat as the page's new home.
4/22: Snap makes the announcement that he has now officially passed on his Elite updating responsibilities to Paragon.
4/24: The Elite does the unthinkable when Carnski set a new PAL-only WR on Maian A. The 1:46 total time mark is broken! This time most members are even more sure than 1:45 just isn't going to happen.
4/27: The PAL players continue to find new strats and set new WRs on stages throughout the month, until the calls for a ranking without them grew stronger and stronger. Finally Snap puts an end to the complaints by making the NTSC-only rankings.
6/8: Paragon starts a huge PD revival by using his newly-invented Defection trick to lower the WR to :15. (Days later he and Expert perfect it at :06.)
6/12: Paragon figures out the brilliant door-opening trick in Extraction, everyone cuts 15 seconds off their times.
6/14: Disco improves the Extraction WR just enough to break the 1:45:00 mark in total time. This time, everyone is sure 1:44 and beyond will fall.
6/17: Paragon works out a faster strat for Maian SA, severely lowering the total time yet again.
6/17: The lowest-ranked players finally reach 0 total points.
9/15: The Elite makes it's 3rd URL move, this time to goldeneye.3dretreat.com. And also, the Elite breaks the big 1:43:00 combined time mark.
9/18: The "greatest WR ever" is finally beaten, as DarkestMatt pulls of a 2:46 Investigation PA. (Paragon snatches back his record the following week.)
11/7: Again in LTK, Sucram becomes the first man to beat all 21 levels.
11/18: The Nintendo GameCube is released in North America. Overall NTSC playing takes a big hit due to the new system, but PAL continues on strong.
4/29: The big 1:41:00 time mark is shattered as Dark Avenger posts all his saved times to once again take the lead. However, this time he really blows the entire league out of the water by becoming first in every possible ranking. Members are evenly divided as to whether that huge 1:40 will ever be snapped. After all, it took 6 months and 4 days to drop from 1:42 to 1:41, making it by far the slowest minute cut in Elite history.
7/21: The message board reaches the 1,000 member mark! This goal is reached just 5 days after the board celebrated its two year birthday.
11/18: Karl's Attack Ship times are enough to push the Elite below the much anticipated 100 minute mark, of 1:40:00. Widespread rioting ensues.
11/29: SnapDragon's greatest PD accomplishment is finally equaled, as Karl becomes only the second man to hold every single Agent WR at one time.
11/30: ...But not for long, as GE wunderkid Bryan Bosshardt comes up with an insanity strat to make the single most sought after WR in PD, :26 War Agent, a reality. This put an end to the incredible 830 day reign of :27 on the oldest WR page.
12/23: Though it took a little bit longer, YE is able to accomplish his #1 goal, becoming the 7th-ever world's top player in points.