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Campbell took the dare and, together with Hamish Sinclair, Marathon superfans Gary Simmons and Claude Errera, and James Pillar and Nathan Kline (who helped with design), he opened the web site early in January 1999. In April, Bungie.org introduced its familiar subdomains devoted to each Bungie game: [http://pid.bungie.org pid.bungie.org], [https://marathon.bungie.org marathon.bungie.org], [http://myth.bungie.org myth.bungie.org], [http://oni.bungie.org oni.bungie.org], and blam.bungie.org (moved to [http://halo.bungie.org halo.bungie.org] once the game's name was revealed). | Campbell took the dare and, together with Hamish Sinclair, Marathon superfans Gary Simmons and Claude Errera, and James Pillar and Nathan Kline (who helped with design), he opened the web site early in January 1999. In April, Bungie.org introduced its familiar subdomains devoted to each Bungie game: [http://pid.bungie.org pid.bungie.org], [https://marathon.bungie.org marathon.bungie.org], [http://myth.bungie.org myth.bungie.org] (site down), [http://oni.bungie.org oni.bungie.org], and blam.bungie.org (moved to [http://halo.bungie.org halo.bungie.org] once the game's name was revealed). | ||
Hamish Sinclair and Matt Smith handled Pathways into Darkness and the massive Marathon Story page, Campbell and Simmons handled the rest of the Marathon subdomain, Forrest Camaranesi handled Myth, Campbell handled Oni (which was still in development), and Errera eventually handled the Halo subdomain. Miguel Chavez handled [http://bs.bungie.org bs.bungie.org], the Bungie Sightings page. The bungie.org domain came to be known as B.org for short, or sometimes simply Borg. | Hamish Sinclair and Matt Smith handled Pathways into Darkness and the massive Marathon Story page, Campbell and Simmons handled the rest of the Marathon subdomain, Forrest Camaranesi handled Myth, Campbell handled Oni (which was still in development), and Errera eventually handled the Halo subdomain. Miguel Chavez handled [http://bs.bungie.org bs.bungie.org], the Bungie Sightings page. The bungie.org domain came to be known as B.org for short, or sometimes simply Borg. | ||