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'''Radio F Software Headquarters''' (abbreviated, advertised, and better known as '''RFSHQ''') was a ''Robot Arena 2'' community created and managed by [[Radio F Software]]. RFSHQ launched on February 12, 2004 following RFS' departure from staff at [[AceUplink]]. It began featuring humorous content on May 9, 2004 with the inclusion of the column "The NES Reviews". At its peak, RFSHQ was within the top 100,000 websites online according to Alexa.com.
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'''Radio F Software Headquarters''' (abbreviated, advertised, and better known as '''RFSHQ''') was a ''Robot Arena 2'' community created and managed by [[Radio F Software]]. RFSHQ launched on February 12, 2004 following RFS' departure from staff at [[AceUplink]]. It began featuring humorous content on May 9, 2004 with the inclusion of the column "The NES Reviews". At its peak, RFSHQ was within the top 100,000 websites online according to Alexa.com and featured over 10,000 registered users.
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RFS left the RFSHQ project in July 2008 over personal matters. The website's forums went offline not long thereafter and as of 2014 the website is still online as a broken content archive.
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RFS left the RFSHQ project in July 2008 over personal matters. The website's forums went offline not long thereafter. As of 2014 the RFSHQ.com domain redirects to an archive of the website's content hosted by Twilight Foundry.
    
During its lifetime RFSHQ was notable for several small milestones. The website served as the testing ground for the social gaming platform that ultimately became TrackMill Games, it was the first website in the world to feature downloads of full episodes of ''BattleBots'', and a humorous viral graphic created by RFS ultimately led to the Six Flags company temporarily retiring their Mr. Six mascot.
 
During its lifetime RFSHQ was notable for several small milestones. The website served as the testing ground for the social gaming platform that ultimately became TrackMill Games, it was the first website in the world to feature downloads of full episodes of ''BattleBots'', and a humorous viral graphic created by RFS ultimately led to the Six Flags company temporarily retiring their Mr. Six mascot.
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==Legacy==
 
==Legacy==
Prior to the establishment of GameTechMods, RFSHQ was the largest and longest-running RA2 fansite on the Internet. Despite re-emerging as a comedy website a mere three months after its launch the website failed to reach outside of its original audience and ended up keeping discussion forums for RA2 open in its community. The website was fondly known as "Radio Shack" among the [[Advanced Robot Combat]] community. During his tenure as site administrator RFS authored over 100 articles and produced several dozen original videos as site content.
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Prior to the establishment of GameTechMods, RFSHQ was the largest and longest-running RA2 fansite on the Internet. Despite re-emerging as a comedy website a mere three months after its launch the website struggled to reach outside of its original audience and ended up keeping discussion forums for RA2 open in its community. The website was fondly known as "Radio Shack" among the [[Advanced Robot Combat]] community. During his tenure as site administrator RFS authored over 100 articles and produced several dozen original videos as site content.
    
As of 2014, RFSHQ's library of articles has been absorbed into the larger archives of the media group Twilight Foundry. The archive is incomplete due to lost backup media and missing directories on the former RFSHQ website.
 
As of 2014, RFSHQ's library of articles has been absorbed into the larger archives of the media group Twilight Foundry. The archive is incomplete due to lost backup media and missing directories on the former RFSHQ website.
    
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