The 5000 officially began as a tribe shortly after Tribes was released, but the foundations were created much earlier. When visiting a friend at a local Bar and Restaurant, Joemomma5000 overheard an unruly customer bad-mouthing his friend. He turned and called the patron a Jizzcopter5000 and the insult was so ridiculous, the name stuck. That night Joemomma5000 and Jizzcopter5000 loaded Tribes 1, created their names (designed only to mutually grief people and to let people know they were playing 'as a team') and the Tribe that would eventually become The 5000 was born.