Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jeff Veasey launched the site on the 5th of November 1995 as a small website called the Video Game FAQ Archive. The original platform hosted just ten pages containing about one hundred guides sourced from Andy Eddy's FTP archive.
CNET Networks acquired GameFAQs for US$2.2 million along with two other unrelated websites on the 6th of May 2003. Veasey announced this merger to users on the 3rd of June 2003 while clarifying that user-submitted content remained under the authors' ownership.
By February 2009, the site hosted over forty-nine thousand guides and one hundred thirteen thousand one hundred ninety-four reviews. As of 2012, this number increased to over fifty-six thousand guides covering twenty-one thousand six hundred thirty-nine unique games.
During October 2009, an average of eighty-four thousand eight hundred fifty-three unique logins occurred daily across sixty thousand individual boards. These boards often became social hubs known as secret or dead boards where posts mostly remain plain text with some HTML mark-up used for bold and italics tags.
Allen Tyner who uses the username SBAllen served as lead administrator for twenty years until stepping down on the 18th of October 2023. He had been employed with the site since 2004 when he took over from Veasey before announcing that Devin Morgan was hired as another administrator on the 7th of May 2012.