I've been a member here for 15 yrs?

[JEDI]

I was lurking the hot deals in 1999 prior to joining. Back then, that's all it was about....Trying to get as much tech for as little money possible on a college budget.

Freaking CouponGate at the beginning of this century nerfed the HotDeals forum

and it's been a graveyard ever since

 

[JM Aggie08]

Closing in on 9 years myself...incredible how time flies and things change.

Then:15 year old loud mouth who was trying his best to impress a bunch of strangers. Marching band, my first 'love', trying to get my driver's permit, no clue what I wanted to do long-term (but what 15 y/o does?).

Now: 24 and happily engaged, working as a systems analyst at my dream company, and just purchased my first home.

I cringe while reading my first posts on the board...

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Can't remember what my first post here was. Must've been looking for some help putting a PIII system together

 

[Geekbabe]

I was lurking the hot deals in 1999 prior to joining. Back then, that's all it was about....Trying to get as much tech for as little money possible on a college budget.

Yes! Hitachi monitor 😀

 

[dethman]

a/s/l?

 

[manimal]

you know your old if you remember coupongate and Geocities.

Congrats on being old like the rest of us!


Another thought other than dimentia right now its the best time to be an old person! In a decade we will have VR that is good enough that even if we end up getting dimentia we will be able to relive star wars and godfather repeatedly and appreciate then for new! Now if you keep your marbles you will probably be able to buy accesories for your VR console to keep you busy till your heart goes out.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Starting to feel like "The Leftovers"......

 

[ChairShot]

gratz

 

[jlee]

jlee
Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: AZ
Posts: 44,407

wait.. never noticed u had 44k posts?!

u post from your cruiser?

I had 17k when they redid the forums a few years back, and there was some snafu that doubled my postcount so I went from 17k to 34k. Legit count is around 27k.

I've been in IT for over 2 years now. Lots of time to nef.

 

[Triumph]

Noob

User ID 1203?

Noob.

 

[Triumph]

Freaking CouponGate at the beginning of this century nerfed the HotDeals forum

and it's been a graveyard ever since

Coupongate has nothing on the wounded monitor children.

 

[John Connor]

The first forum I have ever signed up for was back in 2003 at Radioreference.com and I've been a member ever since. I'm currently a member of 4 other forums. Been on the Internet since '97.

 

[Homerboy]

<-- checks join date....

 

[Cappuccino]

How old are you may I ask?

 

[SSSnail]

Next year it will be 15 for me as well... damn time flies...

 

[Mermaidman]

Pics?

I coulda sworn that GB was brunette . . . :hmm:

 

[SKORPI0]

Wow, 15 years. Hard to believe.
Hopefully we'll be lucky enough and in good health for more years/while the forum still exist.

 

[Bartman39]

15 years...? Damn...:thumbsup:

I was around early in 1999 but had been online since 1994 with a monster Pentium 90...

 

[Kadarin]

I'm such a noob, I missed the good ol' days here...

 

[TheVrolok]

October 9th 1999. That's when the forums switched over and I had to register again. I was still in college and living with my parents.

And had a significantly smaller video game collection?

 

[vi edit]

A college degree, a marriage, 2 kids, and 5 states later I'm still here.

Wow. *Group hug*

 

[AdamK47]

User ID 1203?

Noob.

User ID 250?

Noob.

 

[MongGrel]

Scarey how time flies, isn't it ?

 

[AdamK47]

And had a significantly smaller video game collection?

There have been 15 years full of good releases since then.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Am I a part of your life? :wub: