Old-timers from the "old forum"

[DRR]

I don't mean old age-wise!

It just occurred to me that this fall will mark the 12th year anniversary of when I started using the "old forum that needs not be named." It was fall of 1997 and I had just started to switch over to Mac - scored a pretty good deal on a 9600/350. Mainly back then the old forum was a technical, troubleshooting resource. Still very much a community, but much less focused.

Eventually I moved over here in the big '05 migration... and so it continues.

12 years... by far my longest membership of any forum I visit regularly.

Any other old-timers? Give a shout-out.

[Doc]

Remember back when you didn't have to register to post?

What year did that change? I was posting regularly -- anonymously -- for a couple of years before registration was required.

[Harbourmaster]

I started lurking around that time but since I was a noob I didn't post anything untill late 99 or early 2000 IIRC

[Kramerica]

I was over there too, under a different name. Still visit the site often, but rarely the forum.

[microchip]

Would have been 6th grade, so...2002 is when I would have started lurking..

Damn, I'm old. 7 years.

[ztirffritz]

I think that I'm at about 6 or 7 years.

edit: I just looked over at Dealmac. My first post was 4/20/04 so I guess it is more like 5 years.

[Gareth]

Oldest post I could find of mine was June '09: "Is there an adapter that lets one use a regular fax machine (i.e. one that isn't multi-function, so it only has telephone jacks) as a printer?"

Nobody answered it back then. Anyone want to now? : ) Though I prefer to forget my stupid questions. If only I could remember why I needed to know that.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I first started posting "over there" in early 1998. Shame that it had to come to an end.

[bwicklander]

Geez went to the old forum and looked up what I commented on - I've started back in 98 too.

[bwicklander]

ztirffritz wrote:
I think that I'm at about 6 or 7 years.

edit: I just looked over at Dealmac. My first post was 4/20/04 so I guess it is more like 5 years.

Dealmac servers took a hard crash and they lost lots of posts so they just started fresh - so it could be 6-7