I’ve been reading this forum every day for over 20 years

[Oaf]

November 2002….

Windows XP was a newfangled thing.
Broadband was 512 kilobit.
Our PCs had megabytes of ram, floppy disk drives and GPUs that didn’t use the same amount of electricity as a kettle.
We were making games for mobile phones with 96x65 pixel displays and 35kb of ram, sold via dodgy geezers who forgot to pay you; or Java applet games (“The Sims Pinball”).
Fax machines were still in use.
Monitors were still CRTs.

A lot has changed, not least my trouser size

[Rhythm]

Your avatar here confused the fuck out of me. I was sat thinking how much Ian Livingstone looks like Eddie Marsan

Congrats on the double decade. I have another year and a bit before I qualify for that badge :-)

[Deckard]

Yeah next year for me too - Feels like wandering into my local warm comfortable library as a lad - always a nice place to go and chill and absorb with the odd dodgy character and the occasional chance of raised voices !

Incidentally almost exactly the same length on my favourite torrent site !

[TFO]

I clocked through 20 years at the arse end of last year.
Not been on every day, but this place is like a comfortable pair of old shoes

[merman]

Your avatar here confused the fuck out of me. I was sat thinking how much Ian Livingstone looks like Eddie Marsan

Congrats on the double decade. I have another year and a bit before I qualify for that badge :-)

Eddie narrated an interactive version of Deathtrap Dungeon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1191 ... Adventure/

[Dvorak]

This here was always there.
Since the beginning.
The Pangea of everything, IIRC.

Then again, what are 20 years.

[gilesgoat]

This here was always there.
Since the beginning.
The Pangea of everything, IIRC.

Then again, what are 20 years.

Each cycle,
the forum is re-created,
it exists, it existed, it will exist,
eternal, in the stream of things,
you'll find the floating "MA DIO" surrounded by the holy ""
now and forever ...

[Foozwah]

Turns out my 20 year milestone here ticked over at the end of May last year...

I haven't been here every day - there was probably even a year or so when I took a break and didn't visit at all - but I usually pop in every day or two to skim and occasionally post. I've met so few people here IRL (the few I did seem to have faded from the scene, as it were - SilverBrumby, abducta, Bluey, gee) but I think of you all as a kind of extended family of mutant half-siblings. In a good way!

To misquote the Dead, "What a long, strange trip it's been.... and continues to be!"

[Whiteball]

November 2002….

Windows XP was a newfangled thing.
Broadband was 512 kilobit.
Our PCs had megabytes of ram, floppy disk drives and GPUs that didn’t use the same amount of electricity as a kettle.
We were making games for mobile phones with 96x65 pixel displays and 35kb of ram, sold via dodgy geezers who forgot to pay you; or Java applet games (“The Sims Pinball”).
Fax machines were still in use.
Monitors were still CRTs.

A lot has changed, not least my trouser size

Apparently, fax machines are still very much in use today by many many companies, especially in legal firms I was told.

Been here many years although I visited and read stuff for a few years before finally registering.
Is still a nice place to come because it is serene and unspoilt which can't be said for most of 'the web' these days.

[WiteWulf]

Grrrr....you all going on about how totes amazeballs forums are....usenet's where it's at

Srsly, though, I'll be 20 in sheep years next year. I came around here when Jeff was posting regularly about Project Unity on the Gamecube, as I'd recently picked one up. Stuck around because of the (generally) fluffy vibes and jolly nice ppl.

Attended a couple of RVs in Oxford, formed some very strong friendships with ppl I still chatter with over various mediums online. YY ppl are good ppl.

People come and people go, YakYak (fortunately) appears to be a constant

[Stephen]

Hmm - closer to my 21st than 20th. Crazy, I guess my avatar is approaching legal drinking age! You are right in that a lot has changed. VM Labs had recently gone under, some cool Pocket PC games were being released (Gridrunner++, I still have the Arse on Fire edition). Glad to see that games are still coming out.

[SuperMappy]

15 years for me. Is it ok to feel old yet?

[zip accident]

I've certainly missed months, I was offline for ten or so a couple of years ago, but I sometimes check more than once per day. I have been here since 2005 apparently.