growing up on (well, around) the boards [Archive]

beastieangel01

07-08-2005, 12:21 PM

Freebasser

07-08-2005, 12:22 PM

You finally changed your avatar.

Good job (y)

King of Rock II

07-08-2005, 12:23 PM

I think I posted the exact same kind of stuff four years ago. When the twin towers were still standing and randy's deadications was scared to go outside and notorious lol was called the shah of iran.

So, for me, I probably didn't grow up. Or at least it doesn't show in my writing.

beastieangel01

07-08-2005, 12:23 PM

:mad:

QueenAdrock

07-08-2005, 12:46 PM

I first came on in 1998, when I was 14. But I started really posting later that year, when I was 15. So I'm in the same boat as you, Crys.

You're also the first avatar and title I remember from this board. You had a pink neon star and it said "Star Brite."

RaZoRbLaDe KiSs

07-08-2005, 12:51 PM

God, i hope im not growing up around this board.
I'll up retarded and crazy like the rest of you...

:o Come on, you know im playin' you know i love you guys, well, most of you, anyways... :p

beastieangel01

07-08-2005, 12:55 PM

^but, but, you already retarded and crazy ;)

by the way, that mad face was at FB.

I first came on in 1998, when I was 14. But I started really posting later that year, when I was 15. So I'm in the same boat as you, Crys.

You're also the first avatar and title I remember from this board. You had a pink neon star and it said "Star Brite."

Oh my lord. Star Brite? Yeah, that's 15 for you I suppose.

I feel honored that you remember me first of everyone though. Unless it's because you thought the avatar & title were retarded :p

DroppinScience

07-08-2005, 01:02 PM

I think I've visited the boards off and on since October 2002. Three-year anniversary coming up! :eek:

QueenAdrock

07-08-2005, 01:05 PM

Oh my lord. Star Brite? Yeah, that's 15 for you I suppose.

I feel honored that you remember me first of everyone though. Unless it's because you thought the avatar & title were retarded :p

You're forgetting I was 15 at the time, too. I was jealous of your awesomeness. ;)

RaZoRbLaDe KiSs

07-08-2005, 01:08 PM

I think I've visited the boards off and on since October 2002. Three-year anniversary coming up! :eek:

my one year is coming up!!

insertnamehere

07-08-2005, 01:15 PM

I've been here since march of 02, hmmm, so i was 15 as well. i remember venusvenus123 had that wizard of oz avatar, and mythago was the board badass, and dusty brain and sprewell tried to be just like him

Dr Deaf

07-08-2005, 01:21 PM

I am making too many posts today I know.

But seriously, I've been around on the BBMB since I was 15 years old. So much has happened since then. I am 21 now. I know that the changes have shown through posts here since I started. Even things from last year I sometimes cringe at or will slap my forehead and wonder what I was thinking :p

I don't know whether to find it interesting or pathetic that I've been around this long. Probably the latter. And yet, I stick around anyway. Mainly because I like some of you losers.

i was thinking like this the other day too. we've all kind of grown up together and experienced huge significant things in those years. i've seen people finish up high school and pick universities, get degrees and jobs in their fields! people turning 19/21 and having their first legal birthday piss-ups etc.

i find myself saying oh, yeah my friend in LA, san diego, san fran, redding, phuket, nyc and so forth. my friends wonder how i 'know' people all over the place. they seem quick to dismiss their significance when it's learned that they're 'internet people'. like somehow they don't count. just because i haven't met some of them, doesn't mean i won't. it probably just means i haven't been over that way yet.

this post reads like a nightmare, im sorry but i refuse to edit it.

beastieangel01

07-08-2005, 01:21 PM

You're forgetting I was 15 at the time, too. I was jealous of your awesomeness. ;)

haha. you must have been especially jealous of the spelling B-R-I-T-E

*shakes head

cosmo105

07-08-2005, 01:25 PM

i find myself saying oh, yeah my friend in LA, san diego, san fran, redding, phuket, nyc and so forth. my friends wonder how i 'know' people all over the place. they seem quick to dismiss their significance when it's learned that they're 'internet people'. like somehow they don't count. just because i haven't met some of them, doesn't mean i won't. it probably just means i haven't been over that way yet.
i do the same thing! i'll say "i know this guy in canada" or "this friend of mine in florida" and people wonder how i'm so well-traveled.

beastieangel01

07-08-2005, 01:30 PM

i was thinking like this the other day too. we've all kind of grown up together and experienced huge significant things in those years. i've seen people finish up high school and pick universities, get degrees and jobs in their fields! people turning 19/21 and having their first legal birthday piss-ups etc.

yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?

And people wonder why it seems kind of clique-ish here. I think it's completely unintentional. We all just ended up being some kind of pseudo family by being around for so long, so we end up forming relationships, friendship or otherwise.

cosmo105

07-08-2005, 01:32 PM

INBREEDING!

CiaoBella

07-08-2005, 01:32 PM

I would love to meet you all someday...when I travel I think who on the BBMB lives in that state / country that I could party with ...seriously. ;)

Dr Deaf

07-08-2005, 01:36 PM

i do the same thing! i'll say "i know this guy in canada" or "this friend of mine in florida" and people wonder how i'm so well-traveled.

10.02.2005 it all comes together. :D

i kinda made this statement a few times: i'd never travel to anywhere i didn't 'know' someone.

locals know whats hot more so that a brochure or travel agent. plus most folks are happy to let you crash at their place. they might offer to pick up at the airport. you take care of the house while they're at work, have the dishes done, dinner prepped. treat them to movies and drinks and everyone's a winner.

(y)

yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?

And people wonder why it seems kind of clique-ish here. I think it's completely unintentional. We all just ended up being some kind of pseudo family by being around for so long, so we end up forming relationships, friendship or otherwise.

word is bond.

cosmo105

07-08-2005, 01:41 PM

ScarySquirrel

07-08-2005, 02:03 PM

I don't even know how long I've been here. I just know it's been a while. Longer than two years... I think I started posting here between my junior and senior year of high school. I graduated in 2002, so I might have started posting sometime around 1999 maybe 2000?

Wow, to think I've been here five, maybe six, years... now that's a crazy thought. That's almost a decade, dudes.

Nuzzolese

07-08-2005, 02:10 PM

For as long as Echewta has been here, why does he feel so distant still? Always at arm's length. Who IS Chewtles?

monkey

07-08-2005, 02:29 PM

ive discussed this with zippo a lot. we've "known" each other since 1997 or 98, but never met. we just have a great friendship (other than when she smells), and we have so many things in common in our lives.

....it's like we're meant to be.....

Echewta

07-08-2005, 02:43 PM

For as long as Echewta has been here, why does he feel so distant still? Always at arm's length. Who IS Chewtles?

Most people on the bored scare me, sorry :(

CiaoBella

07-08-2005, 02:45 PM

And I do and get the same things. Ill say "Oh yeah...my friend is a vegan and she gave me this really great recipe for Vegan Chimichangas" or "This lawyer I know is totally getting married and it is so Rad!" And people look at me crosseyed then rolleyed when I tell them these are my 'internet' friends. Like i made you guys up or something. :\

I say my friend...so in so...as well...then my real friends will be like who? And then I blush...

Nuzzolese

07-08-2005, 02:48 PM

you actually say things like "totally getting married and it is so rad!"? Maybe people look at you weird for talking like that. :p

ToucanSpam

07-08-2005, 02:52 PM

I have not been here long, only about a year, and it just feels normal to post now. I kind of feel like everyone's younger brother (to those who actually like me), and yeah I met someone ultra special to me here. There's people here I would love to meet someday, because some of the things I've learned have helped me. I have a lot of love for this board. :D :D :D

I totally sound like an after-school special........

King PSYZ

07-08-2005, 03:14 PM

i'm already discussing the attire with ms. ruggs and making the travel plans with sir chewsalot. :D

i'm glad this place is here, and not just because of steger. i love all the friends i've made on here. aww. *gush*
this could be the greatest event linked to these boards ever!
should i wear my bright greeen outfit?
;)

mp-seventythree

07-08-2005, 04:52 PM

I think Crystal was one of the first people I spoke to when I first came here in 2000. She was really friendly, as were most people on the board.

Oh how times change...(not meaning Crystal, she's still cool)

ps Does anyone remember Kittyscorp from around that time? She was actually the first person I ever communicated with on the BBMB.

beastieangel01

07-08-2005, 04:56 PM

:D I am happy to know that I've made some peoples arrival here a nice one. I tend to be friendly, unless you smell like cheese of course.

mp-seventythree

07-08-2005, 04:59 PM

*Thanks God he doesn't smell of cheese*

King PSYZ

07-08-2005, 05:07 PM

i think i smelled more of 50,000 peoples sweat when we met crystal :p

monkey

07-08-2005, 05:10 PM

:D I am happy to know that I've made some peoples arrival here a nice one. I tend to be friendly, unless you smell like cheese of course.

:( is that why you left so quickly?

rirv

07-08-2005, 05:10 PM

I'd just turned 15 when I first posted on here and now I'm almost 20... I'm a completely different person from then obviously, and even year to year, as Crystal said, I've changed. I guess it's different for old men like Echewta, but for younger people who are changing more it's a bit weird.

mp-seventythree

07-08-2005, 05:23 PM

Us oldies just feel the time going by quicker

King PSYZ

07-08-2005, 05:43 PM

shit yeah, pretty crazy how much time has passed for a lot of us here. i think i'm around 3+ years here now.

I started as a concert photgrapher/writer for my own zine and now I am in the auto biz???
who would have seen that comin?

King of Rock II

07-08-2005, 05:45 PM

thats going to be in my signature.

i don't mean anything by it though. i just thought it was funny.

Echewta

07-08-2005, 05:49 PM

OH rirv!

GreenEarthAl

07-08-2005, 05:52 PM

When I first got here I was several years celibate.

Now I'm polyamorous (and nearly celibate still), but still... polyamorous. Who'd have seen that comin?

Echewta

07-08-2005, 05:55 PM

I still treasure the battle GEA and I had via photo manipulation. Who would have ever thought two stunning and overachieving men would come to digital vs. like that?

But its funny being on the board for a number of years, most people seem ageless. Always the same.

Plus, I find it funny that some echewta things linger around here and there. TM, poll option, little known fact, and umm, yea other things...

Auton

07-08-2005, 05:59 PM

BA01, you have the greatest avatar of all time, in a nerdy way (y)

cosmo105

07-08-2005, 06:00 PM

Plus, I find it funny that some echewta things linger around here and there. TM, poll option, little known fact, and umm, yea other things...
like your stench

Echewta

07-08-2005, 06:02 PM

*lifts up arm*
*takes a deep wiff*
ahhhh

pfchangy

cosmo105

07-08-2005, 06:04 PM

spicy eggplant = god <3s me

King PSYZ

07-08-2005, 06:16 PM

thats going to be in my signature.

i don't mean anything by it though. i just thought it was funny.
no doubt, although I actually make money now where as before i sorta "suffered for my art" and all.

shit i'm debt free now and looking to buy a home possibly in the next 2-3 months.

King of Rock II

07-08-2005, 06:19 PM

i wonder if i'll be around another 4 years.

probably, yes. but not as intensively. i will be around but i will not be around very intensively.

Mr. Boomin'Granny

07-08-2005, 06:46 PM

I've been here, holy shit it's been 5 years.
damn.

i want to be a mod again, to get those damn "ban this dude for being lame" emails.

good ol days

hey crys..
remember ty?

GreenEarthAl

07-08-2005, 06:58 PM

I still treasure the battle GEA and I had via photo manipulation. Who would have ever thought two stunning and overachieving men would come to digital vs. like that?

Yeah, I still have that sitting around on my hard drive.

When I was first hanging around I remember Paul Nice was always talking about AWB in every thread and Rirv was zalways chiming in with how the one beat he made was the best on their album.

I should throw my AWB CD in the CD player for old times' sake. Don't suppose I have time to listen to it, but I could... you know... throw it in there. For old times' sake.

insertnamehere

07-08-2005, 07:44 PM

i wish that allllllll the old posts (like pre-crash even) were still here. thad be interesting to look back on.

rirv

07-09-2005, 02:44 PM

Mine WAS the best on their album!! :mad:

GreenEarthAl

07-09-2005, 03:06 PM

Word. It is pretty hot. You da man rirv.

rirv

07-09-2005, 03:44 PM

I'm da man :cool:

miss soul fire

07-09-2005, 03:46 PM

When I first got here I was several years celibate.

Now I'm polyamorous (and nearly celibate still), but still... polyamorous. Who'd have seen that comin?
I still can't picture you as a poly!!! :p

HEIRESS

07-09-2005, 04:22 PM

this place saw me through university

thanks.

adam_f

07-09-2005, 04:49 PM

I actually did visit the boards way back when (THE 90'S, YO) but I didn't start posting until last year. I recognized some of you guys, and it was kinda weird talking to you. Now you're just a bunch of my loser friends. Take it or leave it.

Bob

07-09-2005, 05:32 PM

i haven't been counting the years i've been here, but i've probably been around 5-6 years as well...i don't know how old i was when i started, probably 15-16, now i'm 21 (as you may well know), so yeah, this place has seen me through some of the formative years of my life. what a bad idea that was, i could have been out talking to people, or learning to play an instrument or something. oh well. not much to do about that now. here i am, as i am, until i'm not

zippo

07-09-2005, 07:24 PM

i dont remember alot of the names from the beastielist, all i can remember is vutom15 since he would sometimes start up a riot and people would bitch at him. so that was around 98 where i first started talking to pauli and some other cool people, although i didnt really post answers through that huge ass email list, i just read them and hoped the beastie boys would go to the place i was then living at.
and now this place, this place is hilarious. and its the first time (apart from pauli) that ive talked to so many online people for so long and got to "know" them and all through here or wherever. its a great habit.

Medellia

07-09-2005, 07:32 PM

10.02.2005 it all comes together. :D
Hey, that's my b-day! (y)

zippo

07-09-2005, 07:41 PM

Hey, that's my b-day! (y)

add my mom´s bday to the list also

QueenAdrock

07-09-2005, 08:11 PM

I've been here, holy shit it's been 5 years.
damn.

i want to be a mod again, to get those damn "ban this dude for being lame" emails.

good ol days

hey crys..
remember ty?

I DO...barely.

TurdBerglar

07-09-2005, 08:13 PM

hahahaha

ty

p-branez

07-10-2005, 12:33 PM

shit, i was the same way. i've been here since i was 14. then i can remember coming home from school and going straight to the computer to post. now there's shit that's way more important.

i was always so excited to come home and look at the new threads. shit, i was a dork. now i've been on here about 5 times in the last 2 months.

i've got a girlfriend. a job. i'm applying to college. i've got a lot going on now.

beastieangel01

07-10-2005, 12:40 PM

:( is that why you left so quickly?

when I was gone for a bit it was for another reason entirely. i.e. getting flack for certain things. That and well, I wasn't around much anyway due to being super busy. Now, I'm still busy, but I have the internet at work ;) hehehe

BA01, you have the greatest avatar of all time, in a nerdy way (y)

thanks :D Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle are two of my most favorite games ever.

hey crys..
remember ty?

hahahaha. *cough* Yes. :)

BOBBY DIGITAL

07-10-2005, 01:09 PM

hahahaha. *cough* Yes. :)

Is the cough to suggest that there are still remnants of ty lingering?

beastieangel01

07-10-2005, 01:27 PM

Is the cough to suggest that there are still remnants of ty lingering?

the cough was in regards to something else.

I don't think Ty even comes around here anymore. I talked to him on AIM a while back. Now I can't remember what his AIM name is, so who knows.

QweenOfBoggle

07-11-2005, 09:31 AM

hahaha, I remember ty...good times. is that site still up?

p.s. December 2000...going on 5 years haha, I suck

Echewta

07-11-2005, 10:18 AM

Buddyhead board battle was the only one worth it.

Nuzzolese

07-11-2005, 10:43 AM

Buddyhead board battle was the only one worth it.

What happened?

Nuzzolese

07-11-2005, 10:44 AM

I still treasure the battle GEA and I had via photo manipulation. Who would have ever thought two stunning and overachieving men would come to digital vs. like that?
...

I especially liked the cookie eating part.

beastieangel01

07-11-2005, 01:12 PM

hahaha, I remember ty...good times. is that site still up?

p.s. December 2000...going on 5 years haha, I suck

I don't know if that site is still around. I think it might be, but on a small scale. Like a portfolio or something. I can't even remember the URL.

Echewta

12-31-2009, 02:20 PM

Who was Ty?

TAL

01-01-2010, 07:08 AM

He's was the guy on her nipples.

Bob

01-01-2010, 07:11 AM

Adam

01-01-2010, 09:29 AM

I think must of just hit my 10 years. The first time I got the web at home I was just after Christmas 1999, although had it since 1996 at work. And I know this was one of the first sites I visited - maybe I was here before at work but became regular poster at home.

Like woah - 10 years dude.

insertnamehere

01-02-2010, 11:55 PM

i think im going on 8 years -- granted im not around here much anymore. there was a point where i got sort of out of the loop and couldnt keep track of who changed their names to what and who was who, etc. i still <3 a lot of you losers :p

Audio.

01-03-2010, 06:57 AM

wouldnt have thought a message board would have that much history honestly with the same people. I mean when I first joined I wouldnt have thought of it or me still posting years on.

Adam

01-03-2010, 07:24 AM

wouldnt have thought a message board would have that much history honestly with the same people. I mean when I first joined I wouldnt have thought of it or me still posting years on.

I'm sure there is other boards out there but this one has always seemed different - even in slow times its still nice to see the odd chit chat.

I think this generation helps to. Most of us here was listening to the beasties in the 80s-90s, they aren't a new band and thus don't get many 12-14 year olds coming and falling in love and then threaten suicide cus the album is late (actually I don't read Beastie-General but I assume not).

Anyway, we grew up with technology rather than it already existing - most of us know there was a time before the web and if this was one of the first places you came to when you first came to when you first logged on then it'll also have an nostalgia value to it :)

rirv

01-03-2010, 07:40 AM

Coming up to my nine-year anniversary. When I joined I'd just turned 15.

paul jones

01-03-2010, 11:36 AM

I remember when the board was down one time and Kate D made a temporary one and fern posted a picture of his cock

Dorothy Wood

01-03-2010, 03:01 PM

yap, 10 years for me. nutz!

mickill

01-03-2010, 03:27 PM

I was only 28 when I started growing up on the boards.

cj hood

01-03-2010, 04:42 PM

original member of the alt.beastieboys mb.....'96 bitches!

insertnamehere

01-03-2010, 06:17 PM

I remember when the board was down one time and Kate D made a temporary one and fern posted a picture of his cock

i missed that one. how was it?

camo

01-03-2010, 06:26 PM

i missed that one. how was it?

probably small and blurry.

Adam

01-03-2010, 06:40 PM

How do you know it was his cock? There is plenty of drunk idiots posting pics of cocks on websites, could be any1s...

You want a toe? I'll get you a toe!

Randetica

01-04-2010, 03:52 AM

i heard his cock is mighty ugly

well as for me i can only say that i was straight mature from the start on, facefucks!

Adam

01-04-2010, 03:55 AM

^
I don't a penis will ever be described as beautiful. They are all pretty ugly.

Randetica

01-04-2010, 04:03 AM

^
I don't a penis will ever be described as beautiful. They are all pretty ugly.

yeah but some are uglier than others

lil j was/is THE cock slut and she was the one who told us how ugly it was, so that should mean a lot!

thank god ive never seen bbmb genitals, had a lot of chances though..

Caribou

01-04-2010, 06:57 PM

I've also been here for quite a while. 5,5 years. Much longer than I ever imagined when I joined.
It was a bit before my 19th birthday I think and I have changed a lot since that time. I used to be very insecure and rather depressed. Typical teenage emo behaviour. Now I have tons of confidence and my life is at a point I never thought it would be 5 years ago.
Also, this MB got me together with my first boyfriend, got me to fly to the UK a bunch of times, made my father think I joined a cult and taught me some valuable life lessons.

There's also this Dutch messageboard that I've been on since '02 and it's almost painful to read my old messages there. Sooo depressing.
It's amazing how much I've changed.
Last week I met up with a bunch of 'oldskoolers' in Utrecht (25! biggest MB meeting EVAR!) and it was so much fun. It's strange that after all these years I now hear the posters' voices when I read their messages. :D