Join Date

[insertnamehere]

This seems to have come up a few times in the past week or so, people mentioning how they've been here for forever. So I propose that in this thread everyone pre-board crash posts their actual join date (or an appoximation), along with former names they may have used.

March 2002 as insertnamehere --- for a short time i had an accent on the i and an umlaut on the a due to difficulty logging in to my original account

I believe my first avatar was a kitten inside of a sandwich, and my custom title was "cat sammich"

[Lyman Zerga]

october/ 26 / 2000

randy's dedications/qdrop

[Bob]

i can't remember when i originally got here but my very very first name was johnny ryall, then i was mike yauchovitz, then bob

i think the board was blue when i first started posting...then it became green? is that about right?

[insertnamehere]

yeah i seem to remember green... hmmmmm

i remember once when you were mike yauchovitz we had some ort of battle of wits that involved a discussing about hotdogs being partially blue or green or something...

anyways, i always thought you were a really funny guy.

[insertnamehere]

oh yeah there was a light blue deal when tt5b came out, too

[TAL]

I've always been TAL, and I made my first post in January 1999.

[cubsfirstplace]

Originally Posted by Lyman Zerga

october/ 26 / 2000

randy's dedications/qdrop

damn, how do you remember the exact date? do you have some kind of photographic memory??

[Drederick Tatum]

August 2001 is when things started going wrong.

[roosta]

i lurked as "Ghost Face Killah" in 2001/2002, but only posted twice I think. Then reregistered in 2004...

[BangkokB]

My first high jinx w/ Beastie Boys website was before I knew of the Message Board: I had just bought my 1st computer since my Coleco Adam back in the mid 80's. 1st Website I went to was Dust Brothers then I went to BB message chat w/o knowing of the concept of the Power of the BBMB way back on Dec 31ist 1999/2000 countdown creating much panic as a hand wringing the sky is falling and that the Christ would come back. I thought I was the 1st Troll

I moved to Thailand and around January of 2001 the wheels came off of my job and I once again found myself on the chat. It was Mythago that gave me the secret handshake about BBMB. And once I ventured in the Devil blew up and I created peace and harmony since that glorious day. My 1st thread was about my stance on women's rights to rent out their private parts and that Prostitution should be legal. It's been downhill since

I've always been BangkokB even when I moved to Coca Rista for a year bc I love it here-Bangkok

[Lyman Zerga]

Originally Posted by cubsfirstplace

damn, how do you remember the exact date? do you have some kind of photographic memory??

ive seen that join date for about 3 years on my profile, it's pretty much the only information my alzheimer left me

[DIGI]

Started as bobbydigital..........hmmmmmmmmmmm........not sure when. Early turn of the century, maybe? Then I posted as Metatron One for about 13 seconds and then on to digi.

[b-grrrlie]

I remember checking the site out in 1999 as I started going to school and had internet access
(more than just checkin mail and stuff for 15 mins maximum at Metro's stall at Gallerian).
I remember saving "loads" of Beastie Boys pics on floppy discs
I don't think I registered until I moved back home and got my own computer, around 2001 I think...
on a very slow dial-up connection, so I wasn't here that much.
I was mainly in the BG at first, my way to BF was via Other Music, and jabumbo's threads about record collections alphabetically.

Oh yeah and I had the same avatar (Yauch playing acoustic guitar) until last summer or so...

[ScarySquirrel]

I'm going to take a guess and say... mid-1998. I honestly have no idea... it's been a while though.

I remember the infoPOP boards. I remember when it was all Grand Royal type stuff and we even had a BS2000 board which kll was a moderator of for a while. Then the Buddyhead folks were here for a while and Sarky (read: Dorothy Woods) was totally on all their jocks. Jimmy Pringles was the most popular Buddyhead poster and one of the few to actually cross over onto our boards.

Then I feel like we made the switch to vBulletin. And I really like these boards and the layout... Blah, blah, blah. The TT5b color scheme (light blue/white-ish) and now this stuff.

[afronaut]

Hmm, I'd say sometime between march-may 2001. I was Fred Durst, and then I was something else, and then I was afronaut, and then I was something else, and then something else again, and then I was afronaut again.

[ericlee]

same join date as appears. What, march or may 04. Same screen name and my first avatar was Hammerhead from Star Wars, followed by Marty Feldmen- eye poppin big boobs GIF.

[alruggs]

Join date as seen above. I think I joined after going to the Jam Master Jay Benefit and my Beastie interest was renewed. I believe it was the olive green board then.

[insertnamehere]

wow, april 2003 actually = april 2003