Actively posting since the last big GAF server crash (June 2004) and lurking 1 year before that. I did recognize some familiar names posting on the newsgroups before that.
I've been lurking here since before the Dreamcast. I started posting shortly after, but quit for some reason. Now I just post whenever I'm in the mood. I guess I just have anti-social issues with Internet forums. Well, possibly that, and I hate my current username.
Nowadays I just driveby political posts and try to snark it up some to keep me from not dying from boredom at work. I don't really play consoles at all anymore, and my PC gaming is down a whole bunch outside of MMOing for a couple hours a night.
96 or 97. Back in the times of The Rock and horrible, horrible flame wars. I posted as:
KiiLA
Duane
MechanizedDeath
before this one. In the early days, I spent more time at PSX Nation and usenet than here. In 9 years, I'll have spent half my life on here. :lol PEACE.
2000, i remember karasu from segaweb, i think crazy killah (wellington) used to post there as well. segaweb was disintegrating around that point and most of the news and games discussions were breaking here, so i left segaweb and joined.
I think 2001 or 2002. I lost my account in the great gaming age crash of 2004 (it was last year wasn't it). Fortunately I was able to keep my name with my new account. Gaming-age rocks, I remember my first thread, Any news on Team Fortress 2? I almost got laughed out of here.
Late 2000 I'm sure. I've made it through with a few member names, all revolving around 'Substance'... Substance007, Count Substance...
Early 2000 I was hovering from Nintendorks to the GA Forums. Quite quickly, I lost all interest in the Ndorks forum.
It was about a year or so before the DC came out. Didn't post much, but when I did it was under a different name (Fanboy).
Crazy times back then with the whole DC/PS2 clash. Guys like Opa with their hilariously sad threads, Deadmeat coming with complete BS on a daily basis.