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[Windle Poons]

Ten years in August. Long way to go yet.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I'm getting close. I've been here since 2008.

 

[kruis]

I'm here officially since 2008 but I've been here at least since 2007. But that account that got permabanned when NeoGaf was much, much more woke. Thank god the current incarnation of NeoGAF is nothing like the purple place or I'd have been permabanned multiple times.

 

[Gameboy415]

I've been around since 2008 too!
I used to be pretty active back in the day - especially in Markman's monthly 'Pick-Up Post' threads, various game collecting threads, and the '31 Days of Horror' Halloween movie threads - but now I just send my wife GIFs from the 'Pics That Make You Laugh' thread, lol.

 

[Vyse]

Been here since 2004 as well.

 

[p_xavier]

Anyways, I love getting older. Better ethics, physics, morals...

 

[p_xavier]

Jun 9, 2004 it says on my profile.

However I remember the furious debates around Sega GT2002 vs Gran Turismo 3 around the same year.

Basically neogaf creation date.

 

[Dice]

I think 26 years for me, if I remember correctly when this place started pre-neo.

 

[Days like these...]

I think 26 years for me, if I remember correctly when this place started pre-neo.

Yeah, I was on the original GAF since '98-''99

 

[Dice]

Yeah, I was on the original GAF since '98-''99

There was a point in time it didn't even have UBB format yet and it was like old newsgroups with cascading links for each post and a convo would be like RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: ….

 

[Syphon Filter]

I think 26 years for me, if I remember correctly when this place started pre-neo.

huh you sure gaf was around in the 90's? i think it was early 00's.

 

[Ecotic]

2006 member here, but I lurked since about 2002 before I had an eligible email account. So I'm probably in the earliest 5% or lower.

Early 2000's forums were the best, back when hardly anyone who could use the internet was older than 25 and everyone strived to be immature and silly. At least that's how I remember that era. 5 pages of reaction gifs before any real discussion started.

 

[M.W.]

Oldest thread I could find from search, closed pretty quick lol

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Thread 'You knew it was coming - What's your Member Number?'

Jun 6, 2004

I'm #40. Not bad. BIG THANKS to Agent Dormer (formerly Irish Angst) for regging my name for me.

• StrikerObi
• Replies: 3
• Forum: Off-Topic Discussion

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[Eirin]

I have to say, I'm envious.

I really needed community. I was really stupid and tried to find communities for shy people who struggled with loneliness and other problems, rather than spending that time on games & interests and meeting people that way. In 2015, I tried to find something better but idk why, NeoGaf never even came up in my search results. All I saw were dead sites, and I felt like it was too late to play the online games I wanted to try (I guess if things seem dark, you can't think clearly).

I see other people having made connections or at least getting to exchange ideas or mess around, and I can see what I missed out on. Community is so important; people like to say nothing online matters but it very much does.

 

[Dice]

huh you sure gaf was around in the 90's? i think it was early 00's.

It was. Other forums I went to were Next Generation magazine and Nintendorks. GameFAQs, Gamespot, and IGN were around but they were shit. I think GAF as its own hosted forum using UBB was 2000, but before that they had another host in the format of ye ancient internet. I just forget if it was 98 or 99 that it really started.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Approaching 15yrs in Nov

 

[Paasei]

That is very long. My account is apparently 11 years old. I came by a few years before that as a visitor 4 - 5 years before I was able to register an account. Needed some sort of business email back in the day to register, which was something I didn't have back then.

Anyway, welcome back. Hopefully it'll bring a smile on your face again like so many years ago. People are still silly from time to time.

 

[Forsete]

Basically neogaf creation date.

I remember drooling over the Gran Turismo 2000 footage from E3 2000. But I might have been a lurker then.
This place was the best with members gathering footage from all over the internet.

 

[JimmyRustler]

My 20th is coming up in less than a year. Time flies.

Remember making an account here back in the days because I wrote news for a site and the admin pointed me here to stay up to date. Didn't write long for that site and from what I can see it doesn't exist any more but yeah, that's how it all started.

 

[Acti]

12 years, professional lurker.

 

[Mistake]

I remember that homeless drunk girl in evilore's apartment like it was yesterday

 

[Sleepwalker]

2012 says my user profile but I've been a lurker since my senior year of HS which would've been 2008-2009. I found this forum via the defunct Megadeth (band) forums but couldn't register at the time due to not having an insititutional email.

It wasn't until I made it to university that I had one of those and could make an account.

 

[Machine]

I officially joined in 2008 but lurked before. I stay pretty low profile though so no tags or anything like that.

 

[spookyfish]

I might not be as active on NeoGAF as I used to be, but this place still means a lot to me. Back during my first year of college, I was a shy gamer without many people to talk to about the things I really loved…games, geeky stuff, even hiding my Pokémon cards like it was some big secret.

NeoGAF was a safe space where I could finally be myself and connect with people who got it. It honestly helped me through a time when I felt pretty alone.

Even now, logging back in brings a wave of nostalgia. I'm an old man married with FIVE BOYS Are any of the old heads from back then still around? Would be great to see some familiar names again.

I joined back around the GameCube days -- was originally Bud_Brigman, but I couldn't get to the email to reactivate my account. So, I started this new account in 2004. Married with two kids, have seen four "generations" come and go. Carry on, old-timer.

 

[Days like these...]

So who else was on OG GAF since '99 that's put us at 26 years.