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I don't think I've been here since the beginning, but I know I first started coming here before 3E came out. At least long enough to recognize "C'mon August!" Though I think I first saw Henry's sig on one of the newsgroups.
[EDIT]This gave me the idea of trying to track down the birth of the site via newsgroup postings, which are forever archived. I have not found a source as of yet that mentions the site, but I did find this post: Prescience!
[MORE EDIT]This post lists a website on mailbag.com that is of course no longer there.
[EVEN MORE EDIT]I found this posting on July 29th, 1999 that does not contain the Mailbag link. The first link I can find is on August 22nd, 1999. I'll see if I can do a more complete search between those two dates tomorrow. Or, if someone wants to get really nostalgic, there you go.
[FINAL EDIT... I PROMISE]Well duh. I was reviewing the links, and the very first one I posted has the site listed on August 13th, 1999. That narrows it down to a couple of weeks.
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10 years already? That's a while. I can still remember the rush I felt when I found the page for the first time, around the time when the speculations and previews for 3e were starting to roll in. Finally some more people with the same interest as me, who like to talk about it (my players love to play the game, but talking about game mechanics and the like isn't their thing).
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There might need to be a list or pool of elements/components you definitely want incorporated into any banner or art piece. Might even be that a t-shirt design could be created and sold to help fund continued operations. You might want to get one of the local lawyer-types to scratch out some release forms for you, too, just to CYOA on the art usage down the line. I know of CafePress.com but what was the place that had the D&D shirt vending license a while ago?
I can't remember the date but I do remember turning in my first scoop within a few days of Eric taking them. I spent hours scouring other boards and sites to find one only to get beat by someone else most of the time.
I loved waking up to check the site to see what possible tidbit had been discovered and read all the speculations on what it meant
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I don't know what scares me most: that I've been coming here for a decade, that I've been working on this for 9 years or that I'm Morrus' age!
I remember when I used to update my Geocities gallery, then go to Wizards' chat room and then Eric's to announce it. And then Eric invited me over to be hosted, and Mo' took up the baton after that.
Man, what a crazy ride! I think I still have some 2e stuff on my computer! And I bought the damn 2e Core Rules CD Rom!
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Wow, its been that long. I was working at the University of Arkansas Libraries and hadn't even gone to graduate school yet, when I found Eric Noah's Third Edition News. And being new to the internet culture I still didn't understand everyone's dislike of TSR and got into a flamewar about the brand being absorbed into Wizards.
i've been visiting enworld for a long time. thinking back (and comparing it to the dates mentioned above) i guess i've been visiting (as both lurker and member) since almost the start! I can't believe it's been almost 10 years! wow...
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I'm just waiting for the 10th anniversary of the actual "EN World" website. We can pull out all our old nostalgic Daemonforge material, and recall the woe and lament about turning the forums over from a Wisconsinite to a Brit.
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That is actually quite scary - it means I was a youthful 24 at the time!
I would have been 27 in August of 1999.
Yikes!!!
Wow, has it really been that long!
Good times!
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That could be a great idea. Make an event of it, see if we can rope in some celebrity judges, offer a cool prize...
Would you want this all in place before the birthday (currently, Aug 10)? If not, the winner(s) could be announced at GenCon; which is the following week...
I remember discovering the site during GenCon. August 10 was a Tuesday, 2 days after the Con closed. Does that fit Eric's timetable?
Yeah, could be. I think it took me a couple of days to see that I was going to have to organize the tidbits I was gathering and so didn't start marking my material with dates until then.
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