Is there a way to discover how long we've actually been members for?

[Doppleganger]

The wayback machine has a bunch of neato old stuff. For example, here's a fully browsable version of the boards from exactly 2 yrs ago:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010606...e/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true


Here's Olive, apparently gathering research for his own "Slayers Guide to Gnolls" supplement --
http://web.archive.org/web/20010722215702/dynamic.gamespy.com/~dnd3e/ubb/Forum17/HTML/006116.html

Olive's old profile (note: we moved to new boards around the holidays of that year so the "date registered" could just be a re-register)--
http://web.archive.org/web/20010528...nd3e/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Olive


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Here's the oldest board snapshot I could dig up... "C'mon August! 17, 2000"--
http://web.archive.org/web/20000818000230/http://www.rpgplanet.com/dnd3e/board/

From that page, the one link that's still archived is a peek at threads in the CharGen/MasterTools forum--
http://web.archive.org/web/20001101...orum.asp?forum_id=447&forum_title=3E+Software

And here were the hot topics o'the day--
http://web.archive.org/web/20000823045618/www.rpgplanet.com/dnd3e/board/activetoday.asp

And Eric's 3E news frontpage (Coming soon: a 3E DMG, 3E Monster Manual, and our first module, the Sunless Citadel, woohool!!):
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815084345/www.rpgplanet.com/dnd3e/


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I've been a daily lurker since Jan/Feb 2000, so it's alot of fun to go back and see all those familiar names. Amazing how many are still here too.

 

[HellHound]

Thanks Doppleganger.

That was fun to surf around the 2-year old boards!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Can you find the user list of thos times?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Whoah. I remember all of these.

Only three years? I thought EN days went further back. Like 5-6
years. I thought I had been like 13-14 when I first came here.

When was 3e first announced? When came it out? I came here
sometime between those two events. When did PKitty go to
Iceland?

 

[LightPhoenix]

I can only place myself as "Before August". I remember reading the WotC newsgroup (tank.wizards I think) and seeing Henry's sig "C'mon August!". From there I migrated to Eric's site and boards and lurked for a long while. I probably had all of one or two posts on Eric's boards, both before and after the release.

 

[Olive]

wow...

now THAT was a trip down memory lane.

I'm pretty sure I'm a pre-August member too, but I guess I'll never know...

Thanks doppleganger. That was cool.

 

[Doppleganger]

[edit -- too interesting for here, moved to General. ]

 

[Hand of Evil]

Amazing that the topics really have not changed that much from the old boards.

 

[Angcuru]

Here's a good method - Cut your left pinky finger off and count the rings.

 

[EricNoah]

Wow..... Ok, I have a mirror of the old site so that's not such a biggie, but those snapshots of the boards!!!! My brain is frying!

That browsable one from June 2001 -- I can't believe that was 2 years ago. It was also 2 months before I closed up shop. You can see Gary Gygax and PA going at it, this was before Dragoth the Destroyer got banned, lots of names I don't see around here much but all the time over at Nutkinland.

Gosh ... good times!!