# How Did You Find SDMB?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-sdmb/164700>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 28, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-sdmb/164700 "2003-03-28T03:02:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-sdmb/164700/61 "2003-03-31T07:13:06Z")

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roomie **Angel of the Lord** kept pestering me. and pestering me. and pestering. I signed up in November 2001, mostly lurked around the pits though. Didn’t start posting regularly until last month, really.

and yes, I’m addicted _now_. It just took 15 months to do it. I’m a slow learner. 😛

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-sdmb/164700/62 "2003-03-31T07:15:01Z")

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Hmmm… Am I the first one here to admit having been fairly active on the AOL-based version?

Ahhhh…the memories of assorted doofuses (doofi?) posting messages wanting to know what kind of lamps or fertilizer they should use for their basement “farm.” And the “Hey buttheads, I asked a question here 10 minutes ago and nobody’s answered me yet!”

Before anyone asks, no, I can’t remember what my AOL name was back then.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-sdmb/164700/63 "2003-03-31T09:28:45Z")

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Recommended by a friend (thanks Ash!) for the “What if LOTR had been written by someone else?” thread on Cafe Society, and not looked back since. 😃

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-sdmb/164700/64 "2003-03-31T11:25:14Z")

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Actually I found the sd through a thing aol used ot have for bored people if you typed kw: random and clicked the roulette wheel it dumped ya off at diffrent sites …

I found the sd … and when they moved ot the web i signed up for the mb but for some reason the link ya get sent to click on didnt work for me and it was a year before i got it working …

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