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. 
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.
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. 
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 …