I’ve recently returned to the SDMB after a very long hiatus. I reckon I began posting on this board in either 1998 or 1999. I contributed somewhat regularly, but stopped using the board regularly sometime around 2001 (and was hardly seen during the “user pays” time period).
I remember the time when something went wrong with the SDMB server, and we all had to move over to some temporary host. Remember that?
It’s great to see that it’s a free board again. I’m just wondering how many “old school” dopers are still around?
Some of the more prominent posters whose names I remember from back in the day were names like:
UncleBeer is still around occasionally. OpalCat contributes regularly and even Fenris has made his presence known as of late.
jarbabyj changed her name to tiny ham (sp?) but has left the board. I don’t know what manhatten is up to but he too has left, I believe. I’m sure others can fill in more details.
I want to say the earliest Dopers refer to themselves as the 99’ers or something close to that. You might search in this Forum for some of the usernames you are looking for to find threads that reference that phrase, too - there have been a few where some of the history of old Dopers was shared…
I like to keep it old school. I get scared when I want to reference a thread from the last couple of years and then find out it was really six or seven years ago. How time flies.