# Question about First DopeFest
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 22, 2000, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838 "2000-12-22T11:00:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2000, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/1 "2000-12-22T11:00:57Z")
More to the point, when and where the heck was it?
This is in relation to another thread, and I have spent a good deal of time searching for the answer, but to no avail. Alas, it is late and I’m tired so I figured I could get the answer from a fellow doper.
Please help!!!
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### Author:  [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2000, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/2 "2000-12-22T11:24:19Z")
I think it was us, but I was hoofed, ask VB, unclebeer, or uke.
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### Author:  [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2000, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/3 "2000-12-22T11:36:33Z")
It was November 1999, I just asked VB, at the Birds Nest.
Present were
Me
ValerieBlaise
Omniscient
Boli
ChrisCTP
Jophiel
Ukelele Ike
Unclebeer
Gaudere
Maybe more, not sure, as I said, we had a few:)
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2000, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/4 "2000-12-22T14:23:09Z")
Umm… First large one of the web-based boards, maybe. I know there were some smaller ones before, and that the AOL folks got together from time to time.
Lemme shoot this one over to MPSIMS and see what they have to say.
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### Author:  [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/5 "2000-12-22T14:33:15Z")
Some of the [fests](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/reunion.html).
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/6 "2000-12-22T23:39:31Z")
**Manny’s** being too goddam self-effacing. Somebody take his temperature, it’s not like him at all.
The first post-move to Net Dopefest was a five-fer of NYCers in midtown Manhattan in September of 1999. Present were (alphabetically)
**Alphagene
Eve
manhattan
SaxFace
Ukulele Ike**
Well, a “gathering,” anyway. How many Dopers constitutes a Fest?
The AOL folks, I couldn’t tell you.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/7 "2000-12-23T01:49:27Z")
Gatherings of two have been labeled as DopeFests without protest.
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/8 "2000-12-23T02:18:09Z")
The first meeting of web Dopers was posted about on 10-14-99 in [How Cool Is That?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15759) by **ChrisCTP** about her meeting with **boli**.
That set off a flurry of get together organizational threads that resulted in New York meeting on 10-18-99, Chicago and Houston both meeting in early November. I seem to remember a St. Louis meeting being arranged where several participants showed up but never managed to hook up with each other at the bar. Our (Houston) first meeting of more than two ( **Ayesha** , **LIONsob** , **Sealemon88** and **beatle** ) had a slight problem in that we’d agreed to meet in the bar at Cafe Adobe and no one realized it had two bars.
My first meeting with another Doper was 10-30-99 when I met **Cessandra** at _Rocky Horror_.
I seem to vaguley recall **Uke** and **Eve** trying to set up a meeting of the two of them that for some reason didn’t go.
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### Author:  [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2000, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-first-dopefest/46838/9 "2000-12-23T09:22:08Z")
Wow.
Thank you all very much for the input, it is very, very much appriciated.
and thank you **Manny** for bumping this over to the right forum. I was unsure as to where to put it.