Actually, Rick, if you look back in the EZBoard archives, you appear as far back as Feb 2001.... :hmmm:

...but I'm pretty sure Bill and John were onboard before then, too. John wrote the first DiMercurio article for Subsim in Sept 1998 :D

x2 Steve's a stand-up guy, and has my inflinching admiration. Of course, I would have to add you, geetrue, to my personal list of SubSim heroes as well. Truly so.

Neal You must be the Ole Geezer Member. :haha: You surely made the first post. :know:

But I was only 12 when I started Subsim ! :O:

Here is a good record of who was around in the beginning, the Fix My 688(I) roster. Scroll down to the middle of the page, the blue table has the original 1998-1999 signers.

Order appears to the left to right, top to bottom... I recognize a lot of names in the first three rows

Neal Stevens
Scott Hirschman
Pat Miller
Bill Nichols
Robert Mauchin
Colin Foster
Barry Barnes
Jorgen Hallbeck
Lonny Hodges
John Easley
Ernest Fratz
J.D.Latorre
Pierre Ducasse
Magne Tjoerhom
Bill Keys
F. Morissette - SIM HQ
R. Litchfield - SIM HQ
Ed Lynch - SIM HQ
Ben Qol
Ed Quiggle
Nick Meis
Lane Goodman
Randall Guy
Angelo
Jun Arisaka
Kevin Polito
Joong-Hoon Kang
Joshua J. Krzych
Dennis Witthuhn
Dirk Delat
David Nawton
Robert Toole
Brian Young
Kevin Dankmeyer
Ross McCallum
Kasey Chang
Darren Dixon
Fred Polgardy, Sr.
Gerald Buscemi
Gordon Watson
Matthew Lenerville
Vint Le'
Scott Zabolotzky
Walt Hare
Don Stewart
Peter Cornish
Andrew Dawes
Steve Sanders
Kenneth M. Hinds
Paul Powell
Ken Hinchliffe
Jim (Struts) Raring
Luke Russell
Bram M. Otto
John Channing
Philippe Fransolet
Dan Cohen
Dietger Pohl
Daryl Cohen
Stuart Whelan

Heh, I was trying to find that old forum but no matter where I looked, nothing came up.

Btw, a select few (and I mean few) of the old threads and posts are available at that site, but it is luck of the draw. In any case, I'm totally pissed that I missed Subsim at that point, even though I was playing sub games! How dare you not be popular enough in your infancy to not be known by me! :rock:

Like I said earlier ... Neal, best site on the net, hands down! You know your thing and make it happen for everyone else who gets the point.

there is a site, archives.org, or something like that where all old web sites, minus images, go to lie down.

I wonder if he was the first guy to spell your name wrong. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/RickC/neil.jpg

Probably not! But I let him hear about, I'm sure ;)

isn't that a KP'able offense? we can do retroactive you know...

hows thangs Neil?

lol

hiya Rick...

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Boy, you would show up when my name is being battered :O:

lol... well... im not the oldest member... but i am 2 or 3 best spammer.:DL:rotfl:

Naugh, your the best due to the content of your spam :yep:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=82078 there must be earlier ones as i am the navy dude there LOL

:haha:

I remember when I first met Neal....Lets see now, it was a bright sunny day, the animals were all gathered at the foot of the ramp waiting to board the boat. Neal came up asking for to directions to the new Sub....I'd never heard of such a boat, but it got my interest, so I tagged along for a look see...the rest is history.

I didn't know how to write back then, so I didn't post for a long time....LOL...


In reality I joined a few months before SH2 come out, so I know I'm not the oldest member. My earliest post I could find was in Feb. 02, and that was post #25.


It's good to see some of the old timers.