Earliest Subsim forum member - you? Prove it!

[Red Devil]

I will be 60 on Aug 18th

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

I will be 60 on Aug 18th

You've got me beat by eight months. However, there are members well into their seventies. But by "oldest" Neal meant the one who has been a member the longest.

[geetrue]

I turned 65 last March ... but all I got was a phone call a week later from my son saying, "Hey dad when's your birthday"

I say give the award to Sailor Steve ... he's been the best overall poster and supporter of all that is decent and good order at subsim even though at least half of his post have been to correct others mis-spellings lol

But in my defense I did get here in 99 ... I just can't prove it

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by geetrue

I turned 65 last March ... but all I got was a phone call a week later from my son saying, "Hey dad when's your birthday"

I say give the award to Sailor Steve ... he's been the best overall poster and supporter of all that is decent and good order at subsim even though at least half of his post have been to correct others mis-spellings lol

But in my defense I did get here in 99 ... I just can't prove it

and not even a telegram off Obama/Queen/Prime Minister/Tal Iban!!! Disgusting!

[donut]

Onkel Neal, Stopped counting @ 66 Yrs

[Fish]

Member since 0ctober 30, 2000.

[Hans Schultz]

I thought I might have had something as far as a post from way back I remeber the old green and black site, alas nothing.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by geetrue

I say give the award to Sailor Steve ... he's been the best overall poster and supporter of all that is decent and good order at subsim even though at least half of his post have been to correct others mis-spellings lol

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.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You've got me beat by eight months. However, there are members well into their seventies. But by "oldest" Neal meant the one who has been a member the longest.

Good point, title changed

[Aramike]

Not sure if this has been brought up, but anyone check the Internet Archives?

http://web.archive.org/web/200008310...ubsim.com/ssr/

Go there and you can check some of the old forums out. Kind of cool for me, since it was way before my time.

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, the EZBoard message board is archived but not to the individual posts level. Still, one can go back to Oct 2000 and see who made posts, that certainly counts.

And to think, we had another forum before that one that dates back to 1997...

[FIREWALL]

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

[Onkel Neal]

But I was only 12 when I started Subsim !

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

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yeah, the EZBoard message board is archived but not to the individual posts level. Still, one can go back to Oct 2000 and see who made posts, that certainly counts.

And to think, we had another forum before that one that dates back to 1997...

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!

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.

[Red Devil]

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