This forum, by my calculations, is 12 years old (DD joined on July 20th, 2002). Wow. That seems to me like a long time for a forum online. Especially considering I joined 7 years ago on May 24th, 2007, and the forum was nearly 5 years old at that time. So many people have come and gone even in the time I've been here.
During time of the forum's inception --
- AWAl was released. Almost half the series has been released since.
- Everybody had tube TVs and antennas were the norm. DVDs? Too expensive. Still using VHS.
- The 2nd-gen iPod had just been released
- Laser printers were just beginning to show dominance over inkjets in business environments (at least, in my school where I have access to recycling records )
- You had Windows XP if you were lucky. Most people probably still ran Windows 9x or the dreaded ME. Computer RAM was measured in MB. A floppy drive was standard. You had 2 USB ports if you were lucky. You used a CRT monitor and had dial-up Internet.
- People wore glasses with massive lenses
- Having a CD player in the car was considered a luxury
- I was 9 years old (now 21), beginning 3rd grade
- My dad may or may not have still been running his music shop, or it was the beginning of the end
- I had just learned to write cursive
- My sister had just graduated high school
- My weird cat, Timmy, was still a kitten, having been born the previous September. He's still alive at 13 years old, which is legendary for this rural area of predators (he got attacked by a fisher cat and almost died, and he's been very paranoid since but has calmed down a bit in the last couple years).
Anything else you can think of?
During time of the forum's inception --
- AWAl was released. Almost half the series has been released since.
- Everybody had tube TVs and antennas were the norm. DVDs? Too expensive. Still using VHS.
- The 2nd-gen iPod had just been released
- Laser printers were just beginning to show dominance over inkjets in business environments (at least, in my school where I have access to recycling records )
- You had Windows XP if you were lucky. Most people probably still ran Windows 9x or the dreaded ME. Computer RAM was measured in MB. A floppy drive was standard. You had 2 USB ports if you were lucky. You used a CRT monitor and had dial-up Internet.
- People wore glasses with massive lenses
- Having a CD player in the car was considered a luxury
- I was 9 years old (now 21), beginning 3rd grade
- My dad may or may not have still been running his music shop, or it was the beginning of the end
- I had just learned to write cursive
- My sister had just graduated high school
- My weird cat, Timmy, was still a kitten, having been born the previous September. He's still alive at 13 years old, which is legendary for this rural area of predators (he got attacked by a fisher cat and almost died, and he's been very paranoid since but has calmed down a bit in the last couple years).
Anything else you can think of?
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