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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?
(To be fair, that would have included me until just a bit ago.)
). I had been reading Harry Potter for a couple years (I started reading around the time GoF came out in the US) and I loved it, but I had no idea the fandom - or any fandom - existed at all. Harry Potter was really the start of online fandom for me, and it was a few years after I found the HP online fan community in 2005 (I think) that I thought, "Hmm, I don't know anyone who's read the Young Wizards series, but surely there are some people online!" Aaaand there were.
I was 10 when I joined, and always figured I was waaaay younger than everyone else on here, hence why I didn't talk much (I think I went to maybe one of DD's chats, and made a couple dozen posts in my entire time here). I'm only finding out now that there were so many others around my age on here!
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