Popular Post Starhawk Posted April 6 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 6 A little over 20 years ago, @Romier S was banned from Home Theater Forum. Someone else can tell the story better than I can, but after that, there was an idea to create a dedicated video game forum for the members of HTF's Videogame segment. We don't have an exact birthdate, but @kelley started his account 20 years ago today on April, 6th 2003. The first members joined up around April 9th of that year. Crazy to think about it, but here we are 20 years later. 🍻 I'd recently been made aware of the concept of "Third Places", a place that is not home or work that serves as community. It was brought up in the context of how we are lacking Third Places in modern society. Some people argue that online interactions aren't a substitute, and while I think that may apply to broader social media in general, there's especially a difference in our smaller, close-knit group. And I think we've proven our Third Place with this 20 year test of time in this little corner of the internet. kelley, xPieter, Kranix and 15 others 4 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Whooter Posted April 6 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 6 Cheers! We've gone through a lot of shit over the years. Here's to 20 more! Josh, Orpheus, JoeyN and 3 others 2 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jubjub75 Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 I don't know the whole story, but I'm grateful that @Romier S ticked off whomever he ticked off. I still visit here, haven't been to HTF in more than a decade (maybe two!). Starhawk, Camp and Romier S 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 I think we opened up to the “public” on April 15. I want to say member #2 was a particular robotic monkey. Camp and Magness 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Monkey Posted April 6 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 6 Nope, I joined later, May 19, 2003. You and I were playing Wolfenstein on Xbox Live. We were on the same team and and we made an improbable run for the documents we had to steal and return to our base. I snagged the docs and you ran out of the building. You looked around and didn't see me behind you. You ran back in and and saw me jump up on the desk and crouch. "What the fuck are you doing?!" "I'm shitting on their paperwork." A day or two later I had a PM from you on HTF inviting me to some nutty new endeavor. Magness, Camp, Kranix and 7 others 1 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 27 minutes ago, kelley said: I think we opened up to the “public” on April 15. I want to say member #2 was a particular robotic monkey. First day for me was April 11th Camp and Magness 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 Magness, Camp and Whooter 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 April 10th for me! Camp, Magness and Whooter 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Romier S Posted April 6 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 6 I don't even remember what got me booted over there. I somewhat remember it involved Silent Hill 3 and someone (possibly Morgan?) saying stupid shit about the run animations in the game, etc. I remember posting something fairly innocuous in response. Probably my calling him an f'ing moron in the nicest way possible and I woke up to a ban the next day. The wonders of internet drama in my 20's. Things I wouldn't give the slightest shit about at 45.:D Whooter, jubjub75, Starhawk and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 Whatever it was was deleted. I searched on HTF, and your last post was about the show Dollhouse, and last gaming still up was about Xbox 360 and PS3 system stuff. Magness 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 5 hours ago, JoeyN said: I'm not sure it's worth this much effort to publicly shame Camp and Dogbert for never updating their avatars. (100% kidding, it's actually an impressive run) I cannot believe it's been 20 years. Holy F edit: I just realized that screenshot is probably new, so not the avatars from 20 years ago. But I think Dogbert’s has never changed. Not sure about Camp’s Magness, Whooter, jubjub75 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel P Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 I joined August 16 when I realized I had an invite from Romier that was months old. Whooter, Magness and Camp 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark E Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Man, has it been that long? That’s a hell of a run, good work, ya’ll! Magness and Camp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 I boast that I was trolling LCVG before reddit, twitter, and Facebook knew what they were missing. Magness, jubjub75 and Camp 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Yeah forget that social media shit. We were using Aim and ICQ still Magness 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 1 minute ago, JoeyN said: Yeah forget that social media shit. We were using Aim and ICQ still That's right; I remember an old-timey app that combined all the messenging services into one. What was it called? It was during the XP days ... TRILLIAN, that was it! Google says it's still around! JoeyN 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPieter Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 3 hours ago, Angel P said: I joined August 16 when I realized I had an invite from Romier that was months old. August 16 for me too. That's weird. Magness, Camp and Angel P 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dogbert Posted April 7 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 7 5 hours ago, rustyjaw said: I'm not sure it's worth this much effort to publicly shame Camp and Dogbert for never updating their avatars. (100% kidding, it's actually an impressive run) I cannot believe it's been 20 years. Holy F edit: I just realized that screenshot is probably new, so not the avatars from 20 years ago. But I think Dogbert’s has never changed. Not sure about Camp’s It's Rez. Why the fuck would I want to change it? I'm thoroughly proud of joining before @Romier S. I'm OG. I'm due a trip to the North East to hunt some red shirts. iainl, JoeyN, rustyjaw and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magness Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Kick ass 😊 can’t believe it’s been that long. I still love it here and I didn’t join until February 8, 2005 Camp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Well, either the search function doesn’t have a complete archive, or there were about three weeks between me joining on the 11th and actually posting anything. Which was firstly about how the quite reasonable price of Xbox Live meant I was considering the expense of a Broadband connection (0.5Mbps! Oh, the unadulterated velocity!) and then about how NVidia’s new graphics card was gigantic and too expensive compared to the ATi. How times change, and yet don’t. dogbert and Magness 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 April 29 for me. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. We need to organize a SOCOM or Rainbow Six Vegas birthday session! (Assuming it’s possible to play either online anymore.) dogbert, Magness and Camp 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 I would never visit a videogame discussion forum, right? But if I did visit a videogame discussion forum, I sure as hell wouldn't tell no-goddamn-body about it. I'd be ashamed as a motherfucker, man. Whooter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertA Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 Looks like I joined back in October 27 2003 - I couldn’t even remember why - after some searches looks like I joined because of Glen’s @The Daisy deal posts in HTF After looking at some old threads I remembered tehbias forum which looks like it shutdown back in 2018? Wow that’s 5 years ago. what happened to @Buck? dogbert and Camp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dogbert Posted April 7 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 7 12 minutes ago, AlbertA said: what happened to @Buck? He got a life 😆 Camp, JoeyN, Whooter and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted April 7 Report Share Posted April 7 5 minutes ago, dogbert said: He got a life 😆 I mean you're not wrong. Years ago he married, moved just outside of DC and had a few kids. I met his wife on my last visit almost a decade ago. Otherwise, I haven't heard from Scott in a very, very long time. I've seen him on Xbox Live several times and I've meant to reach out but just haven't ever gotten there. Whooter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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