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*looks appropriately shocked and appalled*
Agreed. I love it, though. This place would not be the same without our most prolific poster.
20th Anniversary of TrekBBS Avatars
- Thread starter Lord Garth
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Any way to find an original Joined date from before those crashes? I'm sure I started in 1999 with the same username.
I have more posts than the #2 and #3 most prolific posters combined.
Kill me.
Kill me.
I'm still on the same one I signed up with in 2002.
I've had the same name since I joined in 2006.
I have, once. The orange username must have been the price I paid for it.
I've thought of requesting another change, and may still do so at some stage. The OZ abbreviation does work, though.
Every time you change to a non-Carl Spock avatar I keep thinking that you don't look like yourself.
That Shouting Spock thread sure helped with the post count!
So did the 3/5/7-word story threads. I don't post much in them anymore since people seem uninterested in actually creating a story that lasts more than 2 posts.
I made Sombrero Borg and Sombrero Tribble smileys; they would make very small avatars if anyone wants to use them (since apparently we can't have new smileys here).
My username is so iconic, so unique, so foundational...it would damage the psyche of other posters for me to change it.
I'm still using the name I originally signed up as.
I actually have a really difficult time coming up with user names, and struggled a lot with what to go with. Once I started using this one here, then I did also use it at some other sites too... most of which are now defunct.
I have many times thought I should change it to something else, but the dialogue usually goes something like this:
Me: I should change my user name.
Inner Voice: Uh huh, OK, sure. And what are you going to change it to?
Me: ...
Inner Voice: Yeah, that's what I thought.
This is the same one I started with.
Same name because i had no idea it could be changed, BUT!, how many can tell you what they had for their tea 17 years ago while surfing TrekBBS and deciding to join. lol
I don't think I had many avatars. I was really against them back at the beginning and only soften my stance when I was drifting away from this site.
I remember however a lady on Terranbbs (Starsny? Shatny?) had a whole bunch of blank dollz we could use and customize. I remember doing one in the St George Dragons colours, (Orac Zen recognised it) but I lost it and all the other versions I made after the hosting site I used stopped working. I remember T'Bonz very kindly did one out me in TOS Kirk uniform.
I recall I had a hunky John Edwards one as well at some point. I think it would've been in the 2004 US Presidential Election. I also had a few variations of the University of Utah/Utah Utes logos. Even in a sambero (but years before the craze here - they went to the Fiesta Bowl in Jan 2005).
I don't really recall any other avatars, though I'm certain I probs had a few more.
I originally registered in Dec 2001 as Boobies of Borg but that name as y'all can guess got old pretty fast and I got over the one-note-joke of it, and I quietly registered a new account as Evil Robert in Feb 2002. But I was mum about that for years as this was the height of paranoia on the site and Lisa or susannah would ban you at the mere hint of a duplicate name.
I sadly remember doing apx 250 posts in a day as well. Just so I could get to Commadore and top Katie_453's From The Ranks or whatever it was called. Lol. I still finished second to Huntingdon that week I think. I normally wasn't that spammy. That was a rare day for me. Helps I didn't have a job then either
There was a lot of posts that day in forums I never would go in (Fan Art/Fan Fic et cetera) saying 'good work' or variations there of.
I still think I was one of the fastest newbie-to- mod in trekbbs history (sometime like 5 months or so from joining). I think it was 'cause I was a big Janewayite and Lisa was too! Lol
I remember however a lady on Terranbbs (Starsny? Shatny?) had a whole bunch of blank dollz we could use and customize. I remember doing one in the St George Dragons colours, (Orac Zen recognised it) but I lost it and all the other versions I made after the hosting site I used stopped working. I remember T'Bonz very kindly did one out me in TOS Kirk uniform.
I recall I had a hunky John Edwards one as well at some point. I think it would've been in the 2004 US Presidential Election. I also had a few variations of the University of Utah/Utah Utes logos. Even in a sambero (but years before the craze here - they went to the Fiesta Bowl in Jan 2005).
I don't really recall any other avatars, though I'm certain I probs had a few more.
I originally registered in Dec 2001 as Boobies of Borg but that name as y'all can guess got old pretty fast and I got over the one-note-joke of it, and I quietly registered a new account as Evil Robert in Feb 2002. But I was mum about that for years as this was the height of paranoia on the site and Lisa or susannah would ban you at the mere hint of a duplicate name.
I sadly remember doing apx 250 posts in a day as well. Just so I could get to Commadore and top Katie_453's From The Ranks or whatever it was called. Lol. I still finished second to Huntingdon that week I think. I normally wasn't that spammy. That was a rare day for me. Helps I didn't have a job then either
There was a lot of posts that day in forums I never would go in (Fan Art/Fan Fic et cetera) saying 'good work' or variations there of.I still think I was one of the fastest newbie-to- mod in trekbbs history (sometime like 5 months or so from joining). I think it was 'cause I was a big Janewayite and Lisa was too! Lol
^ Well not counting anyone, like Jammer, who was a mod from Day One. Yeah.
The heck with it. I'm going with an avatar from 2019. An avatar from an hour ago, in fact. Dress Rehearsal for an Al Capone-themed 1920s play.
Yeah, not counting the original OG class of '99
^ Ha ha, I still have your old av, E.R.
I got good at making faces, but was never good at the bodies, alas.
Starbys was quite talented. My first av was from her. We weren't allowed them then and so I stuck my little av at the bottom, not in the sig though.
It's how I was jettisoned out of obscurity around here. Thanks Starbys!
...I think...
I got good at making faces, but was never good at the bodies, alas.
Starbys was quite talented. My first av was from her. We weren't allowed them then and so I stuck my little av at the bottom, not in the sig though.
It's how I was jettisoned out of obscurity around here. Thanks Starbys!
...I think...
One of my most powerful memories of this place is when on 9-11, people from the BBS all over the world went to our IRC chat room. Everyone was trying to get news, especially those outside of N. America. It was such a coming together, all factions stopped fighting each other for a bit.
And we were all so shocked.
And we were all so shocked.
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