20th Anniversary of TrekBBS Avatars

[Miss Chicken]

I know that on 9-11 two of our members had views of the Twin Towers, one from the rooftop of his apartment building and the other from his office across the river.

 

[Paul Weaver]

our IRC chat room

I was about to say "wow oldschool"

I then literally looked at my other monitor and noticed I had an IRC window open on the top of the pile.

 

[Evil Robert]

Even back in the day, I always struggled to figure out how to use IRC. It never felt user friendly.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The only thing I ever learned from IRC was how to slap someone with a large trout.

 

[Teelie]

IRC reminds me of when ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo's messenger and all the others were the way to socialize. Every so often there would be a large party in ICQ of dozens of people, although I don't know if TBBS ever had those.

 

[publiusr]

I make a lot of links--so my lack of an avatar makes up for that, I hope.
During Halloween, I am tempted to use BELIAL IN THE NEW WORLD by Barlow
https://morpheusgallery.com/Other Fine Artists/item.php?work=565

 

[Orac]

I lurked for a few years before joining in 2007, I've had innumerable avatars, but I believe this was the first one:

Here are a few avatars from the great sombrero meme of 2008:

 

[1001001]

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

Same story for me. I don’t remember how quickly I became a mod, but it was relatively fast. Lisa and I interacted a lot on the old J Team site. Good times.

And ICQ...if you were on staff you had to have it.

 

[Finn]

On top of my head-

From my early days...
-Finn as a pup, laying on the floor by the desk
-The Space Needle

Recent years.
-Kai Hillary during the 2016 US Presidential campaign...
-My gorn ship painting
-the current DS9/Starfleet ship hybrid painting

I can't remember the rest....

 

[Evil Robert]

Same story for me. I don’t remember how quickly I became a mod, but it was relatively fast. Lisa and I interacted a lot on the old J Team site. Good times.

And ICQ...if you were on staff you had to have it.

'Cause Christian didn't use anything else!

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Wow this thread is a blast from the past. It's nice seeing some of the old avatars return, even though three pages in and there haven't been any Sombrero avatars posted yet, and I don't think Samuel T. Cogley posts here anymore. That whole era (before the first Kelvin movie came out) was weird.

But, like, a good weird, right?

 

[Santaman]

<-- one of my first avatars, found the original pic so I could recreate it and make it a little bigger, the original was at 75x75 pixels IIRC

 

[Danja]

God, that was two computers ago.

LMAO.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

How many old-timers here have changed names? Not you, Amaris, I KNOW you have!

I have twice. My old account from 2000-2002 was locked and got deleted in one of the crashes. I returned briefly to post in the farewell thread when my friend Kelly died but used a different name so as to not attract the attention of trolls and bullies.
When I finally returned a few years ago I chose a name that was only a few minutes old and the result of a tongue twister (or finger twister, rather) in Terranchat

Yep, I really joined back in 1999! I guess that makes me one of the oldest (though not most productive) members here. I remember that in those days, Trektoday was THE place to go for Trek news. I've always loved this forum, and I remember in 'the early days' I created several long threads (like 'Would you have sex with an alien?' or 'Is it right to kill a hologram?'). Good times - and still going!

Don't be a stranger! Post more often, please! We could do with such interesting topics.
Have you always had the same name?