The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[HamburgerBoy]

So U-M was nearly your first forum? That's cool. It's fucked up thinking about how I consider metal forums to be a fourth and nearly-last chapter in my foruming life (vidya --> politics --> tech --> metal), yet I still joined my first metal forum in 2005. It's like not only did the real world pass me by so quickly but even my forum life did and now everything seems slow by reference.

I didn't get into IRC until several months after, and I always had to keep it on the downlow because my dad forbade chatrooms on the grounds of internet rapists being everywhere. Those were some fun times too though, especially hanging out on #fap at esper.net.

 

[CiG]

I joined my first forum at 15 I think, now I'm 29 so getting up there myself.

 

[no country for old wainds]

yeah i posted on an abandonware forum for a few weeks before joining here haha

 

[Satanstoenail]

I started on a psytrance forum in 02. Have posted on various other music/band forums, car forums and bass forums over the years but my heart remains true to UM

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Home of the Underdogs? That was one of my earlier websites but I never joined the forum.

 

[no country for old wainds]

nah, freeoldies. it wasn't a gilf porn site i swear.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I started posting on the Disturbed forum for a little while, circa '02. I also posted on the TotalWar forum for a little while. I joined The Gauntlet at the beginning of my senior year of high school, and that's when my metal knowledge really started to grow, although I was already off the nu metal shitwagon by then.

 

[Onder]

I started posting on a racing simulation games forum in 2004 and I basically learned english there. The forum is gone now, it was called RaceSimCentral.

 

[The Ozzman]

I got my first start on Team Fortress Classic clan forums that someone from high school told me about. After that it moved to music related so I went to TabCrawler forums back when it was super active and then went to Amplitude-X (small set of people who left TabCrawler) and here and SMNNews forums when I started getting into metal. Then I went back to TC and then Amplitude-X until we called the admin out on lying to us and he shut the forum down. I'm on the New Standard Elite boards but I don't go there much now. For some reason the admins refuse to put a social forum there and I don't want to talk about death metal 24/7/365 so I remain here.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Deviant art and a poetry forum for me, then newgrounds and a snake breeding/exotic animals forum. Then I did a play by post d&d forum (guildportal faerun taverns) before moving to music banter, finding them too gay, and settling here as my mainstay. Still check out the music banter occasionally but I think everyone really needs to get laid there, the cyber flirting is obnoxious.

/b/ was an intermittent thing until about 5 years ago.

 

[Dak]

lol and here I thought CIG was older than me. Old man status around these here parts.

 

[no country for old wainds]

CiG does come across as an old fuck. growing up in the outback weathers you before your time.

 

[The Ozzman]

CiG does come across as an old fuck. growing up in the outback weathers you before your time.

Same with Slayed Necros. I thought he was in his mid 40s.

 

[Dak]

CiG does come across as an old fuck. growing up in the outback weathers you before your time.

Boxin all them kangaroos and crazy wallabies.

 

[CiG]

 

[Vilden]

Not sure which was my first forum, either the Blind Guardian forum which I joined 1999 or some Counterstrike forum for 3D modelling/skinning (modding a mod ) which should have been at the same time as I started playing CS in 1999 too.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

The first forum I was ever truly a regular of was an emulation forum. I made some lifelong friends there that I went to visit last year (they live in the US). I've also been active on various gaming forums and an INTP forum (though I think the MBTI is kinda bullshit now). This is really the only forum I check up on anymore though.

 

[Krow]

Gamefaqs and mtgsalvation were my first two I can remember.

 

[Vilden]

I've lurked on mtgsalvation alot!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

tangentially related but I hate how the card comment/rating feature on gatherer has been broken for literally years I used to love reading people's comments on cards even though I barely even play the game.