In another thread I just saw a post from Roy G which was a name that I hadn't seen for a while and it got me wondering....

How many of you have membership back to 1999? (I think sometime then the server was changed and we had to "rejoin")

Be interesting to see who is actually still around and pops in to see what is going on.....

I'll kick it off with my join date - 16 Feb 1999

June 2000 for me.

although mine say May 1999 I was a member when the name was Poser forum

Wednesday, April 17, 2002 :o) I'm a youngster here. Doesn't feel that way though L

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I've only been a member since 5/1/2000. My first Forum posting was 4/29/02.

But the important thing is that I've known both Doc Legume and Ironbear. It's the quality of the online experience that's important. Not the quantity.

[grin] And my first stupid post was the one on the link. (edited to add useless information)

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"although mine say May 1999 I was a member when the name was Poser forum"

Can someone clarify exactly why we all had to do the rejoin thing back in 1999?

As I said above - I thought it was a server change but I'm not too sure

Clint - anyone? Message edited on: 01/06/2006 15:29

Legume and Ironbear are still around, just not here.

Thursday, March 21, 2002 though it seems longer LOL

I know. Ironbear still pops in once in a while when there's a crisis. I can't even pull up legume's name in the members directory. That's a miracle. I know people who've demanded to be taken off and been denied because "it wasn't possible with the software 'rosity has."

07/25/2000

11/20.2001. I had just gotten Poser 4 (I bought it from daz) and I did a web search for poser websites and this was one of several I found, and the second one I joined. (PFO was the first one).
I had also just bought a Martian Manhunter action figure and it was standing on my desk in front of me as I tried to think up a user name...

edited to fix a typo.

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April 2000 ... but I also remember logging in to poserforum.com .. and then eventually that URL didn't work any more and it became Renderosity.com I remember the Virtual Tavern, the Den, the OT Forum, and all of the other incarnations of "free chat" that have seen their demises. Ah, those were the days. 8-D

@Deecey, Ah, I remember you, I, and a few other "special" friends the night they shut down The Den... That was a wonderful evening. Frankly I figured you'd have a hangover for at least 5 months after the way you were carrying on that evening. [grin]

LOL Yeah those virtual drinks are deadly! ROFLMAO!

April 2000 and Poser 3... but was I lurking before then? Oy! You have suffered me that long? I had no idea I was an "old timer". Which non-moderator has made the most posts I wonder?

Feb 15, 1999 is my join date. I was around way back when it was PoserForum...some time in 1998 I think. Willow and Grey... no store.. Poser 3 with Poser 4 on the horizon, then the debacle that put Jack in power followed by the debacle that kicked Jack out... damn those were the good ole days:)

Sept. 15th 2002, but it seems like I've been here forever! :)

Saturday, May 13, 2000 But I was visiting for months before that. I was afraid to sign up so I spent months scoping the place out. I remember the name change, though at the time it was hugely confusing because I was new to being involved in an online community. LOL Who knew there was more to the net than finding information. ;)

Well, I remember when the only place you could connect with folks was through the KPT Poser listserv. That was like 1997 or 1998 it seems.

Some interesting discussions in those days. KPT use to provide an archive of the emails from their AOL site!

Keyword: KPT!

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My join date shows up as December 1999, but I know I was involved before that as well. I remember when the move to Renderosity came, and some of the political stuff that happened - battles over forum software, battles over content guidelines, battles over egos, I guess. :-) The breakdown of Poser Forum also spawned that more adult-oriented Poser site... now, what was the name? Render... Rendero... Something like that. :-D They've since branched out into too many sites for me to keep track of. I remember some of the other early free stuff sites, too. One of my favorites was called "Poser Fashion." I think I might still have an item or two of theirs buried in my freebies library. I alwasy wondered whatever happened to them - one day the URL just stopped working.

My profile says 'Member since Saturday, August 07, 1999' although I too was here when it was Willow's PFO using P3, and so looking forward to P4 for the transparency maps! :)

I doubt if you will find any Rendo m'ships earlier than Feb '99 - that seems to be the changeover date from Poser Forum to Renderosity....Or was it the change to the Bondware System?

So at this stage we have EdW a day ahead of me as far as THIS SITE is concerned...

Who can beat Ed?

But I know a lot of us go back before 1999...Shame the records don't reflect it.

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12/10/2000

I was here back before the big switch from PFO also. Tom

My join date is listed as August 22, 1999. Kind of scary to think it's been almost 7 years since I signed up here.

Joined Jan. 17 2002. But I remember joining a few years before because I had Poser 3 or 4 I can't remember. I stopped using the app but still remembered 'rosity for the art. In fact it was te galleries here that got me back into Poser and Bryce.

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3/99?(I think), and in regard to bob's query, legume is still active at the porno site ('rotica).

raises hand Goes all the way bacj to Willow's Poser Forum Online, when Zygote only had the NudeYoungWoman for sale(no clothes) and Poser/Raydream/Detailer and Bryce were all MetaCreations. Funny the things I bought back then. Actually I think the only things I have ever purchased in poserdom are mostly from back then. zygoteFaerie NudeMuscleMan Vicki1 These random names and things pop in my head thinking about back then Anson, HappyWorldLand, Willow and Ian, Jacketman, Eve, JeffH, FastTraxx and his java cam, Mobius, PropsGuild, KateTheShrew, Crescent... that's it I think. Fun stuff back then. Everyone was friends. That didn't last though. I can remember when very specific people arrived in Poserdom. Best part of being around so long is you get dirt on everyone. lol. Well not everyone.

The mind is so fragile.

Wednesday, June 14, 2000 Lurked for a long while before registering though. Gerard

when Zygote only had the NudeYoungWoman for sale(no clothes)<< Wwere there swords and temples? you know, for Nude Young Woman In A Temple With A Sword pictures? I have the metacreations version of Carrara (bought it new, still-sealed-in-the-box from eBay acouple years ago, primarily to get certain models that were included on the content CD.

I've been a member here since Wednesday, April 17, 2002 but I started under another name,my new name has only been a member since Wednesday, January 29, 2003 (Hmm..I seem to like Wednesdays huh?..lol) -3DZ

There's been a big shift in poserdom, especially in the past three years. A lot more people were regulars here...Joelegecko, Syyd, Cath, Legume...now they've have scattered off to hosting their own sites. Even DAZ staff posted here more often...

March 12, 2000--I also remember PFO. One of the first other sites I remember was the combo of a pre-subscription PoserWorld and FairyWoods. Blast from the Past: I admit to being an inveterate pack-rat so no surprise this is the first time I've rendered the PWFW Byzantine Empire figures, circa 2000. Created by Renapd and some other classic folks per the readmes: * DAL & GREYLIGHT * TRAVELER * MASON * PHIL C * STEVE SHANKS * AKISIEL * HOKUSAI * HAPPYWORLDLAND & TALOS * WIREMONGER * GWAIGOR * HULIO CEASAR

March 2000 for me. In a search for poser sites one place was suggesting Rendo based on the 'Complaint and Debate' forum (of all things). 'Course that was back when things were interesting. ;)

Gee Anton that sure brings back memories ....

I think this was a free add on to the NYW? or was it a seperate model?

And of course the NYW launched 100's of fairies for Thorne....

Those Byzantine figures date to around 2002 (I remember when they came out)

Packrat in PoserForum. Got away from it all for a couple of years (could not afford it!) Came back when I got P5 as a gift in 2003. (Been that long? Damn I feel old!)

Hey yeah! The faerie was seperate purchase. So were the two hue maps. Green and orange I think? I forget. There were no add-on packs back then. Clothes were fused to the models. Just one-offs. They were all pre-conforming clothes.

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Remember "the Creeper"? I remember it being the first "hi-res" model and everyone kinda freaked cuz it took so long to load people thought it had crashed poser. The world was so uncomplicated back then.

If I remember correctly the sequence was NudeMuscleMan NudeYoungWoman Zygote Faerie Heroine???(some sort of action woman) The Creeper A fat man? I thiunk that was it for a very long time and then Vicki 1.0 came out.

Even though I have been using Poser since version 1, I was totally unaware that there was this huge online Poser community until version 4 was out ... I lurked here for months, too, before joining, and downloaded tons of freebies that I still have backed up on CD's somewhere. I checked back through some old CD's and I do have downloads that date back to July 1999, so I do think I was lurking here then. Wow ... it HAS been a while! LOL

December 2000..dang, after this, I probably need to become 'nu-be' again..;) I got Poser 4, then Poser 3 (go figure..;) Have seen a few come and go since then..;)

November 11,2000

Well, I looked up my old username and found that it was still there: 2/15/1999. I'm not sure how long before that I was on Poser Forum - not sure that the calendar had been invented yet.

March 31 2002.

4-5-2000.... Ahh, the memories. Rosity in blue, Rotica in green. Jack and Diane and 'Bear and Doc. Creepy Clown and the Pink Pony. Syyd and Traveler, texture goddess and morph god. Mehndi and Kate, the C&D flamewars that could barbecue titanium.... 'sniff sniff' Ahhh, the golden days...

I believe I joined here around a year before they changed the server and we all had to re-join. I remember more then 1000 members in the forum at once would bring the server to a crawl (I think average at any one time then was around 300~400 on a busey day). I remember Fairywoods and PoserWorld, and I remember when they joined together and then fell apart and then closed their doors. I remember when PropsGuild was free and adding stuff at an alarming rate. I remember MorphWorld version 1 and the birth of Eve4 and the birth of DAZ and Bbay. And shall I dare say that I remember when wee fairies flew threw the forums without anyone even dreaming of throwing stones at one, and no one ever refered to other sites as "That other place". I remember when both Poser and Bryce were owned by MetaCreations then the coming of CouriousLabs and now e-frontier. I remember all the discussions of woe and doom with coming of each. I remember when everyone hated Victoria, the Stephanie the "man-woman", and how everyone blasted Victoria 2 but most seemed to like Stephanie Peteit. I remember reading Dr Geep's first tutorial and saying "WOW! Now it actually makes sense!". I remember the discovery of Tile Mapping in UVMapper, the little Easter Egg Steve Cox forgot to tell us about. Anyway, those are some of the things I remember. Now as for Anton's mention of "dirt"....do you really want me to dig up some more old stuff??

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Check out the "Way Back Machine" http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.renderosity.com See the old look and what was going on then. Also...this thread prompted me to visit the Members Gallery here and go back to the old pages and see all the long time members.Some are still here,some have gone,but it was a nice trip down memory lane. Tom

Sunday, September 16, 2001 for me I was a member @ 3dCommune before here though starting in Jun-16-2001 at 20:54

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