Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: When was Renderosity formed and some other questions about the beginning

Dave-So opened this issue on Mar 26, 2008 · 68 posts


Penguinisto posted Thu, 27 March 2008 at 11:15 PM

Quote - Dr. Legume is moderator at Renderotica (I suppose he's the same ol' Doc)

Oh, c'mon... we feed him occasionally.

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Quote - poser forum was created in early 98 by willow.
jack bought the site in late 98, after which we hadda recreate our user accounts .
tim bought the site a few years later, maybe 2001, when ISTR legume told us all
to go and sign up at jack's new site (referred to above).

That's the short version, but yeah... Willow and Grey founded and ran the critter. Jack K. (who still hangs out at R'otica and allows me to pester the crap outta him a lot) bought it, then all Hell broke loose shortly thereafter. Google for those three names, and you'll discover more than you'd probably ever want to know.

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Quote - Some names to remember:

alleriluiauh (masacred spelling, but it was something like that.  She made the first great transmap for P4 Long Curly Hair.)

Radart - Lots of pics with bikini chicks and dinosaurs

Traveller - I'm sure he's still around somewhere.  I loved his morphs.

Ironbear - Still around I'm sure...3dcc

Radart is at PoserPros still. Traveller is @ RDNA (as mentioned by Dave). Ironbear went on long-term sabbatical (and was a store mgr. at Renderotica and Animotions).

Can't spell her name right either, but I haven't seen her in roughly forever.

Also, for Dale's pile:

Diane (she's still around) runs Renderotica, Mehndi evaporated in 2005 (copyright scandal),  and 3dUniverse (Steve, a.k.a. Dark Whisper) showed up in 2002, I believe - he's still kicking today, just off doing his own thang.

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Quote - .... creeps in humbly and in awe...

...says:
"Look at all the Old People telling it like it was way back then ! Wow...."

... creeps away....

Oh, pish - they suck. Call the nursing home and inform 'em that some of the inmates ran off again.

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Hell, I didn't even see Poser until version 4. I started on BSP - later on QOOLE (Quake Object-Oriented Level Editor), and UnrealEd (all of which were about as stable as a cork in a hurricane).

Oldest computers used when brand-new: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, and Mom's Macintosh (the original "Classic" one).

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