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

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June 2000 for me.

FlyByNight

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

You might as well PAY attention, because you can't afford FREE speech

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)

Message edited on: 01/06/2006 15:23

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

"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

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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."

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

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.

Message edited on: 01/06/2006 15:40

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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]

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

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! :)

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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!

Message edited on: 01/06/2006 17:16

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.

Jimdoria ~@>@

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

“The fact that no one understands you…Doesn’t make you an artist.”

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.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

The mind is so fragile.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

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

The GR00VY GH0ULIE!

You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock n roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

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.

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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

Funny YouTube video of the week - Bu De Bu Ai

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

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

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....

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

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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!)

ratscloset
aka John

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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-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

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.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

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.

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

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..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

November 11,2000

My idea of rebooting is kicking somebody in the butt twice!

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.

3dCritter

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??

Attached Link: Way Back Machine

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

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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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September11,1999

my favorites were advance jacketman his jacket was black I still don't know what made him advance and ultra morph woman which i believe is still available and don't forget the Sumo Baby I made a bunch of dancing Sumo baby animations and someone did a real cool animation of the matrix with Neo and Trinity on the roof with agent smith and Neo doing the bullet dodge those were the days

You might as well PAY attention, because you can't afford FREE speech

Anton, I remember; and I swear it was you. There was this render....it was Posette (before we called her that) And you had some image with her that bowled me away. You rendered a woman with all these treasures of gold and jewels and she was sitting like on this throne, and I remember a peacock feather or feathers in there somewhere. Am I ringing any bells? Anyway, I was BLOWN AWAY that someone could do a render like that with Poser. Back then realistic textures on a the characters were just not normally used. That was in the EARLY days. But I remember the render was awesome. It was an eon ago. But do you remember? Did she have white or platinum hair like in a beehive? What year would that have been. That was WAY before 1999? Or am I dreaming this? If not, do you still have that image? It would be fun to reminisce...

"I remember more then 1000 members in the forum at once would bring the server to a crawl" not much has changed then ;)

How about this for a Frontpage Headline:- Saturday, November 27, 1999 Gallery Posting Guidelines People in the forums demanded there be guidelines... (By Roy) - 18 opinions posted Have things really changed that much?

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Carcinogen Are you talking about this image?

“The fact that no one understands you…Doesn’t make you an artist.”

OK, as long as we're reaching deep into the past, there was an early Poser website that was named for a common Poser 2 runtime error (50?). I can't quite remember what it was or who owned it.

3dCritter

YES! That's it, Hawkfyr. Did Anton Do that? It was a whole image, though. That has been around a loooooong time.

And thanks for making me realize I am not crazy!

According to my profile sept 1 1999, but I go back to when this site first started and PFO before that.... Ah, those were the days my friends we thought that would never end..... sorry, couldn't resist. Anyway, Poser and Renderosity has been my window to the world for the last number of x years, especailly when I am having trouble with MS and can't get out or about.... Thanks guys, you'll never know how much you have help me over the years! Butch

Although my profile says August 6, 2000, I'm another old timer from the PoserForum days.
The picture of the queen shown above was done by Martin Murphy. The entire picture is in the color section of the Poser 5 manual. I seem to remember that there used to be a tutorial for how it was done somewhere online.

According to my profile I joined on Friday, March 24, 2000 but I was here before then when it was the Poser Forum Online run by Grey and Willow. BTW does anybody know whatever happened to them? I'm just curious. I started using Poser 3 in 1998 and stumbled across the PFO via a Webcrawler search. I was surprised to see so many people using this interesting program and I got quite a few tips from others. I tend to do most of my posting now over on the Poser newsgroup but I do post here once in awhile.

I Joined Willows Poser Forum online and followed it here. I joined Saturday, February 13, 1999 Those were the days. Helen

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If anyone sees a mind wandering aimlessly around..... It is mine. I want it back.

Artalgo is correct. Here is a link to the image. It's at the bottom of the page. http://www.artsforge.com/martin/murphy.html Last I heard, Martin was working for ILM. 3dCritter, it was called "Error Code 50" and it was the old chatroom for the PFO. :) Kenmac, the PFO just sort of faded away, I think mainly because everyone was going to forums that had stores, (or should I say stores that had forums........) I still miss the old PFO, (the very first online Poser forum) where it was all about art, not merchandise. I've been around since April 1998 when this site hosted Willow's Poser Forum Online. Yup Helen, those were the days. :) Coldrake

I joined here September 2000. Gosh.. been a while!

I have been an embarrassment to this forum since Oct or Nov 1999. I remember the site wars. I remember the arguments when Vue was first discussed. I remember the night MetaCreations announced it was dumping its graphics software, and everyone panicked about the first P4 patch ever being released (someone offered to distribute his beta). I remember pre-Vicky. I remember Pre-Rotica! There was no marketplace, until B-Bay. There was no trans-mapped hair! DAZ was still Zygote! I remember when JDK yelled at Allerleirauh (still can't spell it) and she ran away. I remember having only four or five consistent sources for freebies. I remember when Darth Logice was still Darth Logice and when RadArt was pretending to be two people.

I don't remember the name of Jack's old partner. Hmm. What was his name?

Those were the days.... Edited for more silly remembrances....

Message edited on: 01/06/2006 23:40

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking. He apologizes for this. He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below. His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

Yeah dirt is fun.

ANyway, so many names are on the tip of my tobhue, half remembered names of people who were around for years and vanished. So many have disappeared. I try to think whenever there was a significant shift in thinking, trends, etc I would venture to guess we are towards the end of the 4th age of Poser.

First Age of Poser:
Poser1 and 2
(Small but growing userbase. Community is born)

Second Age of Poser
Poser2 and 3
(Community grows and learns. People trying radical things to make the most of it. Poser3 causes huge surge of new users.)

Third Age of Poser
Poser4 and ProPack
(Lots of education and tutorials. Everyone learning and most contributing. Birth of Brokerages, site wars, commercial resentment, and grudgematches. OT forums, TOS, and warez prodominant issues. Poserdom goes commercial big-time)

Fourth Age of Poser
Poser5 and 6
(Blogs appear. Bipolar people inherit the forums, mods with agendas, rampant phychos and quiet intrigues. Merchants go quiet and stop posting. Market starts shrinking faster to balance fast growth of third age.)

So this year or next enter the Fifth age of Poser. ALways fun to speculate and watch. I forecast deamons, crusades, and asteroids. I see war in the clouds. lol.

Message edited on: 01/06/2006 23:53

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

Joined February 14, 1999 here and mid-summer 1998 at the original PFO. That really brings back some memories since Poser 3 was released shortly after I joined the PFO. The big feature on that release was the addition of a "Special Techniques" manual that showed how to build your own Poser figures. There was a mad rush at that point to figure out how exactly to do it since the methodology was still pretty obscure. I've included the front-pages from my website from shortly after all the techniques where worked out. These are some of the very first user-built Poser figures. We've really come a long way from those days!

The freebie I really remember is Jacketman. Wish I had a picture. Seemed so radical back then. was a figure with ffused clothing.

I remember when someone first made eyelashes transparent. Poser3 didn't have transparency if I remember.

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-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

igohigh I just unistalled those for good. Actually just unistalled everything pre-Apollo. I still love that Flytrap! Such a happy plant. It amazes me how much people must have stored on disk. Who was it that had that famous skirt tutorial?? was it Roy?

-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the face of truth is concealment."

Over 100,000 Downloads....

I've had to re-register twice, once in '99 and once in '00. The second time was a small glitch to the database that only affected a few members, or so I was told. If I recall correctly, I first wandered into R'osity in October of '98. I was putting together a Halloween page at the time and searching for resources. It looked a lot different back then. I go back to Poser 1.0, when the figures were part of the application, and only the textures were libraried. Pixel smoothing wasn't too hot either.

I guess I'm down for Oct. 99. Doug

I came, I rendered, I'm still broke.

Couldn't find Jacketman - but here for your viewing pleasure.... Ultra Morph Woman

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Quote - Best part of being around so long is you get dirt on everyone. lol. Well not everyone.

so clean I squeak LOL I'm a newbie... spring of 2003 for me :) But I lurked for 2 years, hehe Then my driving need to learn Poser got me posting and asking dumb questions, LOL

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Attached Link: the earliest i could find for rosity/pfo

my join date is 1/01 but i've been around since at least 98 or before. I was here when willow ran it. At the time i was Wynterfyre. ohh pfo looked way different back then

I did not know that Poser's creator: "Larry Weinberg is a grandson of early animation great Dave Fleischer. His pioneering contributions to computer animation software, and animation supervision, have helped win four Clio Awards, a special effects Emmy Award (for Star Trek -- Deep Space Nine), and an Academy Award for Best Special Effects (for Babe)."

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

Attached Link: http://www.poseworks.com/p4wishlist/

Wow, that's a time warp. I don't even remember managing the Bryce forum...

I suppose my most lasting contribution to Poser history was the Poser 4 Wishlist. I found the old files and uploaded it, for your viewing pleasure :-)

The wishlist was used as a guide for Poser 4's development (and clearly some of Poser 5 as well); it's interesting to look back on it and see the ways that some of the items made it into the software, while we still haven't seen others, and some are just plain crazy! (Who in their right mind would want to export files to Adobe Dimensions? Me, when I was 15 years old--that's who!)

Message edited on: 01/07/2006 02:53

What freebie did Zygote give us with posing hair?????

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What freebie did Zygote give us with posing hair?????

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I think it may have been a ponytail. I can't recall exactly--the only other one I can think of is the wavvy hair, but that wasn't free.

Sunday, September 03, 2000 for me. :)

"I like my species the way it is."

Wednesday, March 24, 1999 for me

As SAMS3D - 5/2001 As another name - 5/2000 - I actually forgot the name I use to use. I remember one of my first posts in 2001 was because someone didn't believe we made a model, thought we stole it, had to come in and defend myself....it was awful. Sharen

December,1999 also lurked earlier in PFO. Still raining, still lurking.

My current incarnation was signed up may 2004 but I've been hanging round causing trouble since just before they killed the Den.

Windows 7 64Bit
Poser Pro 2010 SR1

Been here since PFO days - October 98, Poser3. I had Poser 2 before that but never used it much - it was still too primitive then. Poser 3 was a total revelation!

Anyone remember Adam's wonderful shoes, from late '98?

:] Fish

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March 27, 2001 shortly after I got P4/ProPack.

Every organisation rests upon a mountain of secrets ~ Julian Assange

Was a member/lurker when the name was Poser forum, can't remember the joined date. And one of these day i will post a pic.

Message edited on: 01/07/2006 07:22

Been here since the PFO days. I always wanted the poser 3 Props cd zygote sold but never bought it. Anton, I have these ultra morph shoes for posette, 1 pair that morphs into 14 different ones, were those yours? They are still in my runtime.

Oct 2001, been mostly lurking since

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Jan. 15, 2000 Lurked for about a year before getting up the nerve to post an image ^ ^

Hi All, Just check my own profile and it says I joined way back Sunday, April 18, 1999. Used Poser 3,4,5,PP as well as Bryce, Photoshop, Illustrator & Lightwave (the last not much). Coincidence - I'm thinking of uploading some of my old images to my very sparse gallery before adding/creating new ones. And I just want to say what a wonderful, helpful community this is - I've had various queries answered over the years, from where can I get French knickers to why has Victoria 2 have such heavy eyebrows! Keep on rendering, martin

15th Feb 1999 here ... before that long time member at PFO :)

Greets

Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

I joined 12/31/2000. But, it seems like forever. Geeze, I miss this place, or how it was before, that is.

I was around when it was PFO also.

My date shows 4/5/2000, but I was also lurking around in the PFO days.

Attached Link: Digital Dreams Downloads

I only go back to October, 99. ;-)

Was at PFO before that, soon got fed up with Willow though, and never went back.

My first freestuff dates to late 99, the cheongsam still doesn't look all that bad, I think, I've since learned a lot, though!

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yep ... that freebie I remember well ;) greets Chris

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

Well ... 16 January 2000 is the date listed for me... But, I too was a member at PFO .. and other places. BUT ... i think my name was different ... I've had many NOTDAVIDS, reflashg, and a couple of others ... If I remember right, there was an email forum started by someone in Metacreations or Fractal .... way back, during Poser 2 I think. Does anyone recall that? It was like a cult back then ... the developers were all active online ... especially during the early metatool/metacreation times ..Raydream, early Bryce, Poser, Painter, power tools and all that.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

originally December of 98 or 99, been too damn long. Changed names a bit later and been consistent ever since...

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)

Anton Wrote Fourth Age of Poser Poser5 and 6 (Blogs appear. Bipolar people inherit the forums, mods with agendas, rampant phychos and quiet intrigues. Merchants go quiet and stop posting. Market starts shrinking faster to balance fast growth of third age.) This can't be right. You have been around before the 4th Age! (c; Seriously, I think all that has been here all along. That is why I exited the Forums for so many years! Came back to a whole new landscape. (Felt like Rip Van Winkle a little.)

ratscloset
aka John

back to pfo and I too remember the site wars, when the stores started, the uproar that caused I remember when if you even SAID the name of another site, you got bashed. I remember when things finally chilled and everyone finally started getting along (sorta). I remember getting to use poser imports in Bryce... While I was primarily "Bryce", poser was the #1 program used with it and while it was "heresy" to actually use poser in Bryce..I remember the ruckus it caused to do it because you weren't "pure". oooo..and how about the off topic forum? heh...there was a place to see fur fly! lol BT

ok, dug it out of my old stuff (gah, that was horrific). December 8th, 1999. I had bumped intot he site a couple months earlier, saw some pics that caught my interest. gettin me back into lurking mode, though, that's the real challenge...

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)

I'd say it was 1999, just a few weeks before the change over from PFO to Renderosity. I was called Dreamspinner then and was messing around with Poser 3 and Bryce 4.

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

Weapons of choice:

Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8

I apprently joined in 5/21/2000 after buying Poser 4 on eBay. Funny, but since then I don't recall there being a significant change in how people express themselves in forums. In fact, most forums, mailing lists, etc., have always seemed seem kind of the same -- helpful people mixed with antagonists, people who want to stay on topic vs. people who want to stray. I remember DAZ when it was Zygote and people complaining because they felt Vicky was unattractive. Now people complain because she looks like a supermodel. I don't think the first Vicky looked so bad -- here's a render of her for those who never met her.

Mike

February 12, 1999. What do I win?

"What do I win?" A date with the first Vicky. Rumor has it (at least egaeus says) she's quite attractive. You may end up in a temple with her but at least there's no dress code. And she can't get pregnant. [grin]

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

Well, the listing says, April 16, 1999, but I go along way back before that. Back to the Willow days before the 1st split...long before bondware. Hey, who else besides me ever used Poser 1, (on a Mac) or Poser 2 (on a PC)? -SMT

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

Looks like I qualify, Sept. 2001

Friday, August 13, 1999 is what Renderosity has on file, but I joined Willow's Poser Fourm "The Old Renderosity" back in 1997 I do believe. Everything here was FREE and Poser 3.0 was owned by Metacreations. Unlike most people here I liked Willow & Grey and hope that I can chat with them again someday soon. Graphics Software has came along way since the early days of 3D Fractal "1991" when I started working with this stuff. Glad to see the younger folks taking interest in 3D Graphics. A ton of great artist out there. -=Nomad=-

When I first started, it was after thye renderosity-PFO site war, but i was a member of both, and got along great with both. I knew a little about the site-war, but never really gave it much thought.

Jeff

Renderosity Senior Moderator

Hablo español

Ich spreche Deutsch

Je parle français

Mi parolas Esperanton. Ĉu vi?

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The PFO started in mid-98, I believe. Willow left Poserland permanently a couple of years ago; I doubt that she'll be back. Ian went underground; I believe that he's sitting out there in lurk mode, but I haven't spoken to him in several years. Most of the PFO's old staff and regulars (Dave_L, Heidi, RHatch, Lady Apphoenix, nite, and Tygerlander, among others) wound up at Wooyah, a site which still maintains the "free spirit" of the old days. We have RHatch to thank for inventing the MAT pose, for any of you young-uns in need of a history lesson. ;-)

I've been here since March 09, 2001 Hey, does that mean I get an extra vacation day on March 09 this year for 5 years service? ~rofl~

The liver is evil - It must be punished.

The PFO started in mid-98, I believe. That sounds about right - on my first visits to PFO I seem to recall perhaps one forum and a few downloads that were updated once a week - Wasn't it once called "Poser Freestuff" prior to Poser Forum Online?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

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No, it was always PFO (although the name may have truncated during its first week or two of life on the bseen boards, can't recall). The Funstuff section was always an important staple of the site, however--and proved to be a sore point when the PFO left poserforum.com (what is now Renderosity), which is why Renderosity has "Freestuff" today.

Thats it - Funstuff

I knew it was something stuff
I was trying to recall some of the members from when I first joined the PFO (apart from those mentioned such as Willow etc) but the only ones that really stick in my mind are Ghost, Paul Haefi and Phil C

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

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I joined in August 2001 I think...just after I got Bryce...

2/15/99 here, -- the week we all had to sign up again IIRC -- and was "floydd" at PFO before that.

Looks like, other than Tim Choate, it may be Dave_L, bushi or JeffH that was first in all with 2/10/99. (someone musta slipped them a hot tip to beat the rest of us hoy-palloy).

Great thread tas. Shaking a bunch of old familiar names outta the shadows.

heh -- just resorted members list and saw that Roy Riggs (remember "fur"?) had the thing set up and listed himself on 12/24/98 - and he passed through here again just last month.
btw, I think it was a piece posted somewhere by bushi of a NVIATWAS (actually with P3 Fem) battling some skeletons that led me to see what the heck this Poser app was. Still have that image around here somewhere

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That's because Roy was the site programmer at the time. Bondware was called "Egenet" back then IIRC. Tom

“The fact that no one understands you…Doesn’t make you an artist.”

I've been a member here since 2000. My membership data only shows 2002, but something happened to the account (timed out or some such) and when it was renewed, it had the new date. However, my first item purchase here was in 2000 and it was something made by ClintH! :-) I remember when this site didn't even have any means to change your own email address, and you had to write to an administrator to get them to do it for you, back in the days when Posette still ruled the roost and Vicki was sometimes known as Millie (short for Millenium). bonni

"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch." - Bette Davis

Things I remember ... Poppi's first "pop ... pop ... Poppi" The first Friday Night Redhead The first "Big Boob Weekly" The Pink Pony Endless numbers of "Hot 20" and nudity posts The California Dreaming thread I'm sure I'll think of more!

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