How old is this forum ?

[ariga]

How long has it been ? :D

[Doom9]

The old news are your friend. I first announced my forum on October 1st 2000. At that time it was ezboard based, but the ezboard content was later imported into vbb when we moved to vbb.

[Amnon82]

I guess vbb was first used on October 1st 2001 ;)
-> your join date ...

[Sirber]

All cool guys joined in october ;)

[zambelli]

In October 2001, that is. :)

[SeeMoreDigital]

Does anybody know how many founding October 2001 members are still active?


Cheers

[murattttt]

Mmmm... doom9 perhaps
Well I'd like to see gej, ddogg, ChristianHJW or everwicked and other old schoolers around the forum and just read for fun when they are in a good argument though this forum is now very crowded for anyone to get noticed (members passed way over 80000 as I recall).

I have been to many forums around those 5 years (joined here November 2001) but that place has always been the name of consistency, stability and good netiquette from the day it began.

By the way isn't it time doom9 started to franchise his own brand? I know many people going nuts for emule cups and stuff. We could also sell those geek toys to at least 80000 people I presume.

[Doom9]

well.. for the vbb part, Chris and me are the "founding" members and we're both still around. Admins around here tend to have a lot of sticking powers.
I don't recall who of the active mods was a mod back then.. we had few of them back in the day and I htink they've all since retired.. but it's been ages so who really knows. Plus, the ezboard is gone and so are all the imported posts and posts made since we started with vbb so I can't look at posts from mods that signed up before we went public with vbb.

[murattttt]

What about that brand marketing idea? Maybe the time with the long-awaited news update, you could also look for help in some sort of affiliate program with the readers in line with the celebration of (probably more than) five years of continuing to be the "hip place" of movie back-ups.
Hey just something like a toy-shop what I want is with big bold doom9 official brands on them, so as to say.

[siddharthagandhi]

how'd u get so popular? theres freakin 80,000 members

[Shinigami-Sama]

I'd buy a doom9 t-shirt o.O

anyways, it does seem lots of old staff seem to disapper through the years in forums, over in my current forum of choice, we have what.. 7 admins, 1 of whom is active, then me, the head mod, and a few staff that retired, its interesting to say the lest.

[Razorblade2000]

woohooo

Join Date: Oct 2001

[markrb]

Has it really been 5 years?
I joined a couple of months before the switch.
I can't believe how quickly time has flown by.

If you remember I got a personalized plate that said DOOM9 3 years ago when I moved to NH. I since got rid of it because they charge a bunch extra per year for special plates.

Mark

[Doom9]

Do you still have the plate? We have to put it up in the museum of Doom9 memorabilia. Live free or die - there's no more fitting one liner for what we're doing here.. live free from the opression of copyright cartels.

[Rockas]

I usually never regret anything I ever do... but there's one thing I regret... "haven't found this community sooner" :(

But I sure to be PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF SUCH A GREAT FAMILY :D

keep it UP guys

by the way.... when will be the first members reunion in Portugal? :D

note: keep it in low voice or we may have PJ... FBI or the CIA as unwanted guests lol

[markrb]

I don't think so although I will look.
I kept it for over a year, but I think in a cleaning fit, which is rare, but very dangerous, I threw it out.

Mark

[PhAtfiSh]

Humm, i didnt realise the vbb forum was actually opened in Oct 2001. I didnt think i was here when it opened, heh :)

[mikegun]

All cool guys joined in october ;)

so I'm a cool guy then ... :cool:

[Koepi]

There must be a few more mods from the time before the switch? I don't believe I'm the only "mod only"-survivor ;-)

Well, it's been quite some time since it all started here. I and many other mods are much more busy in RL in the meantime which I regret a little, but I think many things we wanted to have were developed in the meantime. The forum is much more about support than about development now. I like that as I haven't much time to code anymore :)

Cheers
Koepi

[SeeMoreDigital]

Jeez...

I wonder how many more old timers (I was going to say old farts) are going to pop out of the wood work?

Nice to have you back guys... I feel like a newbie ;)


Be seeing you!

[bond]

<- 1 month too late ;)

[Nic]

@Bond: Where were u? ;)

The only reason I'm so high (at user number 519) was I took so long to sign up here, the ezboard one was running and I guess I didn't like change so didn't sign up till almost the very end of the ezboard days....

....There's a lot of us old time posters about :) The good old days when things were so fresh and exciting...

-Nic

ps
User number 11 at hydrogenaudio too :)

[jonny]

so the board was quite new when i've joined

The good old days when things were so fresh and exciting

i'm a nostalgic too :)
(hi Nic!)

[maven]

I still pop in from time to time...
What was interesting / challenging then, is less than trivial now... To me the majority of posts are now about things like interoperability of "standards", or tweaking entry 61 in the quantization matrix.
Although thankfully, there is still some new ideas left... :)
228!

[kururu]

I must have the biggest lurker award or something. I joined in 2002, lurked for about a year before that... and only 17 posts (inclucing this one)

[madluther]

Those days brings back some memories, Flaskmpeg v0594 , its avisynth plugin, tmpgenc (V11e I think) and its avisynth plugin, and avisynth 0.3 , all running at about 1.5 fps on my old PII. Things have sure changed since then.

[BigDid]

All cool guys joined in october ;)
Hemmm,

Reverse engeenering: joined also in October but much later, consider still a noob so I'll try/tend/do my best to be/get cool :cool:

Did

[hulkenstrong]

Holy crap I joined in 2001 dec!? Dam time flies by to dam fast.

And missed the "cool guy" date by only a few months.

[Bird Brain]

man i just joined. seems like 50 years ago when all you joined!:stupid:

[cofferscuffs]

Oldskooler reporting in.

[smok3]

I'd buy a 'clueless n00b' t-shirt for sure :)

[lgcbmb]

Being one of the "old timers" it has been interesting seeing the evolution of doom9. It has been the best place for encoding/transcoding information and discussion for at least 7 years. And still is.

We went from trancoding DVD to vcd/svcd/dvd and now 1:1. The future, as always, holds higher bit rates.

It is great to see that doom9 still provides the discussions, reasoned arguments and innovation that will inform a new generation of (trans)coders.

Thanks doom9.

[~bT~]

80k registered users!

i browsed a couple of years @ the least before i joined & i'm sure there are many thousands more doing the same.