Earliest Subsim forum member - you? Prove it!

[Onkel Neal]

The Subsim Radio Room forums began in ~1998-99, with a Matt's CGI script forum. Unfortunately, all those threads are gone. :dead:

Then we switched to a hosted forum, EZBoard. Sniff, them's all gone, too. :cry: Edit: the posts are gone but the Wayback Machine still lists the threads and forums here. (http://web.archive.org/web/20000831032039/www.subsim.com/ssr/)

And around 2002 I got bold and setup a phpBB 1.4.4 forum (http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/), and we have most of the threads and discussions from then until now, progressing through phpBB 2.19 (http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_archive1/) and the current vBulletin premier software.

Members come and go, but there are some who still post regularly here. Bill Nichols, John Channing, EAST, Deamon, XabbaRus, kilorocky, and others come to mind.

My challenge to you: if you have been posting here since way back, search the archives (http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/) and post a link to your earliest post. If you want to claim time from the Matt's Script/EZBoard era. make a claim and post some recollections from that time, what you remember discussing, with whom, and what was the big deal at that time. :) Post your memories, claims, and flat out lies here.

The winner will receive a Subsim Ping Prize, which you can brag about or sell on ebay and then retire.

Good hunting!
Neal

[Sailor Steve]

Post your memories, claims, and flat out lies here.
I taught Neal everything he knows, and I helped set up the original forum. I also helped set up the Cavalla museum, where I was most useful because I actually served on that submarine during the First World War. I jumped ship in Vietnam to lead the first airborne in the attack on Suk Muk Dik, but was back on board in time to help negotiate the Paris peace talks. Most recently I helped put out the great Subsim fire, for which I was awarded the Blessed Ugly Lady's Loving Safety and Health In Texas medal.

When people talk about me, they talk about my way with women, my straight shootin', my scintillating conversation and rousing wit, not to mention my muscular body and heroic chiseled jaw; but mostly they speak of my overwhelming modesty.

As well they should.

[Koondawg]

I drove the horse and buggy, which by a miracle, made it through the snow, uphill both ways, against the earths rotation, to deliver the coffee can and string internet to Neals shack...:lol:

PS: The date it shows me joining got FUBAR'd when the Subsim fire Steve so bravely fought to put out...

[STEED]

When people talk about me, they talk about my way with women

Whens the book coming out?

[Koondawg]

Whens the book coming out?

short story....still in publication :rotfl:

[Letum]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)

[Platapus]

I remember my first post here

I was in a discussion with Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel. We used to call him CJ. His screen name was Cornyzoom. We were discussing the designs of Willy Bourne (screen name StrokerSub)

I remember it well as our discussion was derailed by John Wilkins who went by the screen name Bishop.

Gosh it seemed like only yesterday. :yep:

[Biggles]

I'm a real greenhorn....

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=97722&page=3&highlight=Harbor+raid

My very first post is on page three of that thread....

[Chad]

I searched the archives for awhile, and I found the earliest post i could find, and it was on my old nickname U-421.. The nickname i used for the WPL also.

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_archive1/viewtopic.php?t=19671

Obviously based on how i was talking, it seems like it goes further back. I was a member of WPL clear back around July 2001, a bit before SH2 was initially released.

[Spoon 11th]

I'm not the oldest member, but here's my oldest post that is still available:

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=7&forum=9

Anybody remember the gorilla picture I made? It had the 11th flotilla emblem tattooed to it's shoulder. EZBoard era I presume. Spring/summer 2001 while waiting for SH2.

[AVGWarhawk]

I'm certainly not the oldest member as I joined in 2005. I did nothing but lurk or was busy playing IL2 and did not hang here much. Then, low and behold in 2006, I start a thread and poll that would probably get locked in a New York minute these days:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=99093


:rotfl:

[Syxx_Killer]

I guess when I look at my profile and view all my posts, they don't go as far back as when I joined. :oops: I joined back in 2003 (I can't believe it has been that long!). I had lurked around a bit before that when I got Jane's 688i Hunter-Killer. I remember downloading a patch for it off Subsim. Anywho, what got me to sign up and register was a contest for Dangerous Waters or SH3 I believe. I don't remember which sim it was (or maybe Sub Command). All I had to do was post in the thread to be entered for a chance to win the game and I think the devs would sign it. I probably got the contest bit all wrong by now, but that is the gist of it. :lol:

[Sailor Steve]

Whens the book coming out?

short story....still in publication :rotfl:
:rotfl:

How well they know me. But the true, inspiring and and heavily edited version is set to be started as soon as my ghostwriter, the legendary novelist Johann Sebastian (Brag for short) Balz can find the time to get away from selling his equally legendary tea cozy collection on Ebay.

[nikimcbee]

I found subsim pre- SH2 days, but under a different user name. I couldn't find myself in there.:cry: I was the first one to post about problems with the AI for the destroyers in SH2.

The old E:rt posts are funny to read. All of the promised features:roll: :nope: (flyable aircraft, land, etc; then there's multiplayer:nope: ) I think every 3 months there's a post that multiplayer is "almost" ready:rotfl: :roll: .

[Blacklight]

I wasn't signed up back then so I didn't post, but I read the boards regularly. It's wierd because I remember reading a lot of those posts about 688i HK.

Another wonderful thing I discovered in that archive is links to two 688i HK sites that are actually still up and have downloads. I've been pretty much unable to find downloads for 688i anywhere !:up:

Here is a link for custom scenarios. There's a bunch there that aren't posted in the download area of Subsim:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9243/688/688missions.html

Also, since 688i has a hard time running right with more than a certain ammount of scenarios in it's scenario folder, here's a link to a utility to manage them that is still up :
http://www.lrim.com/scmgmt/help/toc.html

I'd love to get my hands on more of those old missions ! I recall Seawolves back then had hundreds (Which I had and then lost the floppies they were on) :nope:

I also remember reading this thread and having a bit of a laugh:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=8314&forum=9&43

[geetrue]

03-19-2007, 06:12 PM

#25 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=450813&postcount=25)

geetrue (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=210421)

Cold War Boomer




Join Date: Jan 2002

Location: Walla Walla
Posts: 1,547


Quote:
Originally Posted by waste gate
To be fair this thread should be established. If you have anything to contribute this will be the place to place it. 'Code' may be usefull for the folks at UbiSoft.

To be fair you should purchase the game and then complain, wastegate ...

your just stirring things up for personal reasons that you evidently have left undisclosed ...

I've been a sub sim member since 1999 and never have I seen anyone start a thread like the one you just started about how everyone shouldn't purchase the game.

What's in it for you to make everyone angry ... you don't even come over here. You should go sit it out and think about it.

Watch out which side your own everyone ... his vanity is showing
(notice no smiley's)
__________________


03-19-2007, 09:00 PM

#49 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=450994&postcount=49)

geetrue (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=210421)
Cold War Boomer




Join Date: Jan 2002

Location: Walla Walla
Posts: 1,547


Quote:
Originally Posted by Reece
Quote: Reece
Geetrue said: I've been a sub sim member since 1999
But under your avator it says: Join Date: Jan 2002.Sorry Geetrue, just had to do it!
I can answer that question better than the attorney general can answer why he fired those eight attorney's ... lol
You see when I joined in 1999 ... Neal had a different server and as the forum kept growing he changed it like three times to what it is today. Which resets join date and number of post ...

I use to be geetrue2 and enjoyed many good visits to subsim.com to fellowship with like minded people in love with submarines and submarine sims ...

You should have seen the thread wars we had in the old days ... Those guys really knew how to fling it too, but SH2 came and went, SH3 is still hanging in there and SH4 will be top sub sim as soon as the modders get through.

If the good Lord be willing I'll still be here for SH5 ...

03-19-2007, 09:35 PM

#52 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=451028&postcount=52)

Reece (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=212662)
Ocean Warrior




Join Date: Sep 2003

Location: Down Under
Posts: 3,237


@Geetrue: Well slap my mouth!!


I have more proof than my own witness a year and a half ago ... i have old sea stories on a back up hdd ... I'll go find them.

I've been onboard since 1999 ... started out as geetrue2.

Been through several server changes ... someone said those old sea stories were still floating around out there in the wheeo' wheeo' world.

Ask Torplexed or Takada ... I was here before they were ... I was here for 911 waiting for Destroyer Command to come out.

Plus I think I attended the first or second sub sim meeting in Los Angeles in the spring of 2002.

I've wandered around the web, but subsim's international community is the best for getting a good feeling for what other people in the world think ... sim wise and world news wise.

[Onkel Neal]

Post your memories, claims, and flat out lies here.
I taught Neal everything he knows, and I helped set up the original forum. I also helped set up the Cavalla museum, where I was most useful because I actually served on that submarine during the First World War. I jumped ship in Vietnam to lead the first airborne in the attack on Suk Muk Dik, but was back on board in time to help negotiate the Paris peace talks. Most recently I helped put out the great Subsim fire, for which I was awarded the Blessed Ugly Lady's Loving Safety and Health In Texas medal.

When people talk about me, they talk about my way with women, my straight shootin', my scintillating conversation and rousing wit, not to mention my muscular body and heroic chiseled jaw; but mostly they speak of my overwhelming modesty.

As well they should.

Man, I think we've found our press agent! :rotfl:

[StdDev]

...Plus I think I attended the first or second sub sim meeting in Los Angeles in the spring of 2002.




I've wandered around the web, but subsim's international community is the best for getting a good feeling for what other people in the world think ... sim wise and world news wise.





Tis True!! I was there with ya G!

As I recall Neal was in LA at some game convention and several of us met him at his hotel and we went out to dinner.

Back in them thar days I spent my time on the Wolf Pack League board..
I remember makin plans on how we would decimate the Destroyer Command players when it finally released...
.. and then when DC was released I became one of the several *ahem* fairly adept Destroyer captains :p
In fact I was leader of First Fleet for quite a while when I succeeded Onager
http://204.102.211.104/images/1stmascot.gif

I do miss those days............... ;)

[Chad]

I remember ole Onager :up:

For awhile, I was Flotilla Commander of the 29th Flotilla, and was suceeded and given command of the 3rd Flotilla.

Those were the good days, I still look fondly back at WPL and the times we had :D

[Fish]

My first post must be back in 1999, no proof of course.
I was one of the people on the 'Fix My 688(I) Campain?
With my real name that is.
Kurt Sailor
David Oliver
Gerald Lanier
Jacob A. Boswell
Mike Curtis
Christopher Flynn
Kelly Crowe
Jengham
Nathan Crossno
Willem Peschier
Saint-Jean André
Jeff Hogueison
Kevin


I found some older post with Fish, but thats not me, I remember I couldn't register back in with my nick (Fish) when the old forum didn't exist anylonger.
http://web.archive.org/web/20001109015400/www.subsim.com/ssr/
There are post from 2001.

PS:

I found a older post by Capt Fish (didn't remember that nick). :)


Capt Fish
Mate
Posts: 1
(1/28/01 9:05:58 am)

Re: Big big problems with 688(i)
Hi Horrgakx, did you try the SeaWolves message board?
I am sure you not alone with your system spec.
Fish




http://web.archive.org/web/20001109015400/www.subsim.com/ssr/

Personal info:
Age. 61

Location. The Netherlands

Occupation. Retired

Hobbies. Fishing, especialy Fly-fishing. http://web.archive.org/web/20010906231044/http://seawolves.reaper.org/fleets/688/10thFleet/basal/Blinky.gif

Personal Bio. today, fleet commander of the 10th fleet, SeaWolves.



This post is even 20 days older:
3/8/01 4:11:33 am
by: Capt Fish

[kiwi_2005]

I wish i could prove it, all i remember is i ordered a cd with mods on it from Subsim for SH2, unless Neal keeps records of who buys what he might find one from a Guy in New Zealand and hopefully that was me!. What i do know back then around 2000 and up is i had to be taught how to make my own email address by a work mate i remember that clearly as he showed me how to make a hotmail address up! :) As i had no internet at home only at work so i was new to signing up to sites. But damn if i know what my user name would of been i had some guesses as i was a big fan of Quake with the user names "Kaos36" & Frank36 - Frank my name 36 was my age, so maybe I signed up on subsim with one of those names? Ive search some of the archives but with no luck. :damn:

Maybe one day i'll remember the name and find it on here.:hmm:

[Sailor Steve]

OH!

MY!

GOD! (or goddess or karma or whatever floats your boat)!!!

Thank you, Spoon 11th! Your link to the old forums let me look around, and I found MY real first-ever post:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=7343&forum=1&8


p.s. It seems I joined at the very end of December 2002; not November as it says here. But don't try to fix it, Neal. Remember what happened last time?
:rotfl:

[edit] Looking at the way I wrote that, I suspect that I did join in November but didn't post for awhile. Getting the lay of the land and all.

[Koondawg]

How well they know me. But the true, inspiring and and heavily edited version is set to be started as soon as my ghostwriter, the legendary novelist Johann Sebastian (Brag for short) Balz can find the time to get away from selling his equally legendary tea cozy collection on Ebay.

What now Steve...a pop-up book? :hmm:

[Hitman]

Hey I also found my first ever post at the subsim forums :D

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=5492&forum=1

And guess what? It was about the chances of converting SH2 to the Pacific and US submarines :rotfl:

P.S. Looking at the join/post date (22 september 2002) I was still 29!! (If only for a few days)

[RickC Sniper]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=1&forum=1

I wasn't here before Bill Nichols or John Channing and I'm not as good a liar as Sailor Steve but I deserve the prize.
:p :p

If you look carefully, you'll see that Neal has 0 posts and I have over 150, so I was here posting BEFORE Neal even created Subsim, so I WIN !!

[geetrue]

Thank you StdDev for the confindence building witness of we were there ... but that was 2002, right?

About five of us and Neal I do believe ... I had to pull over in Orange County on my way back to San Diego and climb in back to take a rest I was so tired, but it was a lot of fun to finally meet people in person that had previously just been user names.

But I got here to the old Sub Club in 1999 ... surely Neal has a member list from the old days somewhere ... did the WPL have numbers of when we signed up?

Here's the first post from a simple online search that I can find:

geetrue2
Ancient Submariner
Posts: 7
(11/8/01 10:43:22 pm)
Reply more mystery

I want to explore harbors on my own and run into trouable. I've explored two harbors so far after blowing or completing the other missions. Cape Town in South Africa and Norfolk in the USA.

I just wandered around the harbor in Cape Town and blew up the city and warfs, but in Norfolk a patrol plane kept coming in for me.

I want to see ships and activity in the ports and get credit for sinking a tug or a barge or whatever comes along. Did they have sub nets in WWII? Put them in the game. We should be able to shoot up a shipyard for example and then try to make a safe get away.

I understand if you just want it to be like historical, but I want to change history for $39.95.

I found my old sig too:

"Lucky are those that can escape the dreariness
of everyday life." "How many reach the end
without ever having lived?"
Vito Dumas

[FIREWALL]

To all you Newbie's. :D

I tawt all these's guys everything they know and more.:know:

I'm just so old I can't remember when or how. :p

[August]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)

:rotfl:
This post wins the thread! :up:

[Seminole]

Here is my Oldest: that I could trace but I think there are earlier posts by me...'cause this one is number 21..I go back 2 months before this.

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=6450&forum=1

And it been an honor being so helpful to so many.

[McBeck]

From the EzBoard days (2000)
I passed by looking for patches for SH1 and found news of the upcoming SH2.
Later SH2 was released and I can remember the big fuss when the MP patch for SH2 was on the way. It released in February/March 2002 I think.
Thats the earliest I can remember....I also remember sharing some photos of my apartment.

Partial proof:
Recent Posts. http://web.archive.org/web/20010719092642/http://www.ezboard.com/controlcenter/image/1.gif
Silent Hunter & Aces
Re: Aces Of the Deep in WinME

Silent Hunter & Aces
Re: Isn't this the month for SH2 release?

Silent Hunter & Aces
Re: where can i download a English Version sh?

Silent Hunter & Aces
Re: Demo!!!!!!!

Silent Hunter & Aces
Re: unknown

Silent Hunter & Aces
Re: SH2 Computer Requirements? (http://www.silenthunter.dk)
11th September 2001:
I remember clearly the whole DeerhunterUK scare! He was supposed to go to the WTC, but didnt that morning for some reason.
We thought he had and that we had lost him :(

Subsim phpbb
Post since February 2002:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=61&forum=3

[Sailor Steve]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=1&forum=1

I wasn't here before Bill Nichols or John Channing and I'm not as good a liar as Sailor Steve but I deserve the prize.
:p :p

If you look carefully, you'll see that Neal has 0 posts and I have over 150, so I was here posting BEFORE Neal even created Subsim, so I WIN !!
I don't know...

I see five posts by Neal in that thread alone, and it still says 0. I'm thinking it's some kind of evil Texas juju. I wouldn't mess with it.

[Anachronous]

I've been here a while, but i mostly lurk :P

[SUBMAN1]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)
:rotfl:
This post wins the thread! :up:BS. I was the first! I've been playing sub sims since the days when graphics were done with ASCII characters! Someone one day decided that wasn't enough and made GATO with 4 colors! I was going to make a board, but Neal beat me to the punch. That is why I refused to post on his board when it first started, but I was one of the first! :p

-S

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3805/gatodr9.gif

[bookworm_020]

I will be the oldest subsim member in 65 yesrs. All that came before me will have been sent to davy jones locker by then! Till then, I shall keep reminding you of that day in the future!:smug:

[NealT]

I remember when Neal's house was just a large field...

Does that count?

[Seminole]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)
:rotfl:
This post wins the thread! :up:BS. I was the first! I've been playing sub sims since the days when graphics were done with ASCII characters! Someone one day decided that wasn't enough and made GATO with 4 colors! I was going to make a board, but Neal beat me to the punch. That is why I refused to post on his board when it first started, but I was one of the first! :p

-S

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3805/gatodr9.gif



Well if that counts as "evidence" then double BS.. :smug: I've been playing subsims since I was six...I had a baking soda powered one for the bathtub...and a red and grey plastic one ,also for the bath, that actually fired spring powered torpeos...then there was the periscope that I won at the county fair and painted sub mark lines on the lens... I used that to play with when while I watched SILENT SERVICE on TV..which hadn't been invented all that long...never mind computers..that takes me back to age 6 or 7 ...then there is my hypnotist's report,if you can believe her, that I had a past life as a German submariner back in WWII...need I go on...:lol: ;) :lol:

[Nisgeis]

Many years ago, Sailor Steve and Neal came to me, asking for my help to set up the forums. I remember it clearly as I'd just devised a means of producing operationally safe cast iron cannon and had some spare time. I said:

"Sure I'll help thee, as I like the cut of both of yer jibs. My, how handsome you are Sailor Steve, you must get many a bashful look from the good womenfolk about these parts. For sure this war with the French will be over soon, we have the cannon to best them in combat! Cast Iron is the metal of the future I tells thee. But be warned! With thy plan for a board, one day, someone will make a joke so awful that ye be not sure if ye laughed and then groaned, or groaned and then laughed. Either way, you'll groan."

I'd like to take this opportunity to say:

"I told you this day would come"


I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)

[Catfish]

Hi,
don't know but it was before 2000 that i found Neal's forum. I have been playing "Silent service II" for PC, and "Wolfpack", and "Hunt for Red October", and "Das Boot" then.
When i registered in subsim.com first it was by the name of "Fish", however after some new forum software someone from the Netherlands "stole" this name, so i changed to "Catfish".
Was the first registered name of "Fish" in 98 or 99 ?

B.t.w. i still wonder if i sent this book of the russian sub to Neal, and whether he really received it back then :hmm: . I know i got Fast Attack from him when i could not find it here - man i was happy ! :cool:

Greetings from Germany,
Catfish

[dean_acheson]

Joined: Feb 27, 2002
Posts: 16
From: Washington DC
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/images/posticon.gifPosted: 2002-02-28 14:29 Sorry to bother you, but after 25 days, will the forum link on Subsim.com come directly to the new forum site?
thanks

Neal Stevens

Joined: May 06, 2006
Posts: 0
From: Houston, Texas
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/images/posticon.gifPosted: 2002-02-28 14:31 Yes, probably in about a week.

Scion

Joined: Feb 27, 2002
Posts: 549
From: Wellington, New Zealand
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/images/posticon.gifPosted: 2002-02-28 20:02 A week?!?!?!?

Neal Stevens
Joined (http://Joined): May 06, 2006
Posts: 0
From: Houston, Texas
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/images/posticon.gifPosted: 2002-02-28 21:50 Ok, how about now?? Just use the New Subsim Forums link near the top.

I am you humble servant from the country province of Texas,
Neal
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[dean_acheson]

I came aboard looking for info about the original SH, before the turn of the century.

[Lane]

Neal,

Lane Checking in.:D A Little older Age 71 But still around.:D

Have DW, and SC Installed. And check in daily to read the topics on Sum Sim Forums.

Have had SH3 Installed, but Removed it again.
I just Don't like the long Load time of that Sim. That's just me.:D

I have e-mail contact with Jim Wolford and he is still around.
I can't remmber the guy who had some of the first SH1 forums.
That was a long time ago.
Regards
Lane :D

[clayton]

Seems Lane has me beat! :D

[seaniam81]

wow I sure aint the oldest member but i found my very first topic I started http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_archive1/viewtopic.php?t=33915

I had just got DW and was into that running it on a pc that was underspec, I had just got the Pacific Aces mod for SH2 (That I loved and still like, Good job guys) Man those were the days... I think i'm going to have to install DW again. Oh check out my location, lol, I remember that my goverment wanted to court martial the skipper of the HMCS Chicoutimi after it cought on fire.

[geetrue]

Hey! I just found an old email in my folder: This will prove beyond a doubt that I was here before all of you other rascal's :arrgh!:

Neal Stevens
Joined (http://joined/): January 10, 1999
Posts: 0
From: Houston, Texas
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/images/posticon.gifPosted: 1999-05-31 Welcome aboard geetrue2 we don't get too many real submarine saliors here on subsim. Feel free to correct us if we get off the mark, remember no profane talk here, no sea stories that graphically expose the real lives of submarine saliors on the beach, bar scenes, etc We want to be a good outlet for the younger generations to feel comfortable here on subsim, other than that have a good time.

Your welcome to anything in the fridge too ... the key is under the big rock next to the catus plant.
your humble servant from the country province of Texas,
Neal

[horsa]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html) I wish I'd thought of that ……




My first post :-
Anyone know how to access/modify JRF files?

Any pointers appreciated.

And still doing it ….. rusting away on “Iron Seas”

Not the longest serving poster but any prizes for consistency ?

[Te Kaha]

Started posting at subsim.com September 2001, was playing Sub Command back then, and doing lots of graphics for that sim, ships and planes, also a couple custom missions (Hauraki Havoc for example).

I still remember old forum members from back then, people like XabbaRus and Thomasew.

Was AWOL for at least 4 yrs or so, and only recently came back to submarine simming (SH3 which I no longer play, and now SH4) - was no question for me about where to look for hints and mods - there's no place around like this one :up:

[cdrsubron7]

I've been around Subsim since 1998. My family got their first computer back then. It was a Compac 350 mhz computer. A little after I got online and found out about SHI and could not get it to run until someone here at SubSim gave the directions on how tog SH1 working. If you look under downloads on the SubSim website and SHI. You'll see two things for Custom Missions made by Jeff Johnson (that's me). Don't post all that much anymore, but I still come around on a daily basis to check on what's happening.


I'm right at the top of the list.


5/9/2002 is the earliest post I see in that old forum .

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewforum.php?forum=6&start=0

[Captain Nemo]

I'm not the oldest member by a long shot, but here's the link to my oldest post I can find in the archive http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=752&forum=2 . I was an SC fan back in those days and still play it occassionally but SHIII/GWX seems to take up most of my gaming time these days.

Neal - I have often thought that the oldest active member should have the highest ranked avatar rather than link it to the number of posts a member has submitted, but I suppose that would not be easy to do.

Nemo

[Pioneer]

The oldest message on the linked forums for myself dates back to January 2003, but before that there was another board. It was simple to use and banter went back and forth, but there wasn't much banter going on 3 September 2000 around 2300 AEST.

That was the moment that the game Iron Wolves was turned off.:cry:

I was prowling in the SW after performing yet another Area 51 excursion. On line at the time were Mongoose, Tbar, Buxton, Taffy, Silvercat, Silvercat, Erich the Red(?). Popeye had 'vanished' about an hour before and never came back. My bud Drizzt had just racked up his highest score ever in a lite sub (I'm gonna say 935000). We had not long before just looked at the high scores kept by On Line (the provider of the game) and we were talking about the proliferation of names on that list.

I had a listing in the top 10 of all missions, and was in the all time high score of every vessel - except the DD. (Even my eldest was in front of me in a DD)

We were talking about a forthcoming trip I had when all of a sudden, the server went dead, and never came back to life.

On this, and another board, we logged our approaches back and forth and what we were doing, refunnds on unused credits, continued debitting of our accounts, no answer at their office. A sour taste left after a great period in time.

Advertisement: Deep Six (http://www.deepsix-online.com) seeks to capture those "good old days".:arrgh!:

[Neptunus Rex]

2002-09-27


http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=5583&forum=2

[SS107.9MHz]

I claim to be the oldest one for no particular reason!
My first post has been lost to the sands of time but I remmber fondly when we had sylex made mouse pointers and the smiley were made with the blood of the respective animal we had slain that night and brought to the cave, where the family group would sit by the fire and play SH 0.-00003.1 beta...:ping:

[STEED]

I posted here before the big bang. :smug: :lol:

[Sailor Steve]

I posted here before the big bang. :smug: :lol:
And considering how much you've posted since it must not have been all that big.:rotfl:

[STEED]

I posted here before the big bang. :smug: :lol:
And considering how much you've posted since it must not have been all that big.:rotfl:

You can talk you been posting before the big bang. :yep:

Ask Steve about the void and he will tell all if your nice to Steve.

[Tinfish]

Back in them thar days I spent my time on the Wolf Pack League board..
I remember makin plans on how we would decimate the Destroyer Command players when it finally released...
.. and then when DC was released I became one of the several *ahem* fairly adept Destroyer captains :p
In fact I was leader of First Fleet for quite a while when I succeeded Onager

Remember the BB Melee's? So much fun.

Don't actually know how long I've been around, I think since mid 2001.
Edit: My profile says Feb so there you go. I was a mere 14 year old then.

[Sailor Steve]

You can talk you been posting before the big bang. :yep:

Ask Steve about the void and he will tell all if your nice to Steve.
In the words of an old song by the Kingston Trio:

I was born a hundred thousand years ago;
And there ain't a single thing that I don't know.
I've seen everything that's been,
Around the world and back again;
And I'll WHUP the man who says it isn't so!


Yes, be nice to Steve; but not because you will learn something special, or because you'll be punished if you don't. Be nice to Steve because it's the nice thing to do.:sunny:

[Task Force]

Im not the oldest by a longshot, but ive got quite a fiew posts in ever sense I joined.:cool: Joined mid july. Was lurking around for a couple of months.;) I guess il tell ya where I came from. I use to be on the ship simulator fourms, Then one day when I was lurking around here, I noticed that the SH4 section wasnt open anymore... I knew that Reece was a member on this fourm so I asked him ( he is/was on there to) He told me about what happend and that was what gave me the push to join SS. Then there was a topic about what you would like to have put into a add on for the game, I mentioned that Id like a bismark or warship add on, Then All H*** broke loose. One guy got sarcastic with me and I said good buy to that place. They have a issue with warships without working guns being put in the game.:shifty: But I tell you one thing. I wish I would have joined SS sooner.:D

[Kataki]

I posted first! I used the CSX-1 to post on these board in '67

Actual pic of me preforming complex calculus problems in my head while attempting to post into the future sometime last Thursday.
http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/images/history/ILLIAC2.jpg

[geetrue]

That computer was too old Kataki ... and if that was you ... you would be dead by now lol

Neal was using the newer stuff for a server when he started out ... I even dated his secretary back in highschool ... no sh**

http://theworldwideweather.com/churchcomputer.jpg

[FIREWALL]

That computer was too old Kataki ... and if that was you ... you would be dead by now lol

Neal was using the newer stuff for a server when he started out ... I even dated his secretary back in highschool ... no sh**

http://theworldwideweather.com/churchcomputer.jpg

I'm so old... she looks spank'in age to me. :p

[Wolfehunter]

I'm new as a member but not to the forum. I've wander the net for various thing since 96. When I would look for naval or WW2 informations on games related many sites would direct me here. Especially for wolfpack way back then.;)

:nope: Unfortunately I never really got into Subsim then because my interest were onto other things. I regret it today that I didn't sign up earlier because I see now the wonderful people here and the old dinosaurs who continue to keep this forum alive. All I should have done was take a bit more time reading the forum to understand the potential Subsim offers then I might have been ancient like you guys. :p

Compared to other forums I've been member to Subsim feels like a family at a gathering. We have good days and bad day. We laught and fight. We drink and party. We cuss and appologize. People from all over can come and share some thoughs, experiance and fun. On occation some of us get spanked....:damn: and meet bernard behind the bars. :arrgh!:

So what I'm trying to say is... Thank you oldinos for keeping this site going. :rock:

[nikimcbee]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)
:rotfl:
This post wins the thread! :up:BS. I was the first! I've been playing sub sims since the days when graphics were done with ASCII characters! Someone one day decided that wasn't enough and made GATO with 4 colors! I was going to make a board, but Neal beat me to the punch. That is why I refused to post on his board when it first started, but I was one of the first! :p

-S

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3805/gatodr9.gif

That's me! I used to post 3x5 cards on the fridge regarding gato and wait for people to reply to my map book I made in the 7th grade for gato.:up:

[Gorduz]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=665&forum=2

My first post, though I know for sure that i joined this board before SH2 came out. My love for subgames was found as I borrowed GATO from my father and then downloaded the SH demo. A short while after I bought the SH commanders edition so I joined sometimes between that and SH2

[OldestMemberWhoAmI]

I am the man you are looking for! :D
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817071255/http://www.subsim.com/
Who am I?;)

[danlisa]

I am the man you are looking for! :D
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817071255/http://www.subsim.com/
Who am I?;)

Jason or Ed.

:know:

[Jimbuna]

I am the man you are looking for! :D
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817071255/http://www.subsim.com/
Who am I?;)

Lord Lucan :lol:

[FIREWALL]

I don't know who the oldest is but ....

I aim to out LAST you all. :p :rotfl: :rotfl:

[jpm1]

I wish i was the one http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b264/jpm1/Emoticons/sourire1.gif but i don't think i am :( http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b264/jpm1/Emoticons/sourire1.gif

[Kapitan]

I am no where near technically though wouldnt neal be the very first member?

[Jimbuna]

I am no where near technically though wouldnt neal be the very first member?

That depends on your interpretation of 'oldest'.

Agewise he most certainly isn't, but length of membership wise then probably....or would he be the founder :hmm:

[StdDev]

I am no where near technically though wouldnt neal be the very first member?

That depends on your interpretation of 'oldest'.

Agewise he most certainly isn't, but length of membership wise then probably....or would he be the founder :hmm:

.. isnt "founder" a nautical term? :p

[Jimbuna]

I am no where near technically though wouldnt neal be the very first member?

That depends on your interpretation of 'oldest'.

Agewise he most certainly isn't, but length of membership wise then probably....or would he be the founder :hmm:

.. isnt "founder" a nautical term? :p

Don't you mean 'flounder' :hmm:

Anyway.....why ask me, I'm not a real welder http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/wacko.gif

[Oberon]

Has it really been four years? :o

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=4460&forum=2

[SteamWake]

Im so old that when God said "Let there be light!" I flipped the switch :smug:

[JJ]

I'm not the oldest but probably the least active. I had to wipe the cobwebs and dust off the login button just to get in.. :dead:

[Torplexed]

I'm not the oldest but probably the least active. I had to wipe the cobwebs and dust off the login button just to get in.. :dead:

Wow!...JJ. Long time, no see. I hope no tattered white moths fluttered out when you entered. ;)

[JJ]

Wow!...JJ. Long time, no see. I hope no tattered white moths fluttered out when you entered. ;)
Long time, no see Torplexed. Been quite some while. So much all kinds of new stuff I hardly recognize the place.

But nope, no fluttering moths. They were in fact mummified.. :o

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Hey is the ping prize a Subsim stairlift?

Or a zimmerframe? ;)

[nikimcbee]

Hey is the ping prize a Subsim stairlift?

Or a zimmerframe? ;)

It's a case of prune juice.:shucks:

[Red Devil]

I will be 60 on Aug 18th

[Sailor Steve]

I will be 60 on Aug 18th
You've got me beat by eight months. However, there are members well into their seventies. But by "oldest" Neal meant the one who has been a member the longest.

[geetrue]

I turned 65 last March ... but all I got was a phone call a week later from my son saying, "Hey dad when's your birthday" :salute:

I say give the award to Sailor Steve ... he's been the best overall poster and supporter of all that is decent and good order at subsim even though at least half of his post have been to correct others mis-spellings lol

But in my defense I did get here in 99 ... I just can't prove it :O:

[Red Devil]

I turned 65 last March ... but all I got was a phone call a week later from my son saying, "Hey dad when's your birthday" :salute:

I say give the award to Sailor Steve ... he's been the best overall poster and supporter of all that is decent and good order at subsim even though at least half of his post have been to correct others mis-spellings lol

But in my defense I did get here in 99 ... I just can't prove it :O:


and not even a telegram off Obama/Queen/Prime Minister/Tal Iban!!! Disgusting! :shucks:

[donut]

Onkel Neal,http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/503/nealsp1.jpg Stopped counting @ 66 Yrs

[Fish]

Member since 0ctober 30, 2000. :woot:



http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/2001216/220/2001216.bmp (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2001216)

[Hans Schultz]

I thought I might have had something as far as a post from way back I remeber the old green and black site, alas nothing.

[Reaves]

I've been here for awhile but plenty of older members still lurking.

[Onkel Neal]

You've got me beat by eight months. However, there are members well into their seventies. But by "oldest" Neal meant the one who has been a member the longest.

Good point, title changed :)

[Aramike]

Not sure if this has been brought up, but anyone check the Internet Archives?

http://web.archive.org/web/20000831032039/www.subsim.com/ssr/

Go there and you can check some of the old forums out. Kind of cool for me, since it was way before my time.

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, the EZBoard message board is archived but not to the individual posts level. Still, one can go back to Oct 2000 (http://web.archive.org/web/20010210182917/pub31.ezboard.com/fboatsfrm5)and see who made posts, that certainly counts. :ping:

And to think, we had another forum before that one that dates back to 1997...

[Onkel Neal]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=1&forum=1

I wasn't here before Bill Nichols or John Channing and I'm not as good a liar as Sailor Steve but I deserve the prize.
:p :p

If you look carefully, you'll see that Neal has 0 posts and I have over 150, so I was here posting BEFORE Neal even created Subsim, so I WIN !!


Actually, Rick, if you look back in the EZBoard archives, you appear as far back as Feb 2001.... (http://web.archive.org/web/20020127022405/pub31.ezboard.com/fboatsfrm1?page=19) :hmmm:

...but I'm pretty sure Bill and John were onboard before then, too. John wrote the first DiMercurio article for Subsim in Sept 1998 (http://www.subsim.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=11111):D

[Takeda Shingen]

I say give the award to Sailor Steve ... he's been the best overall poster and supporter of all that is decent and good order at subsim even though at least half of his post have been to correct others mis-spellings lol

x2 Steve's a stand-up guy, and has my inflinching admiration. Of course, I would have to add you, geetrue, to my personal list of SubSim heroes as well. Truly so.

[FIREWALL]

Neal You must be the Ole Geezer Member. :haha: You surely made the first post. :know:

[Onkel Neal]

But I was only 12 when I started Subsim ! :O:

Here is a good record of who was around in the beginning, the Fix My 688(I) roster. (http://web.archive.org/web/20010110234200/www.deepdomain.olm.net/fix688/fixbook.shtml) Scroll down to the middle of the page, the blue table has the original 1998-1999 signers.

Order appears to the left to right, top to bottom... I recognize a lot of names in the first three rows

Neal Stevens
Scott Hirschman
Pat Miller
Bill Nichols
Robert Mauchin
Colin Foster
Barry Barnes
Jorgen Hallbeck
Lonny Hodges
John Easley
Ernest Fratz
J.D.Latorre
Pierre Ducasse
Magne Tjoerhom
Bill Keys
F. Morissette - SIM HQ
R. Litchfield - SIM HQ
Ed Lynch - SIM HQ
Ben Qol
Ed Quiggle
Nick Meis
Lane Goodman
Randall Guy
Angelo
Jun Arisaka
Kevin Polito
Joong-Hoon Kang
Joshua J. Krzych
Dennis Witthuhn
Dirk Delat
David Nawton
Robert Toole
Brian Young
Kevin Dankmeyer
Ross McCallum
Kasey Chang
Darren Dixon
Fred Polgardy, Sr.
Gerald Buscemi
Gordon Watson
Matthew Lenerville
Vint Le'
Scott Zabolotzky
Walt Hare
Don Stewart
Peter Cornish
Andrew Dawes
Steve Sanders
Kenneth M. Hinds
Paul Powell
Ken Hinchliffe
Jim (Struts) Raring
Luke Russell
Bram M. Otto
John Channing
Philippe Fransolet
Dan Cohen
Dietger Pohl
Daryl Cohen
Stuart Whelan

[Aramike]

Yeah, the EZBoard message board is archived but not to the individual posts level. Still, one can go back to Oct 2000 (http://web.archive.org/web/20010210182917/pub31.ezboard.com/fboatsfrm5)and see who made posts, that certainly counts. :ping:

And to think, we had another forum before that one that dates back to 1997...Heh, I was trying to find that old forum but no matter where I looked, nothing came up.

Btw, a select few (and I mean few) of the old threads and posts are available at that site, but it is luck of the draw. In any case, I'm totally pissed that I missed Subsim at that point, even though I was playing sub games! How dare you not be popular enough in your infancy to not be known by me! :rock:

Like I said earlier ... Neal, best site on the net, hands down! You know your thing and make it happen for everyone else who gets the point.

[Red Devil]

there is a site, archives.org, or something like that where all old web sites, minus images, go to lie down.

[RickC Sniper]

Yeah, the EZBoard message board is archived but not to the individual posts level. Still, one can go back to Oct 2000 (http://web.archive.org/web/20010210182917/pub31.ezboard.com/fboatsfrm5)and see who made posts, that certainly counts. :ping:


I wonder if he was the first guy to spell your name wrong. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/RickC/neil.jpg

[Onkel Neal]

Probably not! But I let him hear about, I'm sure ;)

[Sharkstooth]

isn't that a KP'able offense? we can do retroactive you know...

hows thangs Neil?

lol

hiya Rick...

L

[Onkel Neal]

Boy, you would show up when my name is being battered :O:

[Task Force]

lol... well... im not the oldest member... but i am 2 or 3 best spammer.:DL:rotfl:

[geetrue]

lol... well... im not the oldest member... but i am 2 or 3 best spammer.:DL:rotfl:


Naugh, your the best due to the content of your spam :yep:

[THE_MASK]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=82078 there must be earlier ones as i am the navy dude there LOL

[TigerShark808]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)

:haha:

[silent runner]

I remember when I first met Neal....Lets see now, it was a bright sunny day, the animals were all gathered at the foot of the ramp waiting to board the boat. Neal came up asking for to directions to the new Sub....I'd never heard of such a boat, but it got my interest, so I tagged along for a look see...the rest is history.

I didn't know how to write back then, so I didn't post for a long time....LOL...


In reality I joined a few months before SH2 come out, so I know I'm not the oldest member. My earliest post I could find was in Feb. 02, and that was post #25.


It's good to see some of the old timers.

[ST.Rage]

Wow, I am an early one.

Joshua J. Krzych :)

Thanks for all the years of dedication Neal!!

[Reaves]

My first visit was for SH2 + DC mod.

I always tend to return to port every now and again.

[les green01]

i ran submerge awhile before i join i think i join like first part of 2001,i remember the deerhunter scare on 9/11 and we blew alot of time at the wpl chatrooms before sh2 cameout,seem like we had more fun in the chatroom before sh2 cameout than after

[Onkel Neal]

Wow, I am an early one.

Joshua J. Krzych :)

Thanks for all the years of dedication Neal!!

Wow, no kidding :o

and thanks back atcha! :salute:

[Catfish]

Hey,
there's even a question from me :o about registration in the forum of 2000 in the link Neal provided, answered by Seehund, before i got my forum name - before registration in this new forum was done i was just "Kai", and again "Fish" in the EZ-board one before this one lol.
Greetings,
Kai/Fish/Catfish

[Ships-R-Us]

A short time ago I was fishing around one of Neals ancient articles reference how Deep Domain was founded. It is good reading, and I can not find my way back to it. I would like to finish reading the article. I have clicked on every imaginable link for over an hour trying.

This was about twwo weeks ago, and it would be a shame if Neal lost it due to recent server issues.........Who wants a gold star in exchange for the missing link?

[martes86]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_archive1/viewtopic.php?t=24462&highlight=

That seems my first, on June 26th, 2004. Not much of a contribution actually, but it was where it all started. :DL

Cheers :rock:

[Ships-R-Us]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_archive1/viewtopic.php?t=24462&highlight=

That seems my first, on June 26th, 2004. Not much of a contribution actually, but it was where it all started. :DL

Cheers :rock:

Thank-You for the reply. John Channing set me the actual link I was referring to. This old stuff for me is great reading.......

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/ssr_history.html

[Marcantilan]

I joined this forum in 64 BC. I helped Julius Caesar conquer Gaul, and by conquering Gaul we found this website laying around in a Gaelic toilet.

So you find a submarine there...

Better next time, ask Julius to flush the toilet.

[Kresge]

Wow, what a trip down memory lane! And funny that I recognize so many names after not being around much since SH4 came out. Cappy, Frank, FAdmiral, Lanzfeld, Lane, Orzel, Warship, Hense.... Wonder how may of us old-timers are still around. It'd be great if somebody made a list of old forum names and we had a roll call. Wish i had time to be more useful!

Ironically, some of my earliest recorded posts were bitching about Janus errors in SH2 and why the heck hadn't they fixed it yet :DL I think I found Subsim while looking for info on how to get SH1 to work with WinXP and was shocked to find that SH2 was in the works.

p.s. Trying to remember the handle of the dev/production guy who used to come around way back in the day. Had a cowboy and horse icon; believe his name was Mark. Might have been from SSI?

[Zepheron]

This is the earliest I could find.
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=1&forum=1&start=45
midlife crisis in 3.....2......

[Hitman]

p.s. Trying to remember the handle of the dev/production guy who used to come around way back in the day. Had a cowboy and horse icon; believe his name was Mark. Might have been from SSI?

Mark Kundiger IIRC ;) ... and yes I remember :doh: now I feel old :damn:

[Jimbuna]

That's because you are old :O:

[PhantomLord]

My first time here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=542785&postcount=594

Feels like ages ago, but i´m just the average joe :D

By the way thanks for all the fun, new things to learn, links, downloads, help and the confidence to let me moderate the german section. It´s an honour to serve here :salute:

[Admiral8Q]

Wow, that brings back memories! I joined sh2fleet or "WPL" before subsim :O:

This is my first subsim post apparently, odd! But it does sound like me. :oops:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=8544&forum=9

That can't be right, I think me original first posts are lost in cyber nullspace..

I think I joined the WPL in 2001, I wonder if there is any memory of it's existence, that was a lot of fun... The K.R.A.P. stories :o

I wonder if Neal remembers me, if not this may jog his memory.

"We come in peace, shoot to kill men!"

Edit: I have to add that to my sig! Heh heh!

[Cpt-Maxim]

Link to my post showing people how to link up with DC and SH2, which was posted - 2002-11-08 07:19

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=6374&forum=1

[daft]

Crikey, posted this: http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=546&forum=1
(http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/viewtopic.php?topic=546&forum=1)
March 14 2002.

[Lord_magerius]

I'm the son of god, I posted before any of you, I gave the inspiration for subsim. I also watch you masturbate! :D

[frau kaleun]

I also watch you masturbate! :D

Which reminds me, if your bank doesn't approve that pending VISA charge by end of business tomorrow I'm gonna have to block your access to the webcam feed.

[krashkart]

Which reminds me, if your bank doesn't approve that pending VISA charge by end of business tomorrow I'm gonna have to block your access to the webcam feed.

My check's on its way as usual. :03::03:

[frau kaleun]

My check's on its way as usual. :03::03:

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

:O:

[Gerald]

Which reminds me, if your bank doesn't approve that pending VISA charge by end of business tomorrow I'm gonna have to block your access to the webcam feed. :haha:

[Jimbuna]

Which reminds me, if your bank doesn't approve that pending VISA charge by end of business tomorrow I'm gonna have to block your access to the webcam feed.

LMAO :rotfl2:

[geetrue]

This thread is titled, "Earliest Subsim forum member - You prove it!"

Doesn't have any thing to do with masturbation ... :salute:

Right?

I mean come on guys don't make us prove that ... :o

[frau kaleun]

This thread is titled, "Earliest Subsim forum member - You prove it!"

Doesn't have any thing to do with masturbation ... :salute:

Right?

I mean come on guys don't make us prove that ... :o


He's right, you know. The Subsim Zombies thread is way sexier.

[Sailor Steve]

He's right, you know. The Subsim Zombies thread is way sexier.
Yeah, lots of flesh in that one.

Dead flesh, yum!

[krashkart]

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

:O:


*sigh* :shifty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIc8tYOofJ8

:O:

[Jimbuna]

He's right, you know. The Subsim Zombies thread is way sexier.

Most definitely

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8521/zomy.jpg (http://img526.imageshack.us/i/zomy.jpg/)

[Harmsway!]

I'm about two years late in discovering this thread but it reconciles a puzzle for me. You see I could swear I started lurking subsim back in 1998 but my join date shows 2002. With this thread Neal explains what happened and my memory is restored as well.

You see in the early days there was only a couple of hundred of us and Neal would email us all when new developments would come up. I suppose he still does. With this thread I now remember Neil emailing about the forum switch over.

I'm no longer sure how I discovered Subsim Review but it might have been when I came across Neal's review of his own childhood game.

NEAL'S SUBSIM ORIGINAL (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/oldsim.html)

[Task Force]

Yay! Ive been here 2 years... damn... only 2 years...:rotfl2:

[Takeda Shingen]

Yay! Ive been here 2 years... damn... only 2 years...:rotfl2:

You've contributed a lot in those two years.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Yay! Ive been here 2 years... damn... only 2 years...:rotfl2:
9000 posts in 2 years. dam. ive only been here 1 year, I fail :(

[krashkart]

^^ Don't forget LWAMI. ;)

Earliest Subsim Member? Huh...

*looks at watch*

Who posted first today? :DL

[Castout]

Can't find my old postings

But while searching I came across familiar names which now have been gone from subsim:

Thomasew, Mcarm, Ramius, Boomer Ang . . . . .

[Fish]

But while searching I came across familiar names which now have been gone from subsim:

Thomasew, Mcarm, Ramius, Boomer Ang . . . . .
Not to forget, jsteed, MBot, Te Kaha, Deepsix and Ludger Styra.
Last time they surfaced was half september 2008.
What a time it was when those guys where around here daily.:yep:

[Takeda Shingen]

I used to 'host' a submarine trivia thread at Sub Club. No matter how obscure the questions, Ramius would always get them right, and get them right first. A good guy, and I do miss him.

[Fish]

I used to 'host' a submarine trivia thread at Sub Club. No matter how obscure the questions, Ramius would always get them right, and get them right first. A good guy, and I do miss him.

Yeah, Ramius was a nice guy, and deadly in DW. :salute:

[kaptkirkU4467]

Looks like I was wiped from the old posts...but I did find this:
http://www.subsim.com/patches/PM_Readme.htm

Core testers
Projekt Messerwetzer © 2003

Jeez that's been a long time ago.

[The Avon Lady]

ping

:ping:

[CCIP]

ping

:ping:

:o:o

[Sailor Steve]

:o:o:o

ALAAAAARRRMMM! :D

[Herr-Berbunch]

Ahh, The Avon Lady does exist! I've seen references but thought it was just somebody making stuff up :yep:

[Sailor Steve]

Oh yes, she's very real. And I hope this is more than just a fly-by.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Well she's got some catching up to do :yep:

Three years - that's a hell of a round delivering all those cosmetics :D

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBPGZEVRH0

[nikimcbee]

ping

:ping:
OMG welcome back!:D

Steed, is that you?:hmmm:

[The Avon Lady]

I couldn't resist saying hello.

But I can't stay. I've been PC-game dry for years now. There are grandchildren to handle, causes to volunteer for, business matters which never end and a hubby and kids with bottomless pits that need to be fed.

I almost forgot the laundry! :88) :oops:

Can't stay. Be well. And a happy thanksgiving. Well, not for the turkey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOBqGEfhHKw).

[TarJak]

Wow long time no post.:o

[Jimbuna]

Hi Avon :sunny:

[Onkel Neal]

I couldn't resist saying hello.

But I can't stay. I've been PC-game dry for years now. There are grandchildren to handle, causes to volunteer for, business matters which never end and a hubby and kids with bottomless pits that need to be fed.

I almost forgot the laundry! :88) :oops:

Can't stay. Be well. And a happy thanksgiving. Well, not for the turkey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOBqGEfhHKw).


Weeeee! So good to see ya, Avon. Glad to hear everything is well with you.:salute:

[AVGWarhawk]

I couldn't resist saying hello.

But I can't stay. I've been PC-game dry for years now. There are grandchildren to handle, causes to volunteer for, business matters which never end and a hubby and kids with bottomless pits that need to be fed.

I almost forgot the laundry! :88) :oops:

Can't stay. Be well. And a happy thanksgiving. Well, not for the turkey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOBqGEfhHKw).


Wow! Good to hear from you Avon Lady!

[TheSatyr]

Ahhhhhhh yes. I remember when Neal annoyed the Pharoah by trying to make a submarine shaped pyramid.

When that didn't work,he tried to sell the Minoans the idea of building a submarine. They gave him the cash to build one and sent Neal to a shipyard on Thera. Unfortunately,Neal attempted to build a Nuclear Sub, But since he tried to build one a few thousand years too early,it kinda went boom. (And scientists STILL think that was a volcanic eruption).

After THAT debacle,Neal managed to con the Greeks into building a submarine. His first attempt sank. His second attempt caught fire and sank. His third attempt exploded,caught fire and sank. Finally,Neal decided that trying to build a sub wasn't such a great idea after all. (An interesting fact is that the Hunley was actually based on a Neal Stevens design that Professor Hunley found on a Hierogliphic in the Great Pyramid in Egypt.).

Eventually,Neal hit on the idea of having a Submarine web site,but since papyrus wasn't a very effective way to do it,he chose to wait till computers were invented.

[Sailor Steve]

My son, I believe you may qualify for this year's Blessed Ugly Lady's Loving Safety and Health In Texas medal. (TM)

[Sharkstooth]

I would never ever claim to be the 'oldest' member here... I think that belongs to RickSniper.

hehe... just yankin yer chain here Rick...

I do still have a CD of WPL Radio given to me personally by Steed tho. :|\\


Can't get any better than that..

[Takeda Shingen]

I would never ever claim to be the 'oldest' member here... I think that belongs to RickSniper.

hehe... just yankin yer chain here Rick...

I do still have a CD of WPL Radio given to me personally by Steed tho. :|\\


Can't get any better than that..

Holy crap. Straighten up; the boss is here!

Oh, and Rick is absolutely this forum's most prominent 172-year-old member.

[Sailor Steve]

Aw, man, they're coming out of the woodwork! When the Red-Shoe Queen arrives you know the party's started!

Have a pistachio, miz Sharkey ma'am?

[geetrue]

I agree Rick Sniper is the oldest member still posting ... agreed

but I still have one ace card in the hole for fear that this was a commie trap to locate old submarine sailors and get any useful information out of them I orginally registered in my sons name (David Armstrong) as geetrue2 and when the collaspe of Sub Club came about it was changed to just plain geetrue.

Sniper is the winner, but keep the thread going you never know who might drop by ... who would ever believe Avon lady would come back old age does funny things to ya :woot:

[Sharkstooth]

omg...tak!!!!!!!
are you still the baby of the forums??? ohhh I bet not anymore. I hope you doing so well.. I never ever forget the times we laughed so hard. I think u should have the title: "Master Haiku" !!!
btw...I thought Rick had a birthday... doesn't that make him 173?

Heyyy sailorrr
Love the wee pistacio, and I am a little nutz...

and my gosh...if it isn't Gee
So glad to see you all here, and hope you all behaving (as if)

[Sailor Steve]

So glad to see you all here, and hope you all behaving (as if)
We iz behavin...




...about the same as always.
:rotfl2:

[Drebbel]

Ahoy !

I remember when there was just the DeepDomain, Sharky was still young, and Neal already old :-).

Then . . . . , don't remember when, there was a forum, it had a little link at the bottom of the DeepDomain page

I also remember Neal wanted to create more than one forum, I was against it. LOL imagine that nowadays there would just be one forum. One would post a message and before you know it it would be on page 20 :haha:

I also remember Neal did a survey to find out more about his visitors. Who they where, what they did, etcetera. He even gave away prizes for people taking part in that survey.

I still have my prize:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2287968/Forums/SubSim/gmgfhj.jpg

Oh btw, oldest post I could find is from: 4/26/01 6:43:41 am

Oh btw2 Is good to see so many familiar faces around here !

[nikimcbee]

Ahoy !

I remember when there was just the DeepDomain, Sharky was still young, and Neal already old :-).

Then . . . . , don't remember when, there was a forum, it had a little link at the bottom of the DeepDomain page

I also remember Neal wanted to create more than one forum, I was against it. LOL imagine that nowadays there would just be one forum. One would post a message and before you know it it would be on page 20 :haha:

I also remember Neal did a survey to find out more about his visitors. Who they where, what they did, etcetera. He even gave away prizes for people taking part in that survey.

I still have my prize:



Oh btw, oldest post I could find is from: 4/26/01 6:43:41 am

Oh btw2 Is good to see so many familiar faces around here !

Long time, no see!:o Welcome back, how's it been?

[Jimbuna]

Ahoy !


I still have my prize:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2287968/Forums/SubSim/gmgfhj.jpg



Does it still ward off the vampires and werewolves ? :DL

[Sailor Steve]

Hey Dribbles, it's good to see you. Now...




WHERE'S MY FEE????? :hulk:

[Drebbel]

It still does not scare of wolves and vampires. But it reminds me of the good old days :DL

Your feee ? ? ? I was in jail way too long for you to deserve a fee ! :arrgh!:

[Onkel Neal]

Good to see you, man. Good friends are forever. :shucks:

[Sailor Steve]

Your feee ? ? ? I was in jail way too long for you to deserve a fee ! :arrgh!:
Yeah, but a scum-sucking, bottom-feeding, ambulance-chasing...I mean, a guy's gotta keep trying.

[TLAM Strike]

for old times sake:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1723/Free_Drebbel.jpg

[Sharkstooth]

It still does not scare of wolves and vampires. But it reminds me of the good old days :DL

Your feee ? ? ? I was in jail way too long for you to deserve a fee ! :arrgh!:

was in jail??

[Sharkstooth]

Ahoy !

I remember when there was just the DeepDomain, Sharky was still young, and Neal already old :-).

Then . . . . , don't remember when, there was a forum, it had a little link at the bottom of the DeepDomain page

I also remember Neal wanted to create more than one forum, I was against it. LOL imagine that nowadays there would just be one forum. One would post a message and before you know it it would be on page 20 :haha:



OMG...I just saw this!! u in DeepPoo for that remark...



callin Neal old... sheesh... :03:

[Sailor Steve]

Well, the thread was originally titled "Oldest Member", but Neal changed it when people started bragging about being older than me...I mean him...I mean...

Ohh...

[Blowballast]

Ooh, all these names bring back memories :yep:


...all the mods for SH2..

..all the laughs in the subclub chat..
(and i just noticed i still remember some conversations we had. this is...insane :rock:)

..Cpt Squid Quiz WW2 related thread..
("Asino Morto": my one and only correct answer so far...let's see if someone else remember the question :know:)

..the sig made by Sharkie, and they both are still here and still beautiful..
(and the brig is avoided)

...the flottillas..

..the famous/infamous Projekt Messerwerzer..

..a NDA with Ultimation..

....
...
..
.
and the amazing community. every. single (well, almost) one.
back then and now (yep, still lurking, till the end :rock:)

[Sharkstooth]

wow...good to see you Blow...
prolly only reason you not inna brig is cause its drydocked.
:)

[RickC Sniper]

btw...I thought Rick had a birthday... doesn't that make him 173?




HEY! I just spotted this.

BRAT! :O:

Sure is good seeing you post here again Peanut.

[Sharkstooth]

well well...is the man hisself... how the heck are you???
you retired down to u summer home in Pueblo yet??
an you mistaken here Rick... I'm the angel, you the lil BRAT. :D
soooooo good to see you!

[Sledgehammer427]

nothing like seeing a bunch of old (use of "old" pertains to join date) members showing up to make me feel like a newbie again.

And I'm a moderator V_V

[Jimbuna]

Best not tell him which section then :O:

[Fish]

Ahoy !

I remember when there was just the DeepDomain, Sharky was still young, and Neal already old :-).



You can be here on Subsim for years and never meet, just because one plays WW II subsim (SH)and the other modern subsims SC/DW).

[FIREWALL]

I just know I was the oldest member. :yep: I just can't remember anything.

Hey !!! What were we talking about anyways ? :o

[geetrue]

How about searching for the earliest "rag nagger" and see how many replies you get ...

They always remember after all they were "Rag naggers"

[soopaman2]

Is this thread the subsim version of the nursing home? *rimshot*

Hey, who threw that tomato at me!?

:oops:

[Fish]

Officially, I am a member for 10 years now. :woot:

[Gerald]

Officially, I am a member for 10 years now. :woot: Congratulations, :yeah:

[Fish]

Congratulations, :yeah:


Thanks, the bar is open, have a drink. :up:

[Gerald]

Thanks, the bar is open, have a drink. :up: I will,thank you :DL

[Jimbuna]

How about searching for the earliest "rag nagger" and see how many replies you get ...

They always remember after all they were "Rag naggers"

Rag Nagger? :hmmm:

[geetrue]

Rag Nagger? :hmmm:

Just preface with rag :hmmm:

Definitions of Nagger in dictionaries:


1

noun - Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
2

v - To find fault incessantly

[Jimbuna]

Just preface with rag :hmmm:

Definitions of Nagger in dictionaries:



1

noun - Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
2

v - To find fault incessantly


Ah, right....thanks :DL

[Gerald]

Ah, right....thanks :DL I'm sending a dictionary in the mail, :smug:

[Jimbuna]

I'm sending a dictionary in the mail, :smug:

Kettle and frying pan immediately spring to mind :har:

[Gerald]

Kettle and frying pan immediately spring to mind :har: :DL

[Jimbuna]

http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img126/2543/iconfrypanei7.gif

[Gerald]

Ahh...right :DL

[Jimbuna]

:|\\

[Gerald]

OUCH :smug:

[Kresge]

Geez, all these old timers still hanging around here :D

[Jimbuna]

Tends to be the norm when your a member of one of the friendliest communities :sunny:

[Kresge]

Tends to be the norm when your a member of one of the friendliest communities :sunny:
That's why I still check in from time to time. Maybe I'll even load up SHIII for old times sake :DL

[Jimbuna]

That's why I still check in from time to time. Maybe I'll even load up SHIII for old times sake :DL

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[geetrue]

Look what I found?

My old sig, surely someone would remember :yep:


“Lucky are those that can escape the dreariness of everyday life.”
“How many reach the end without ever having lived?” Vito Dumas
(Singlehand circumnavigator of the world 1944-45)

[soopaman2]

Can't you let someone win?

Shouldn't the board owner have won by default? Or is this a thread of usurpers?:D.

Neal Stevens sir, you win!

Go on prove me wrong!

(soopaheroes always side with winners)

[krashkart]

Shewt... everyone knows that Neal founded this place with a basket full of hardtack and ten-thousand flagons' full of the earliest member's homebrew grog (just add water! =D). That latter bit would be my specialty... dehydrated grog, y'know. It's all the rage up in the Uhlaskuhn Pun-insula, where men are harder than hard and wimmin complain that it ain't hard enough. :yep:


Visit Uhlaskuh... or we'll kick your ass! :yeah:

[Onkel Neal]

Can't you let someone win?

Shouldn't the board owner have won by default? Or is this a thread of usurpers?:D.

Neal Stevens sir, you win!

Go on prove me wrong!

(soopaheroes always side with winners)

Yeah, by now there should be a prize. Where do we stand, who is leading the pack so far?

[Tchocky]

Holy crap I've been here longer than jimbuna.


Now that's just weird

:P

[Jimbuna]

Holy crap I've been here longer than jimbuna.


Now that's just weird

:P

Not if you take into account my Neal Stevens membership :DL

[Sailor Steve]

"I was born a hundred thousand years ago,
And there ain't a single thing that I don't know.
There ain't no place that I ain't been
Around the world and back again,
And I'll whup the man that says it isn't so!"
-Traditional folk song

[krashkart]

Yeah, by now there should be a prize. Where do we stand, who is leading the pack so far?

I'm not sure. I capitalized on dehydrated grog last month, so that should put me in first place. :03:

[Jimbuna]

I'm not sure. I capitalized on dehydrated grog last month, so that should put me in first place. :03:

Nevermind that...my invention is supreme :smug:

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/askville/6666639_11802838_mywrite/justaddwater.jpg

[krashkart]

Nevermind that...my invention is supreme :smug:

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/askville/6666639_11802838_mywrite/justaddwater.jpg

Hey I... :o Well, for shame. :oops: I use that dehydrated water in my grog. :hmmm:

[nikimcbee]

Hey I... :o Well, for shame. :oops: I use that dehydrated water in my grog. :hmmm:

I thought you drank it all.

[krashkart]

I thought you drank it all.

I... did I say that?? I must have been mistaken. :D

[Oberon]

I think that Neil Stevens should get it, I've seen him mentioned a lot over the years but no-one ever gives him any credit.

[krashkart]

I think that Neil Stevens should get it, I've seen him mentioned a lot over the years but no-one ever gives him any credit.

I've never met Niel, but I hear he's a cool guy.

[Jimbuna]

I think that Neil Stevens should get it, I've seen him mentioned a lot over the years but no-one ever gives him any credit.

Neal to you :DL

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

I think that Neil Stevens should get it, I've seen him mentioned a lot over the years but no-one ever gives him any credit.Who is that Nile Stevens...? :hmmm:

[krashkart]

Who is that Nile Stevens...? :hmmm:

I think he meant Cat Stevens. :hmm2:

[Sailor Steve]

Neal to you :DL
I kneel to no man. :x

[frau kaleun]

I kneel to no man. :x

Not even our fearless leader, Niall Stephenson?

[Sailor Steve]

Not even our fearless leader, Niall Stephenson?
Oh heck no! He Neils to me.

Neal Stevens, on the other hand, is a friend who would never ask something like that. Of course he recognizes that my bad old knees would refuse to get up again, and he hates to hear a grown man cry.

[Jimbuna]

I kneel to no man. :x

LOL...beat me to it :DL

[nikimcbee]

I think that Neil Stevens should get it, I've seen him mentioned a lot over the years but no-one ever gives him any credit.

You mean, subsim's rival, Neil Stephens of Tractorsim?

[krashkart]

You mean, subsim's rival, Neil Stephens of Tractorsim?

I think he means Neils Stefans, the admin of Shoppingcartsim. :06:

[nikimcbee]

I think he means Neils Stefans, the admin of Shoppingcartsim. :06:

I've seen the google earth photos of Neil Stephens of tractorsim. He's from Waco (TX), on his riding lawn mower and he wears black socks and sandals whilst working.:o

[krashkart]

I've seen the google earth photos of Neil Stephens of tractorsim. He's from Waco (TX), on his riding lawn mower and he wears black socks and sandals whilst working.:o

I think that's one of the signs of the end of the world. :o


As the Mayans wrote in an as-yet undiscovered proverb on primitive lawn care,

Before the world goes kaput, we think it's only fair that we leave a small, insignifcant clue for the future doomsayers to argue over:

He who drives a lawnmower in his black socks, whilst wearing sandals, shall be the harbinger of your impending collective demise. So be it known that on the day the Google Heathens steal his soul into their cartography records will be the day that the end of the universe as we know begins to unfold.

Have a great day! =D

-The Mayans





This Neil Stephens fellow must be some sort of ethereal lynch pin that holds that universe together. Kinda like the Fifth Element in a way. :hmmm::yep::D

[guntherprien]

I remember when all this was just fields. (http://mushroom.nosox.org/fields.html)

;)Simply,brilliant. :haha:

[geetrue]

I remember when Letum said that ... I was here :haha:

Now that is old ...

seriously folks when Neal has a grandson we can start a thread on who is the youngest member of subsim :know:

[McBeck]

was in jail??

OMG OMG OMG OMG....Dribble is here?! Or was here last year :-P

[Cowboy10uk]

Damn didnt realise I had been floating around for so long, granted not as long as most of you but still, 7 years ain't bad. Don't think I've contributed anything in that time but still. ;)

Dispute hat my info says here, I actully joined as COWBOY10 way back 5/1/2005, sadly my login password has long since been forgotten by me, and certainly the email address used to register that account has long gone, which means I can't get back in there.

Hence I started my new account here, this one. Cowboy10uk, which is the username I was going for in the first place, no idea why I didn't put the UK at the end last time.

So I'm guessing it will be 8 years in 3 weeks, and this community is still as helpful and as wonderful as ever. That everyone is an acheviment.

Fingers crossed it will last for many many years yet.

Cowboy10uk

[soopaman2]

So how many of you need to die for me to even have a chance?

And tips on expediting the process?:D

:salute:

Bless all you salty old farts!

[Mork_417]

Not sure if it was my first post, but it's the earliest reference i could find. :salute:

Silent Hunter II - Can't get co-op action... - FloppyRat = 2002-12-24 23:57

[Hartmann]

My first know post was this. In 2005 , a question about dangerous waters.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=82623&highlight=silent

[FUBAR295]

Better late than never.

Just to add my name to this list ... be around since March 2002.

Good hunting
FUBAR295