Earliest Subsim forum member - you? Prove it!

[Hitman]

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

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/vie...c=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/vie...opic=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.

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

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

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/vie...opic=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.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/vie...opic=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....

...but I'm pretty sure Bill and John were onboard before then, too. John wrote the first DiMercurio article for Subsim in Sept 1998

[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]

Originally Posted by ST.Rage

Wow, I am an early one.

Joshua J. Krzych

Thanks for all the years of dedication Neal!!

Wow, no kidding

and thanks back atcha!

[Catfish]

Hey,
there's even a question from me 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?