Earliest Subsim forum member - you? Prove it!

[Letum]

I remember when all this was just fields.

[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.

[August]

Originally Posted by Letum

I remember when all this was just fields.

:rotfl:
This post wins the thread!

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by August

:rotfl:
This post wins the thread!

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

[Seminole]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

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

Well if that counts as "evidence" then double BS.. 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...

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

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

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.

[Gorduz]

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_2002/vie...ic=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!
http://web.archive.org/web/200008170...ww.subsim.com/
Who am I?

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by OldestMemberWhoAmI

I am the man you are looking for!
http://web.archive.org/web/200008170...ww.subsim.com/
Who am I?

Jason or Ed.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by OldestMemberWhoAmI

I am the man you are looking for!
http://web.archive.org/web/200008170...ww.subsim.com/
Who am I?

Lord Lucan

[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"

Originally Posted by Letum

I remember when all this was just fields.

[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 !

Greetings from Germany,
Catfish

[dean_acheson]

Joined: Feb 27, 2002
Posts: 16
From: Washington DC
Posted: 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
Posted: 2002-02-28 14:31 Yes, probably in about a week.

Scion

Joined: Feb 27, 2002
Posts: 549
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Posted: 2002-02-28 20:02 A week?!?!?!?

Neal Stevens
Joined: May 06, 2006
Posts: 0
From: Houston, Texas
Posted: 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

[dean_acheson]

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

[Lane]

Neal,

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

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.

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