guitarf1 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 (edited) My last activity here was on Wednesday October 27th 2004, which was 17 years, 3 months, and 13 days ago. I managed to make it back with some help. To be perfectly honest, I didn't even recognize my account's activity until I found a picture post of a lunar eclipse that I had taken and matched up. Words are easily forgotten, but pictures remain. One of the bigger surprises was seeing how neowin.net has such amazing content retention! If only I had kept my old computers and had taken more screenshots back then. I would like to see more people come back to forums in general. It seems older ones like Amdmb.com have died or were rebranded. hellowalkman, +E.Worm Jimmy, Steven P. and 8 others 9 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightIdea Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 I’ve just done the same! I was surprised I remembered my old password 😂 hellowalkman, Sikh, +E.Worm Jimmy and 1 other 3 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598722776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannes Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Crazy how time flies but it feels to me I'm stuck in the past. I honestly do miss the days and especially conversations back then. xrobwx71, Sikh, hellowalkman and 2 others 3 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598724186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted April 3, 2022 Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 3, 2022 On 03/04/2022 at 14:08, Wannes said: Crazy how time flies but it feels to me I'm stuck in the past. I honestly do miss the days and especially conversations back then. Yeah - it was totally different when I joined over 20 years ago. I miss modding scene and visual styles for XP and a lot of members that provided good content were lost a while back. I think the outage that lasted a while made people think that there is no where to come back to so they moved on.. I cannot remember exactly but I also left for quite a while Sikh, Brandon H and hellowalkman 2 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598724187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellowalkman Reporter Posted April 3, 2022 Reporter Share Posted April 3, 2022 Great to some old folks still around even though I wasn't myself around back then Sikh 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598724195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted April 4, 2022 Administrators Share Posted April 4, 2022 On 03/04/2022 at 20:17, E.Worm Jimmy said: Yeah - it was totally different when I joined over 20 years ago. I miss modding scene and visual styles for XP and a lot of members that provided good content were lost a while back. I think the outage that lasted a while made people think that there is no where to come back to so they moved on.. I cannot remember exactly but I also left for quite a while We had a lot of outages and different hosts over the years until we partnered with Stardock in the beginning of 2005. Sikh, Barney T., spikey_richie and 3 others 6 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598724288 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drone Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 This is my first post in nearly 13 years. Talk about a gap. 🤣 Barney T., Lexcyn, Jose_49 and 2 others 1 1 3 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598725031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceles Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 People change and very few people of old remains. Sadly indeed some people has left and I miss the times of old. Well, it is what it is. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598725034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannes Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 On 03/04/2022 at 20:17, E.Worm Jimmy said: Yeah - it was totally different when I joined over 20 years ago. I miss modding scene and visual styles for XP and a lot of members that provided good content were lost a while back. I think the outage that lasted a while made people think that there is no where to come back to so they moved on.. I cannot remember exactly but I also left for quite a while The modding scene was great. WinXP, Winamp, ... That's what I mean with I'm stuck in the past. My PC is an utility, nothing more and nothing less, whilst back in the day it was my "hobby". On 04/04/2022 at 11:28, Steven P. said: We had a lot of outages and different hosts over the years until we partnered with Stardock in the beginning of 2005. Yeah, the outage wasn't an issue anymore. I remember the topics where you guys had to state the bandwith usage of Neowin, the investments, the patience, ... . xrobwx71, Steven P., Sikh and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598726939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexcyn Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 I literally just came back here and realized I registered in January of 2002... that's just over 20 years ago. I believe I was still playing Quake 3 back then, haha. Glad the site is still going. I still come here every so often to read some news, but I think you're right... a lot of people don't use forums as much as they used to. I miss those days. Steven P. 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyfrog Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) It's hard to believe it has been over 20 years now; it doesn't seem so long ago that I was right here reading the news about Microsoft's brand new OS Windows XP. Neowin is still one of my daily visits even after all this time though I obviously don't post very much. I just like reading the articles. Most of the other sites I used to visit back then are long gone. spikey_richie, Lexcyn, +hedleigh and 1 other 2 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corrosive23 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Yep some of us have been here forever it seems. Steven P. and Lexcyn 1 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 13, 2022 MVC Share Posted May 13, 2022 On 12/05/2022 at 21:19, Skyfrog said: It's hard to believe it has been over 20 years now; You son of a bitch, you beat me by 14 days ..🤣 I joined Nov 30th 2001 Steven P., spikey_richie, Skyfrog and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted May 13, 2022 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 13, 2022 On 12/05/2022 at 23:17, warwagon said: You son of a bitch, you beat me by 14 days ..🤣 I joined Nov 30th 2001 I beat you by 10 wow been a while Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Some of us have been here so long that when we see a thread start with "It's been...", our brains go "..one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, I'm angry" margrave, spikey_richie, Lexcyn and 1 other 1 1 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey_richie Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 On 13/05/2022 at 12:07, Dick Montage said: Some of us have been here so long that when we see a thread start with "It's been...", our brains go "..one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, I'm angry" Which then instantly takes me to What We Do In The Shadows season 3 Dick Montage and Sikh 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wir3Tap Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Ahhh back in the day of trying to find Windows Vista leaks lmao.. Sikh 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey_richie Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 On 13/05/2022 at 13:10, Wir3Tap said: Ahhh back in the day of trying to find Windows Vista leaks lmao.. And then we realised what a sh*t show it was. Sikh 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted May 13, 2022 Subscriber² Share Posted May 13, 2022 On September 18th it'll have been 21 years since I registered my forum account. It's been a wild ride over the years. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Elі Subscriber² Posted May 13, 2022 Subscriber² Share Posted May 13, 2022 It's been over 21 years since I registered this account on Neowin, however, if I'm not mistaken, I think I remember having an account registered before then that got deleted because of a database loss or something around those lines. I then almost left this site in recent years almost completely as I moved to Linux for several years, then last year Windows 11 and the poor Virtual Reality compatibility in Linux bought me back to Windows and back to Neowin lol. CloudEngineer 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
reactionary007 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 It's been a fun 21, looking forward to the next two decades! I really need to post more! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 another og Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) Won't hit the 20 year mark until Oct. 4th but it's been fun. Had issues with the one WWE topic where I couldn't keep my mouth shut about how fake and stupid I think that is and wound up with like 6 warnings, or something like that. Finally made myself leave that topic alone and got record all cleaned up! I've asked some crazy questions here and still got good replies. Remember one topic I started about what kind of weed was this in front yard that was over taking everything. None of the weed killers was getting it done, but the help I got made it so I could get rid of it finally. I usually bounce back and forth from what I'm doing currently to this site just to check in on topics multiple times a day. Edit: Always been one of my favorite sites and is one of the best sites on the net, IMO. Edited May 13, 2022 by cork1958 Steven P. 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted May 13, 2022 Supervisor Share Posted May 13, 2022 I've only been here about half as long as most of you in this thread being just over 12 years now but it's been a ride indeed. we've all had our ups and downs but I wouldn't trade this site for the world. I don't tend to ask too many questions myself but I always love to look over other people's questions/answers and learn from them. Steven P. 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranasrule Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 My God...I cant believe its been almost 19 years since I joined. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1415338-it%E2%80%99s-been-over-17-years/#findComment-598733518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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