[LOA--JK47]

Ages and ages.........
[it's Dekker, i sigend in as me to re-iterate my point )

I was, for reasons of sheer boredom and curiousity, checking the members list and arranging it by date. IPAndrews made  it to page 2, I (LOA--JK47 before my regeneration) made it to page 7 less than a week after Sandwhich TM.

Feels like only yesterday...sort of.

[Titan]

huh?

[Mars]

It's dekker saying he's been here for a long time.

[Colonol Dekker]

I was looking through and only a handful of "originals" are still floating about, a shed-load of new guys signed up in the last couple of months. But no-ones posting. Where's the interaction from these guys?

[Flipside]

I've been here nearly 7 years now...

[Titan]

almost 2    though i've had freespace (couting the collossus demo that came with my joystick. yup. played it once, wasnt impressed, played it again a couple months later, loved it, convinced my dad to download it, and here i am.)

[Polpolion]

Almost 3.5 years. More than many here, but still not quite an oldie.

[Mars]

3 years, 3 months, but that doesn't count the year or so of lurking.

[redsniper]

Started lurking about the time I got FS2 in summer of 2000, joined HLP in 2003, in May, I think. Man, I remember the VBB...

[Mongoose]

Registered in July of '04, if my profile is to be believed, although I'm sure I lurked for at least a bit before then.  Time flies.

[Mars]

What confuses me is that I seem to remember the Sep 11 discussion on this board, but my account says I registered 2005 

I must have lurked a whole lot.

[Nuclear1]

I came here just as VBB collapsed, so however many years ago that was (6 or 7)

[Retsof]

I've been here for just over a year now.  Huh, felt like longer.

[General Battuta]

I was on the VBB as a youngster.

[Galemp]

I started the FSPort in 2002, so I've been hosted here for at least that long. Setekh made the banner.

[IceFire]

I started a FreeSpace fan website back in spring 1998 only a couple of months after the initial PC Gamer preview in December 1997.  So...10 years

[CP5670]

I've been around for 9 years now, starting with the VBB around FS2's release, although I was lurking in the FDL mailing list six months earlier.

Icefire and Ace are probably the "oldest" people who are still in the community.

[Flipside]

I started a FreeSpace fan website back in spring 1998 only a couple of months after the initial PC Gamer preview in December 1997.  So...10 years

I think I bought Freespace 1 in 1998/9, I remember several magazines going nuts about it, and it was the reason I bought my first 3DFX card which was, iirc, a Voodoo or something...

Ah... Those were great days, it's amazing to think the graphics on that card blew me away more than the graphics on the newer cards. Just goes to show how much perspective has to play in these things

[S-99]

I still have more respect for my old voodoo3 3000pci out of all the new cards i see and have owned.

I signed up here sometime early 2005, i was lurking in 2004 though. I didn't put much thought into what the source code being released actually meant. For me, i was like "no fs3?" Mainly i was checking out the vbb front page until i found an active fs community which was here. I knew there was an active fs community somewhere, just had to unturn some stones at the main fs source...the vbb. When i found this place, there was more than enough content here to keep a lurker happy (there still is). Then, i found out what media vp's were months later after i actually signed up here.

[Dark Hunter]

This New Year's I will have been here 3 years...

Not as long as some, but still. Seems a long time to me.

I think I joined up shortly after purchasing Freespace 2. I was browsing GameFAQs and saw a reference to Inferno on their FS2 message board. When I inquired they directed me here.
If I lurked, it wasn't for long.