It's been 4 years since I joined! TODAY! May 10 Baby!
The Arlong Park Anniversary thread!
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Pft. I hit 15 years a couple months ago and I didn't make any big deal about it.
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You dear, sweet children.
Complicating things since 2009.
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I believe I joined just around when Marineford was ending.
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17 fuckin' years, baby.
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15 years and still no plans of leaving anytime soon.
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Unless you came over on the first server migration you are but an upstart.
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How the heck have I been here for 8 years. That feels so wrong.
It's freaking me out a bit that we're getting to the point where people have been members of online forums longer than newer members have been alive.
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When I first came here, I was but a little girl with dreams.
Now I'm a slightly bigger man with a moustache.
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When I joined this place, I never considered I'd see some of us hitting retirement.
Does this mean we'll get a retirement subforum? I've always wanted a place I could shake my cane from.
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When I first came here, I was but a little girl with dreams.
Now I'm a slightly bigger man with a moustache.
But you are always the same! AWESOME!
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In August I'll hit 13 years (god). I know recently I haven't been posting too often here, but I still remember those newbie and embarrassing days back in 2009-2010, I was a dumb teen. Still, this place was the first time I really dived into social media, before the days of Discord and Twitter.
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11 years since I joined, 14 since I started lurking!
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Greg's account is old enough to vote.
[And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon] -
I hit 15 years back in February.
I have forums that I joined in 2003, so I'm grappling with the fact that I will have been on internet forums for 20 years next year.To think of things in that way blows my mind. I still remember when forums were brand new to me.
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18 years, my relationship with AP is old enough to smoke!
Edit: nearly old enough. I think I joined late summer/septemberish 2004
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8 years here, but if I account for the time on orkut forums I'm on par with the ol coots here.
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18 years, my relationship with AP is old enough to smoke!
Edit: nearly old enough. I think I joined late summer/septemberish 2004
By 2025, your and Greg's accounts will be old enough to drink and gamble.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20041220161411/http://66.90.103.231/index.php?showforum=4
http://web.archive.org/web/20041228203115/http://66.90.103.231/index.php?showuser=173
http://web.archive.org/web/20041224195220/http://66.90.103.231/index.php?showuser=278Sadly, a lot of the links don't work so no exact dates but taboo was member 327, Monkey King was 344, and wolfwood was 891.
I can't remember if that forum had guest posting enabled or not; if it did, I probably did that for a bit before joining since I usually did back then to get a feel for a place.
Complicating things since 2009.
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11 years officially. But I started visiting around end 2008 with another account to see the spoilers.
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I absolutely remember there being a guest poster function.
891 eh, well atleast it's in the original thousand. But Tabby being 564 places older than me smarts a bit. My old-timer cred is being put in to perspective.
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Who were the founding members?
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
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http://web.archive.org/web/20041220161411/http://66.90.103.231/index.php?showforum=4
http://web.archive.org/web/20041228203115/http://66.90.103.231/index.php?showuser=173
http://web.archive.org/web/20041224195220/http://66.90.103.231/index.php?showuser=278Sadly, a lot of the links don't work so no exact dates but taboo was member 327, Monkey King was 344, and wolfwood was 891.
I can't remember if that forum had guest posting enabled or not; if it did, I probably did that for a bit before joining since I usually did back then to get a feel for a place.
I remember the colour scheme, but the main page looks a bit different from memory (I don't remember it being pink).
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Complicating things since 2009.
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I'm hitting my 15 year anniversary next month. Jesus, it does NOT feel like 15 years have passed.
Though technically I lurked for like 2 years before joining.
CosmicDebris was the one who told me to join AP on the old One Piece forum on Tv.com, that replaced TV Tome back in like '05
And I broke the forum rules by joining at the ripe old age of 11. Muhahahahaha!
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I joined around the time the grip of 4Kids was loosening. Quite a ride since then.
Like the Avatar? / Like the Miis?Dragalia Lost ID: 97617932505
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And OMG where are Aftershock and The Dude? Have they abandoned us?
You're just now noticing Aftershock's disappearance? That guy was a fable by the time I was lurking in Sept 05.
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I'm at 13 years apparently. Though I do recall looking at spoilers before that, don't remember if I had a dif account for that or if it was public.
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Just posting to see my join date cause I'm lazy…
I joined at around Marineford. My was marineford really 12 years ago already? Man, to think Wano alone has gone on for like 5 years or so
I still remember my Coribou avatar: "my hair is an iguana, your argument is invalid"When I first came here, I was but a little girl with dreams.
Now I'm a slightly bigger man with a moustache.
What an epic journey. May it last for ages more (or wait wouldn't that be bad? anyway…). Godspeed my man o7
Lets see... I went from troubled young man to untroubled boomer who doesnt get this gosh darn newfangled tiktok. Also leveled up to level 30 wizard only to later hand my wizard badge back in. Quite a journey if I put it like that.
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Good times lurking for spoilers back during the post Enies Lobby days. The goddamn scans that were directly posted here by battle franky. I was more active in some random MSN group.
Only got a real account like 5 years later.
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Can't even remember how long I was lurking here before joining. I know I was looking at the spoiler thread in high school and 2007 would put me in my first or second year of college, so…yeah, I guess 2-3 years.
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Thinking back, I definitely remember reading the chapter discussion for the Straw Hats attacking Franky House and then Usopp challenging Luffy to a duel; there's a two week gap between it and the actual duel with the latter coming out just before I signed up. So, yeah, I think I was lurking/guest posting for most of a month before I signed up, which all fits since that was around the time I got fed up with Viz's pace and started going online to read chapters.
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Satsuki was 356.
I think it was wanderer-zero, Roboblue, Aftershock, and The Dude.
EvilGamerX and Matt were there too.
I actually don't remember if Wanderer-Zero was a founding member, I might've recruited him from KF to help manage the technical side of the site?
Edit: he's user #1 so clearly that happened before this incarnation of the forum at least.
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EvilGamerX and Matt were there too.
Didn't one or the other go by something else back then? If nothing else, Matt doesn't really ring any bells.
EvilGamerX had a higher member number than I would have thought with 38.
There must have been a whole rush of people to sign up the week before I did though since Buccaneer and Pepsi were exactly a week earlier and member 14 and 18 while e1n and oceanizer were two days before me and 154 and 156 respectively.
Complicating things since 2009.
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The only thing more surreal than the age of some of your accounts….. is the idea that there are people in Japan that have been following this series since 1997, and have celebrated their silver jubilee.
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Didn't one or the other go by something else back then? If nothing else, Matt doesn't really ring any bells.
EvilGamerX had a higher member number than I would have thought with 38.
There must have been a whole rush of people to sign up the week before I did though since Buccaneer and Pepsi were exactly a week earlier and member 14 and 18 while e1n and oceanizer were two days before me and 154 and 156 respectively.
Those were the names used on the website, you can still see them on Archive.org along with the original forum.
Honestly I have no clue who Matt was, EGX or Aftershock must've invited him on during the very early planning stages.
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Those were the names used on the website, you can still see them on Archive.org along with the original forum.
Honestly I have no clue who Matt was, EGX or Aftershock must've invited him on during the very early planning stages.
I don't know why I wrote it that way; I meant that they changed their names to something else later on. I know EGX did but maybe Matt went by something else later on.
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Been here since October 2004, 24 years old at that point. Almost 20 years here. Saw so many people come and go.
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Don't even know when I started accessing the forums because back then I would just google One Piece every few days and stumble upon a new chapter here. Only created an account when I finally saw a comment saying that one was required to see spoilers.
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I'm hitting my 15 year anniversary next month. Jesus, it does NOT feel like 15 years have passed.
Though technically I lurked for like 2 years before joining.
CosmicDebris was the one who told me to join AP on the old One Piece forum on Tv.com, that replaced TV Tome back in like '05
And I broke the forum rules by joining at the ripe old age of 11. Muhahahahaha!
I remembered joining Arlong Park forums from TV.com as well. I was a lurker for a short time. And you joined at 11? You sly fox.
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Lurked here since 2016, officially joined here in September of 2021. I'm 8 months old compared to all of you!
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17 years about a week ago
Been here so long that the quotations in my Username got completely messed up with the Forum updates apparently, lol
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13 years in a couple months. A whole teenager.
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Been lurking here since 2005, got an account in 2006 (that I lost the login details to), and re-registered when it was announced Funimation got the license in April 2007 so I could join the speculation. That makes my current here account 16 years old. Christ.
IIRC, that means I started lurking when the anime was at Water 7 and the manga was starting Enies Lobby.
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@MugiMikey said in The Arlong Park Anniversary thread!:
the manga was starting Enies Lobby
Gorram. Crazy to think that the manga got from Enies Lobby to Marineford in 4 years.
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@MetaMario said in The Arlong Park Anniversary thread!:
In August I'll hit 13 years (god).
oh good, now it's gonna be 14 years
