I feel amazingly old and you should too

[Darth SS]

So, I'm at work, it's my last day, and there's not a lot to do. I sign onto NPF, twiddle around, laugh at the outrageous things that are thrown about and then click on my User CP. Scrolling down, I come across events for which I was rep'd. The earliest one comes from December 2003. "Wow," ponders my alluring baritone voice within my mind, "That was a long time ago. I was practically..."

It hits me. I was 13 when that happened. That was back when I played SOCOM and decided to make the Kill-Team RP. Long-time veterans will remember that I tried, unsuccessfully, to run a special-ops style RP a couple times. The running joke was that in the RP forum there were four constants. 1) Raiden would be running a Soldiers of Light every week, 2) Cyber Wars just wouldn't end dammit, 3) SS would be trying to run Kill Team and 4) Raiden's character would hit on CJ's character. So I start thinking about how I got onto this forum and...

I joined after TopWebComics melted down. Honestly, I can't even remember how I learned about the switch. At that time, I had probably been on TopWeb for about a year, so I signed up in either 2001 or 2002. To put that in context, I was either 11 or 12. I am now 20 years old, about to turn 21. When I joined I think I was in the seventh grade, I am now entering my fourth year of university. When I joined I had just got a PS2 and thought it was the greatest thing to ever grace the face of the earth, and my biggest concern was the fact that I was having funny feelings for a girl and that I had a couple of hairs on my upper lip. I now have a job, and drive to classes, and live with roommates and all that.

I have spent almost half my life as a member of this forum.

I feel old.

You should to. Y'all have basically been random bystanders watching me "grow up"

EDIT: MOTHERFUCKIN' TYPO IN THE TITLE AAAAARGH

[Flarecobra]

*Looks at the date for the first Rep point... then looks at the Join Date*

EDIT: Silly Darth. :P

[Darth SS]

12 is Decembre.

That is right.

I learned how to read numbers in that time.

[Lost in Time]

Seriously, this forum has been set up for seven years about? This is ancient in internet terms. We can officially be senile and get away with it.

Man, I was 12 when I joined this forum in TWC days, I've been with you through middle school, high school and college. Insane.

[krogothwolf]

You were 13 in 2003?

Fuck....I'm really goddamn old then :/

[Flarecobra]

Yeah, I joined not too long after the move to TWC... and lurked around the EZ Boards before offically joining

And also, NO one has ever heard from Gieco at all, in all this time, huh?

[krogothwolf]

I lurked since the beginning. I only made an account recently cause I was bored and had no other forum so I joined up this one. But man, freakin young whippersnappers!

[synkr0nized]

You were 13 in 2003?

Fuck....I'm really goddamn old then :/

I know, right?

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I recently got an e-mail from some German forum I used to be a pretty active member of. They congratulated me on my 10 year membership. I was 13 then. I haven't visited this place in years because I outgrew the average age and IQ* of that Forum rather quickly. And they also sold out! Totally. I emigrated to Last.fm circa 2006, which had some great forums at the time. But all the cool people have been banned or left. I've been occasionally lurking NPF since... ever? Until I decided to register an account in 2008, and probably another one I forgot about earlier.

This is a good deal of the story of my forum journey through the Internet.

But yeah, I've been feeling old ever since I turned 21, which I officially** declared the age when the average human being begins to die**.

*Like a high number makes me smarter than you, by some alien logic. I just didn't want to say the members were pretty dumb. So I implied I was more intelligent. I mean: Ooops.

** Yeah, right.

[Jesus]

I feel old.

weh-weh

[Terex4]

weh-weh
Aw hell, Jesus is back, someone get CJ in here with bannination powers!

I forget which board I had joined briefly before this one, but it was blue and the member's sigs were about 6 inches in height and full of animated gifs. It hurts my eyes to remember it.

I forget how old I was when I joined the current forums, I think I was 19 or 20.

I only ever ventured into the RP forum briefly, we had Calvinball in off topic back then :cool:

Edit: Wow I forget a lot, someone's going to have to open a nursing home forum on these boards to make sure I don't forget my pants before I post or something.

[CelesJessa]

Aw hell, Jesus is back, someone get CJ in here with bannination powers!

Me an Jesus are bros now.


Also Ah, SS, I think you were the very first person I remember interacting with on these forums (well, back on thetopwebcomics forum), my older brother had joined the rpers and I thought it looked like fun so I decided to join in too. AND I NEVER LEFT.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Dear Darth SS:

In 2003, I was graduating from highschool and turning 18. Last weekend I talked with the daughter of one my mom's friends who is going into Grade 10 this year and wanted some advice from me. I have known this girl since she was in grade 1. You are not old. I am old. Krogo is old and Jesus is hella old!

Hugs n Kisses

Mac

[Sithdarth]

I didn't even join this forum until like my second year of college and I still only missed the message board transition by mere months. I'm starting grad school on Monday and had a seminar today about how to deal with toxic waste and general lab safety which was an "Oh my god this is almost like a Job" moment. Despite the fact that I'm only 26 I've had a receding hairline and the odd gray hair (it's starting to get uncomfortably close to the salt and pepper stage) for at least a year. Not only am I old I'm also apparently aging rapidly.

[Hanuman]

Starcraft came out 12 years ago. Fuuuuuuck.

[Sithdarth]

Pfft I have my old NES hooked to my 42in HD flatscreen LCD TV. Along with my SNES, N64, Xbox360, and PS3. I actually played a little Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link not that long ago.

[Hanuman]

Yes but those things FEEL old, starcraft doesn't feel that old to me.

[Sithdarth]

The SNES and the N64 don't feel that old to me. I remember wanting and getting both for Christmas (well I have a lot of siblings and we were all together back then so they where more for the whole family) when they both came out respectively.

[RickZarber]

Despite the fact that I'm only 26 I've had a receding hairline and the odd gray hair (it's starting to get uncomfortably close to the salt and pepper stage) for at least a year. Not only am I old I'm also apparently aging rapidly.Dude, I'm 26 too, and I have been losing my hair since I was 18. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

[Darth SS]

Starcraft came out 12 years ago. Fuuuuuuck.

Kids in Grade 4 weren't alive when 9/11 happened. Kids in high school never watched Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

It has been 12 years since Starcraft, more since Warcraft, WoW is almost seven years old, and Halo is almost 10 years old.

[Eldezar]

Kids in Grade 4 weren't alive when 9/11 happened. Most Kids in high school never watched Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

It has been 12 years since Starcraft, more since Warcraft, WoW is almost seven years old, and Halo is almost 10 years old.

If you feel old now you are gonna have some big issues next year.

[Fifthfiend]

Yes but those things FEEL old, starcraft doesn't feel that old to me.

Probably cause they only just got around to releasing Starcraft 1.5

[Wigmund]

Kids in Grade 4 weren't alive when 9/11 happened.

Senior year of high school when that happened. Found out what was going on when I walked into my English class and said "Oh cool, we're watching a movie!" when I glanced at the TV.

Kids in high school never watched Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Let alone Saved By The Bell, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Full House, Charles In Charge, My Two Dads, Perfect Strangers, Small Wonder, Punky Brewster...

[Nique]

I have no idea what prompted me to join these forums after highschool. But here I am. Seven years later, here I am...

Oh! I remember. I was on the Megatokyo forums and... that didn't go well. Anyone remember Megatokyo? Haha. Oh man.

[krogothwolf]

Senior year of high school when that happened. Found out what was going on when I walked into my English class and said "Oh cool, we're watching a movie!" when I glanced at the TV.



Let alone Saved By The Bell, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Full House, Charles In Charge, My Two Dads, Perfect Strangers, Small Wonder, Punky Brewster...

You've forgotten Who's The Boss, Growing Pains, Rosanne, and Step by Step. I'd say The Crosby Show, but he then made the far worse Crosby later on.

And of course.....Married With Children!!!! Fuck, the theme song is stuck in my head now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twu7NFjG1Ys&feature=related

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

You've forgotten Who's The Boss, Growing Pains, Rosanne, and Step by Step. I'd say The Crosby Show, but he then made the far worse Crosby later on.

And of course.....Married With Children!!!! Fuck, the theme song is stuck in my head now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twu7NFjG1Ys&feature=related

Love an Marriage
Love an Marriage
Goes together like a Horse an Carriage!

[Terex4]

The nineties ended 10 years ago
Everyone born in the 80s is legal to smoke, vote, and die
There are four edition to D&D now
If you are old enough to say "20 years ago I did____" and you don't fill the blank with fill your diaper, you're old
Our stupid kid words and phrases aren't even remembered and a whole new era of stupid kid words and phrases have been ushered in (for cereal yo)
Some of us have spawned...at the ripe old age spawning should take place (queue Hugh..I mean Krogo)

Edit: In fact I'm going to preempt Krogo on this one!
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7118/family187.th.jpg (http://img641.imageshack.us/i/family187.jpg/)

[Flarecobra]

Hell, I remember when the WWF was good...

[TDK]

Fuck I was nine when I joined this forum originally. I'm in college now.

I feel old. This forum is old.

[krogothwolf]

Wait Wait, so showing pictures of a kid is "prempting Krogo"? Now....shit...

[CABAL49]

Anyone younger than me doesn't know what DOS is.

[Darth SS]

Well, I think TDK just won this thread.

Joining when you were nine? I mean, I generally understand that NPF is less of a shithole than a lot of the internet, but...how fundamentally did fifthfiend alter your mind? Why would you subject yourself to that evil?

[Eldezar]

Anyone younger than me doesn't know what DOS is.

how old is you?

[TDK]

Well, I think TDK just won this thread.

Joining when you were nine? I mean, I generally understand that NPF is less of a shithole than a lot of the internet, but...how fundamentally did fifthfiend alter your mind? Why would you subject yourself to that evil?

Man I distinctly remember when fifth wasn't even a mod.

Well, the first time he wasn't a mod anyway. I left for a while and I came back and was like "who the fuck made this guy a mod"

But yeah, npf has done its fair share in shaping who I am.

[RickZarber]

Next year, kids will be turning 18 who were born after Jurassic Park came out.

[bluestarultor]

I was told there are people just barely younger than me who never saw a rotary phone.

Kids these days have no idea how to work a command prompt. They also have no idea what BBS means, much less what it is. I don't think most of them have ever heard of shareware, either.

I remember as a kid, 256-color graphics were top-of-the-line. I played them alongside EGA games. Roland made the best sound cards for music, but everything else sounded funny because of it.

My childhood was marked by the first CD technology in computers. We bought Lands of Lore twice because of it.

[phil_]

Fuck I was nine when I joined this forumThat explains a lot.

[Sithdarth]

I remember as a kid, 256-color graphics were top-of-the-line.

The first computer my family ever owned, which I of course played at every opportunity, was one of those with 5 1/2 inch drives, no internal harddisk storage, and a monotone screen. We did get a Windows 3.1 machine eventually and by then I was old enough to fool around in DOS and I even installed an parallel port card in the thing as well as setting up a switch to share the printer when we eventually got another one which instantly became mine.

[TDK]

That explains a lot.

I know, right?

[RickZarber]

The first computer my family ever owned, which I of course played at every opportunity, was one of those with 5 1/2 inch drives, no internal harddisk storage, and a monotone screen.Same here! I probably spent several weeks of my life all told playing that thing! I can remember launching games seemed like having to put in a secret password, and it wasn't until I was a bit older, when my dad showed me how to just look up the EXE file on the disk, that I figured things out. We didn't have another type of computer until 1996... it was quite the leap. :P

[Terex4]

Wait Wait, so showing pictures of a kid is "prempting Krogo"? Now....shit...
I made my triumphant return with 3 more kids than I left here with. I was going to be all like check out mah kids, but you had baby pics up and I was like man I don't have any babies all mine are hulking monsters.

Too many parents aren't as excited about their kids as they should be. Be proud of how proud you are :D

[Nique]

man I don't have any babies all mine are hulking monsters.

You had hulking monsters instead of babies?

What are you?

[krogothwolf]

You had hulking monsters instead of babies?

What are you?

He's a genetic scientist creating super human kids to control the world!

[Geminex]

I thought that was Smarty?

Anyway, I'm young. Compared to you, anyway. Real young. I mean goddamn. What did I miss?

(Also, first person to order me off their lawn gets accused of not understanding people my age)

[Fenris]

I joined when I was 13, just before entering high school. Now I'm in my second year of college. Been a ride, that's for sure.

[Terex4]

He's a genetic scientist creating super human kids to control the world!
Its working too well. They've decided my house is the first place to conquer.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I thought that was Smarty?

Anyway, I'm young. Compared to you, anyway. Real young. I mean goddamn. What did I miss?

(Also, first person to order me off their lawn gets accused of not understanding people my age)

It's not like I even know your age, you damn youngster who may or may not actually be older than me. But judging from that post you're probably the guy who smoked pot on my lawn and you know what? I'm not telling you to get off there. Just promise to share next time.

[krogothwolf]

Its working too well. They've decided my house is the first place to conquer.

Least you know who rules the house now!

[Terex4]

My last two strongholds have been penetrated. Of course I'm the dumbass who put my computer next to the kitchen and with newborn puppies living in my bedroom that base is starting to fall as well.

Estimates show the car will be seized within 5 years.

[Wigmund]

Look at it this way - hopefully by then Fayetteville will be re-entering another cycle of mild summers after a nice period of 'oh fuck the asphalt is re-melting' summers.

Then walking all over town won't be that bad.

[batgirl]

The running joke was that in the RP forum there were four constants. 1) Raiden would be running a Soldiers of Light every week, 2) Cyber Wars just wouldn't end dammit, 3) SS would be trying to run Kill Team and 4) Raiden's character would hit on CJ's character. So I start thinking about how I got onto this forum and...



Ah yes, the awesomeness that was my one moment of greatness on these forums, Cyber Wars, the two year RP that just wouldn't quit and actually ended.

I joined way back on EZBoards and then migrated to TopWeb and subsequently here in 2003 and I was entering my first year of College.

I always feel old when I'm paired with some 19 or 20 year old EMT who barely got certified this year. We have cert numbers and they're already in the 390,000s for the current EMTs. I'm in the 320,000s, it scares me sometimes that I've been an EMT for 6 years. They've changed the CPR protocols twice since I've started and back in the day we couldn't give ipecac or charcoal without consulting medical control. Nowadays they're thinking about letting us administer nasal narcan and teaching all EMTs to read EKGs. Amazing.

[Terex4]

Look at it this way - hopefully by then Fayetteville will be re-entering another cycle of mild summers after a nice period of 'oh fuck the asphalt is re-melting' summers.

Then walking all over town won't be that bad.
Now if they could just add some sidewalks and quit shutting down half of Wedington during peak hours...

[Darth SS]

I always feel old when I'm paired with some 19 or 20 year old EMT who barely got certified this year. We have cert numbers and they're already in the 390,000s for the current EMTs. I'm in the 320,000s, it scares me sometimes that I've been an EMT for 6 years. They've changed the CPR protocols twice since I've started and back in the day we couldn't give ipecac or charcoal without consulting medical control. Nowadays they're thinking about letting us administer nasal narcan and teaching all EMTs to read EKGs. Amazing.

Batgirl, regardless of circumstance or any scenario in which my life might be on the line, you are to never EVER put anything in me ever.

[Mondt]

I joined the forums with Twiddy and Mesden.

I think it was 6th grade. I'm in my freshman year of college now.

[batgirl]

Batgirl, regardless of circumstance or any scenario in which my life might be on the line, you are to never EVER put anything in me ever.

You'd love it and you know it.

[Nique]

You'd love it and you know it.

Saucy!

I think it was 6th grade. I'm in my freshman year of college now.

You guys suck. All of you. >: (

[Raiden]

I like how two of the constants involved me. And in my defense, the second one was because I was like...14 or 15 and didn't know how to handle myself around girls yet.

But yeah, feel super old. I remember when there was a time I was in the top 10 for most posts of anyone on the boards! Then it went away...

[Darth SS]

I like how two of the constants involved me. And in my defense, the second one was because I was like...14 or 15 and didn't know how to handle myself around girls yet.

Why are you using the past tense, creeper?

[Azisien]

I still remember joining NPF out of boredom in my first year of university. I was reading the comic itself, but then I found a StarCraft RP and decided to make an account.

My life has been one terrible incident after the next ever since then. But at least I have NPF!!!

[Magic_Marker]

Fuck I just recently stopped feeling like the new kid on the block.

[Raiden]

Why are you using the past tense, creeper?

Because now I have a girlfriend who'll hit me if I act creepy. It's good behavioral modification.

[krogothwolf]

Because now I have a girlfriend who'll hit me if I act creepy. It's good behavioral modification.

Pfft weakling! I have a wife that does that to me and it hasn't worked on me yet.

[Premmy]

I was... fourteen? when I started hanging around you losers?

[IHateMakingNames]

I was older than I thought I was when I started. Given I was on TWC for a bit, but I don't remember how long. Though I doubt it was over a year.

What always make me feel older is media. That Red vs Blue is actually 5 years old, that I'm enjoying playing Tactics Ogre now that I first played in what I assume is middle school, Lost actually started in 2004. Just realizing that there are children grown after things I have been enjoying for years came out.