I feel amazingly old and you should too
 

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

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

EDIT: Silly Darth. :P

12 is Decembre.

That is right.

I learned how to read numbers in that 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.

You were 13 in 2003?

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

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?

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!

Get off my lawn!
 

I know, right?

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.

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