How did you discover SD.net?

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-08-09 12:08pm

Me? The random URL effect. I just wondered who owned "stardestroyer.net" and keyed it in. Then...it started.

What about you all? Come from ASVS? Random too? Or some other means?

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-08-09 12:10pm

Link from another board.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-08-09 12:10pm

pretty sure these've been done before, but meh. cheap +1

somebody posted a link to a fanfic over on the sluggy messageboards, i discovered the site had a forum and started reading through it. liked what i saw and signed up.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2004-08-09 12:11pm

Searching on yahoo or google about an explanation to some of treknology.

Grog · Post by **Grog** » 2004-08-09 12:12pm

I come from spacebattles

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-08-09 12:16pm

I was talking to Utsanomiko at school, and he gave me the website's URL.

He told me a couple months later that he was shocked at how well I was fitting in.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-08-09 12:19pm

'Star Wars' or 'star destroyer' web search using probably either excite.com or dogpile.com. That was back before Google is you can believe it.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-08-09 12:23pm

Believe it or not, I was looking for hate mail by creationists and found Mike Wong's page. After looking at other stuff on his site, I ended up here.

CrimsonRaine · Post by **CrimsonRaine** » 2004-08-09 12:28pm

Simpliest explanation, I've seen Red post here several times and I was actually reluctant to join (he said there wasn't much here to pique my interest). But I joined anyway, and ended up enjoying my time more than I expected.

Raine

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2004-08-09 12:30pm

My brother found the site back in 1999, I think was the year. He read a lot of it aloud when I was in the room or I simply read over his shoulder, though I'd reread bits it myself when I got the chance. Signed up on the board after summer break after highschool once I got the chance.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-08-09 12:40pm

A search for pics of Renaisance carracks produced pics of SW carracks(I had no idea such an animal existed), which led to a search for Star Destroyer pics, which led to a SW vs ST search due to a wild hair up my ass, and found the main site. I actually joined SB first, and joined here two weeks later.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-08-09 12:50pm

I converted from Spacebattles

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-08-09 12:58pm

I've known about Stardestroyer.net since early/mid 2000 thanks to my involvement in the VS debates at Spacebattles. Less then a week after this boards creation it was linked at Spacebattles and I popped in for a look. Decided I didn't want to bother. Three weeks later or so I drop in and start doing searches on the forum for anything of interest and low and behold someone had a thread going about some photoshop work I did. I've been here ever since.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-08-09 01:04pm

I discovered it around the time I was creating it

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-08-09 01:05pm

I was randomly typing starwars items as urls such as xwing.com and etc until I hit stardestroyer.com, then stardestroyer.org, and finally stardestroyer.net and viola I found the site. This was I believe in 2001 and I forgot about it until the next year when I tried the same thing again and found that this site got a forum and here I am.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-08-09 01:06pm

Darth Wong wrote:I discovered it around the time I was creating it

An outrageous claim with zero proof.

(edit for the denser among us)

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-08-09 01:06pm

I found it around May of 2002, while trying to find out more about AotC. From IGN, I went to Theforce.net, then to Star Wars Technical Commentaries, and finally here. I registered when I did because I was away when the board started, and I hesitated for a few days after getting back before joining.

Faabio · Post by **Faabio** » 2004-08-09 01:12pm

Hum through ASVS Fanfic archive at the turn of the millenium or thereabouts. joined quite resently after reading trough all of the public forums. And now back to lurker mode

Cosmic Average · Post by **Cosmic Average** » 2004-08-09 01:12pm

People were complaining about it on SB.com so I wanted to see what all the fuss was about..

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2004-08-09 01:12pm

I was browsing through TrekBBS one day (not that I was ever a member - a pity, those flood-check screens were annoying), and decided to browse into an ST-v-SW thread on the Trek Technology board. It was about what you'd expect from that board - a few voices of reason drowned in "No Laser" arguments, Q, "ST tech is better because it looks better" and so forth.

One of the members linked here, calling Mike a "nutter" and a "hypocrite" (or something similar - not that they actually bothered to give examples), I decided to check out for myself - and failed to see what they were talking about. Of course, everything became clear when I saw Dorkster's site!

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2004-08-09 01:15pm

Portal of evil.....

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-08-09 02:08pm

My presence here is all weemadando's fault.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2004-08-09 02:26pm

This is certainly not the first one of these. Oh well.

I was looking for Star Wars stuff, eventually found a STvsSW site (one detailing the RSA vs. Mike debate, actually).. From there I found a site on the web ring this one belongs to, and eventually got here. I found the forums, read all of starcrossed (up to that point), and signed up to worship Stravo.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2004-08-09 02:27pm

I did a yahoo search on Stardestroyers way back in 2000.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-08-09 02:28pm

There was a troll on the Indepedence War message board by the name of Duffy who posted an angry rant about Mike's site. Never have I seen such a rant. It was completely incoherent. It sounded like the guy's head was about to explode. I figured I had to see a site that caused that much anger in at least one moron. That's how I discovered the webiste. That was in 2000 or 2001.

I discovered the message board when Mike announced it on his site (or maybe he announced it on ASVS, can't remember). I didn't sign up until 2 weeks later, because I wasn't convinced people would migrate away from ASVS in sufficient numbers and there would just be a small group of posters from there. Boy was I wrong