How did you hear of SD net

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-08-08 02:58am

I found a link to the main site on either Robert Brown or Curtis Saxton's site in high school sophomore year (~late 1999), and it became a site that I read and visited regularly. When the board came on, I lurked and then joined almost immediately.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-08-08 03:00am

Did a search for Carracks, the medieval kind, found a bunch Star Wars Carrack refrences, and said "what in THE fuck?". Then, with AOTC being released it sparked my slumbering interest in SW, and I did a search for "Star Destroyer", and found the main site.

Perversely, I joined SB after reading the hate mail page, but two weeks later I joined here....

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-08-08 03:06am

Dalton wrote:Bollocks. I remember welcoming you and you fast became one of us.

I remember that too, pretty cool. I think I showed up right around the furious days of the Wong/Anderson debate (and I still check in via Google fairly often). Good times

Darth Yoshi wrote:Well if he wants to bash himself who are we to stop him?

heh it is one of few things I'm really good at

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-08 03:30am

Drewcifer wrote:
Dalton wrote:Bollocks. I remember welcoming you and you fast became one of us.
I remember that too, pretty cool. I think I showed up right around the furious days of the Wong/Anderson debate (and I still check in via Google fairly often). Good times

I think it was petering out a bit when you sauntered in, but the timing sounds about right.

Then again, I can't remember last week

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-08-08 03:45am

i found sb.com and read through the forums but didn´t want to join because there are too many morons over there. then i discovered a link there to sd.net with basicly the same kind of people minus the morons.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-08-08 05:11am

I was on Creationweb, but missed the whole 'incident that shall not speak its name'. However, there was much bitching, and when a friend of mine mentioned the main site, I wandered straight inot the forum

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-08-08 05:25am

I think I heard about it from ASVS. My memory can be a bit hazy at times.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-08-08 05:26am

Found the fanfic at Sf debris during a lul moment at a really huge project I was involved in 1999.

From there I got to Daltons ASVS Fanfic Archive And read most of the fanfics.

At the archive links side I found the link to SD.NET

I remember the great fun I had surfing in now and then and checking if MW had updated Conquest yet

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-08-08 05:41am

Stumbled on to Mike creationism page and went from there to the Main site and eventualy to the Forums. I didn't join until about a month and a half after that.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-08-08 05:59am

Friend sent me a link to the main site.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-08 06:09am

I noticed a thread on ASVS about this boards creation and came right over.

JodoForce · Post by **JodoForce** » 2003-08-08 06:16am

I don't remember exactly HOW I got here but I remember it started from this page and the stuff at the bottom about Knight Rider and Cylons

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2003-08-08 06:18am

About two years ago there was a SW vs. ST argument going on over at the SWG board, and someone put a link to Poe’s page up. After I read everything over there, I strolled onto Mike's.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-08 06:49am

I decided to join SD.net when i heard how friendly SD.netters were

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2003-08-08 06:52am

1. Someone posted the turbolaser page in an ST vs. SW argument...WOW

2. inspired me to google for more data in the arguments, which were still quite pointless those days on local boards ("saliva-war"...which meant any side were just barking pointless points....)

3. Found Poe's page....WOW^2

4. Linked to the "I want you for the Galactic Empire"...WOW^10

5. tried the title page...WOW^1T

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-08-08 07:01am

RedImperator wrote:I discovered the main site just surfing around one day, after that I checked for updates pretty regularaly. I somehow missed the announcement the board had been created for more than a week.

A week? Hell, I missed it for almost a year.

Post by **Edi** » 2003-08-08 07:10am

I was a regular poster at Heavengames forums and we were having a periodic upsurge of fundies that needed some serious kicking in the nuts, when somebody linked Mike's Creationism pages. I read those, then slowly moved to the rest of the site. I haven't seen another site on the web that is on the whole half as entertaining as SDnet is. I joined the board after it had been operational for a week.

Edi

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2003-08-08 07:46am

frequented sd.net the site before it had a forum. Never been to these other forums. Only been to www.coolsigforum.com and some aviation specific forums (pprune, YSSY and Avsim) in the past.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-08-08 08:30am

I've heard of the SD.net for years, from ASVS. I've occasionally visited it. When it was anounced on ASVS that the forum was created I just said, "Meh." and ignored it. It was only until this April that I've seriously made an attempt to join SD.net.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-08-08 08:35am

I'd seen the site a long, long time ago. Not a clue how I first heard of it. Anyway, I don't know what it was that made me check back on it, but I did, less than a week after the forum was created. Signed up for the hell of it. Stayed for the hell of it.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-08-08 08:56am

I'm not too sure where and when, but the "where" I think it was most likely off of the now-gone Debate Slate of the Turbolaser Commentaries, while I suspect the "when" would be very early in the site's history - I remember the sidebar having large brown imperial logos for about a week or two before they changed to green.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-08-08 09:02am

I was snooping around the links page for the SWTC. I clicked the link, and voila(Literally:cool Star Wars site)!

otter · Post by **otter** » 2003-08-08 09:16am

Read about the site (mostly from Mr. Wong -vs- Trekkies threads over at SB.COM)

Since my ISP no longer recognizes SB.COM, I signed up and begin posting here.

I must say the lack of trolls here is like a breath of fresh air

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2003-08-08 09:17am

I found SD.net though pure luck.
Simply tried this adress, and BANG!
I must say, it was a good thing, I found this site.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2003-08-08 10:06am

I first came across this page a few years ago, while I was surfing around for stuff about Star Wars. I found a link on altavista or something (I think this was before google's days

) that sounded funny: "I want you for the Galactic Empire". "Heh", I thought and clicked on it. A pic of Darth Vader pointing at me with the text "I want You for the Galactic Empire" above it. I thought "he he he, that looks just like that guy Uncle Sam. Hehe funny", and left the page and didn't think much about it for some time.

But after month of watching Voyager (the only sci-fi TV showed back then. Now they have upgraded to Andromeda

and Enterprise

), I decided to see if I could find some movies or something were Voyager and the rest of Star Trek getting it's ass kicked by Star Wars so I search google for (taadaa) "ST vs SW". The first pages just showed the usual crap "10 reasons why ST kicks SW's ass"-"jokes" and that asshole David Brin's page. Later I found "The I Hate Star Trek"-page and Poe's page. But when I searched for "SW vs ST" I found a familiar-sounding page. "I want you for the Galactic Empire". I knew I had heard ot read that at some other place. So I clicked on the link and saw Darth Vader pointing at me and remebered that I had been here before. I realised that this wasn't a pure Star Wars site. This was a versus site and definately one of the best. I checked in almost every day and read the fanfic and everything else and one day there was a link that said "Discussion Forum". I clicked it and I found this forum. A month later, I registered.

And there you have the full story.

The short-short version: I just surfed in.

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How did you hear of SD net

How did you hear of SD net?