Before the board was up, did you ever visit SD.net?

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Did you visit SD.Net?

Yes, for a long long time
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Yes, but only in the month prior
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I started reading the site, right as the board went up
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I came here after the board was up
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Can someone please, please disable Straha's polling ability?
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Total votes: 85

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Before the board was up, did you ever visit SD.net?

Post by Straha »

I did, and then it was put up whilst I was away on vacation for two weeks.
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Post by Shinova »

I voted I came here after the board was up, but in reality I might've glanced at the main site a long time ago.
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Yeah, I came in from a link to Mike's AoTC commentary and haven't left since.
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Post by Anarchist Bunny »

About 3 or 4 years ago I stumbled across the site and was pretty interested in the subject. Read all of the hate mail, and about half of the rest of the site and then stopped. A long time later I was on the net and really bored, and suddenly it came to me to go back to the site and I found he had recently set up a forum so I joined to kill time.
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I was not aware of the website before the board existed.
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Post by Straha »

The polling is neck and neck with knowing about it for a long time, tied with the board bringing them here, and with the suprising challenger of banning my polling abilities still going strong...
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WHO GAVE STRAHA THE POLL BUTTON BACK?
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Post by Chardok »

Yeah, I visited alot, Poured over the DS Vs. Alderann calcs, turbolaser commentaries, and (Especially) HAtemail. I drooled at the thought of seeing new hatemail, I thouroughly enjoyed seeing Mike ripping a new asshole. Hatemail was far too rare, I Thought. I lost comp ability for about a year, then, when I got a new one, one of the first places I visited was SDN, and I promptly joined the forums, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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I've been at SDN almost religiously since 1999. 0,0
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*Points to Kojikun's post*

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Post by Gandalf »

I came here a few months before the board opened up. I was one of those guys who believed the navigational deflector story and such. I found this site and felt very disillusioned, yet I kept reading, I was a glutton for punishment. The forum opened up, I created an account, forgot about it, came back and created this one.
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I first found the site in 1999, and have been a regular visitor ever since.
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Post by El Moose Monstero »

Never really gave SWvsST a second thought until I found Starcrossed linked on TGU, have been here ever since, although only posted for half of that.
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I found SDnet back in 1998, I think, or early 1999. Mr. Wong kindly pointed me in the direction of ASVS.

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Shit yeah, Mike's science essays (especially his explanation on stress and why you can't scale things up) really helped me grasp second year solid mechanics!

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Post by aphexmonster »

oh my god, you mean to tell me theres more than just the message board?! :shock:
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Day I joined was the first time I ever saw the site.

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Post by Lord of the Farce »

I think I first visited SD.net in 2K.
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Post by Dahak »

It was a looong way back that I first stumbled into SD.net. Was quite amusing to read :)
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A friend sent me the link over ICQ. I spent hours pouring over it on that first night, it was a joy to read.
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Post by Bertie Wooster »

I first discovered the site in the spring or summer of '99 and followed the fanfic Conquest like an addict. It became one of my favorite web-sites because it provided me with the facts necessary to refute the trek-supremacist rhetoric my friends used to spew at me.

Unfortunately in college, many, many times when I was supposed to be doing research or writing a paper at the library I ended up reading the sd.net articles instead.
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Post by salm »

i lurked around for a month or so befor i joined.
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Post by Soontir C'boath »

I came here once by accident a year or so before the board went up. It's very amazing that I came back a couple days after it just went up too. :lol:

Sorry Straha :P *Presses last button*

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Post by Luzifer's right hand »

I found a month this board after someone linked me to a list of the 1000 biggest forums in the net(no-spam forums of course ;) ),
but I stumbled upon the main site before, about one year ago.
I found a link on a forum for the german Perry Rhodan SF-series.
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In 2000 or so i was having a friendly debate with a connie fan-boy. Nice fella but he was arguing that the E-nil could vapourise a planet as easily as the death star. I got pissed off at his constant mouthing every time wqe went to a LAN party so i decided to do some research. Initially i was looking for pictures of a Star Destroyer and it's stats for a PowerPoint presentation i was putting togeather and i found here. Rather then go to any more trouble i e-mailed him a link to the turbolaser comentaries and he went from there. He doesn't speak of the Connie anymore.
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