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

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-12-27 11:35am

I found SD.net a couple of months before the board was up, around the end of spring. I was reading Saxton's Technical Commentaries and found a link here.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-12-27 11:50am

I was pointed towards SD.net in Feburary of 2000 and I checked on it a couple times a year since then. Then I heard about the forums and popped in a month after they opened. The rest is history.

Post by **Rob Wilson** » 2003-12-27 12:34pm

I first saw the Site when I was hunting Fanfic, back in early 2000. Read the rest of the site and enjoyed it.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-12-27 12:35pm

Nope came after a wee bit(when Forums was up) because I was yabbering with a group of mindless tribbles.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-12-27 01:18pm

I found this site after Mike's guest spot in Wayne's Hate Mail page. Don't remember the date, but ti was still when Conquest was being put up. I'd figure '99 since I wasn't in HS at the time...

And I think, by now, we know the story of my two user names.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-12-27 01:26pm

I can't actually remember why i first came to SD.Net, i thinki saw a link to it somewhere and was intregued. Going by the "Whats New" page i'm estimating that was somewhere between April and September in 2001. After that i bookmarked the page, even if the main reason was to see if there would be any new hate mail.

AoTC trial discussion boards went up and i made a few posts, then the fully fledged message board went up and i psigned up on the first day.

EDIT: Remembered where i got the link from. I was over at the SW Galaxies board and there was a STvsSW debate and someone linked to SD.Net.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-12-27 01:32pm

Sometime in 2000, searching on a library computer for Stardestroyers on Yahoo after I had been to Saxton's SWTC site, it was the first link.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-12-27 01:35pm

Found it when hunting for SWRPG material. Got intrigued, began my hunt for ASVS afterwards. Took me a long time to figure out how to use newsgroups.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-12-27 02:10pm

Always liked the giant wedge-shaped ships with gobs-o-guns, so found this website through a search engine. Mike had his fanfic posted, which I really enjoyed. Also learned a lot about hyperspace travel and turbolasers, pleasantly surprised at the whoopazzTM effect when compared to the Trekkie universe (Federation types and such). Later, I saw he added a forum -- wasn't interested until I saw a fellow named Darkstar raising a ruckus, so decided to hop on in to see if the water was warm...

baelfire1945 · Post by **baelfire1945** » 2003-12-28 01:57am

Yeah, I found the site looking at ST vs SW stuff several years ago and I've been a fairly regular visitor ever since.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-12-28 04:19am

In the year 2001 I found a link to Stardestroyer.net in a magazine article, a real paper magazine that has nothing to do with ST vs SW. Then I visited, was very impressed by the site and read the whole site in a week.

The next time I visited was in 2002. I noticed that the forums were up but choosed to lurk rather than particitipate. I did register eventualy and the rest is history.

PackMule · Post by **PackMule** » 2003-12-28 07:22am

Long time reader of the site, and then the board when it went up. Only just started actual posting.

Why the wait? Lack of my own personal time, and besides I'm not too interested in actually debating Wars Vs Trek, it seems like beating a dead dog to me. I mainly follow it for the "hey look at this idiot" kinda view. Also the numbers make my head hurt sometimes ... I'm a media whore damnit ... not a numbers person.

Post by **Rob Wilson** » 2003-12-28 01:13pm

evilcat4000 wrote:In the year 2001 I found a link to Stardestroyer.net in a magazine article, a real paper magazine that has nothing to do with ST vs SW.

SFX? They ran an article on good Sci-fi webpages back around that time.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-12-28 01:44pm

I first found this site somewhere between September and November of 1999. I was doing a search of Star Wars sites and there it was. Up until that time, I never had any clue that there ever was a Star Wars vs Star Trek debate going around.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-12-28 02:58pm

I don't recall exactly when I discovered SD.Net, but it was years before the forum was up.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-28 10:59pm

Why is this here?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-12-29 04:21am

Crown wrote:Why is this here?

Straha's spam polls have been methodically dumped into Testing by one of the mods.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-12-31 12:06pm

I don't know who locked this thread and placed it in the Testing Forum for deletion, but that is against board rules. This thread is not in any violation and the mod who did this did not leave their calling card behind. This thread is to remain open.

People, continue as you were.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-12-31 12:09pm

I came after having known about the site for about a year, and then finding out about the board, then waiting a few months.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-12-31 03:43pm

I visited a couple times a couple of years before the board went online.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-12-31 03:57pm

I came here from Wayne's site in 1999 or so, probably.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-12-31 05:58pm

I did a Yahoo! search for AT-ATs back in '99 or '00 and I stumbled upon the Weapons page. Checked back regularly ever since.

Lord Woodlouse · Post by **Lord Woodlouse** » 2004-01-01 10:16am

Sure did. I mean I've only ever used the forum on and off anyway, and now I've come back it seems to have more rules and ways of doing things.

When I first came here I think Mr. Wong was not sure if he should even introduce mods... ah, how power corrupts.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2004-01-01 04:01pm

I was looking over google or yahoo for the explantation for some treknology at around the year 2000 that I found far fetched and I stumbled upon this site. Before coming to this site I never tought about trek vs wars. After that I'd come back every once in a while for updates.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-01 08:17pm

I first read the site in Feb 1999 i think. Can't really remember much from that era

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