How Did you Find Stardestroyer.net ??

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2002-10-11 10:43pm

Fooling around on Google one day I stumbled on this site about a year ago. LOVED the hatemail page and kept checking regularly for updates. I liked the way Mike thought and his site was extremely entertaining, it was through here that I discovered the world beyond, like ASVS and so forth.

His fanfic also inspired me to write mine. I said "Hey I always wanted to do one of these." and lo and behold I am living my dream.

All thanks to SD.Net.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-10-11 10:47pm

I was on SB and heard this board's name being mentioned here and there. Got curious and took a look here. Then joined in.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-11 10:53pm

salm wrote:a link on sb.com a couple of weeks ago,
btw how long does sd.net exist?

the forums obviously exist since july 2002

It's been since late 1998. I can't find the exact date.

I've been skimming the site since late 1999.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-10-11 10:55pm

Stormbringer wrote:
salm wrote:a link on sb.com a couple of weeks ago,
btw how long does sd.net exist?

the forums obviously exist since july 2002
It's been since late 1998. I can't find the exact date.

I've been skimming the site since late 1999.

what have you been doing here? were there regular updades?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-11 11:00pm

salm wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:
It's been since late 1998. I can't find the exact date.

I've been skimming the site since late 1999.
what have you been doing here? were there regular updades?

Read through the site. Followed the semi-regular updates to the site.

Did the same thing on SWTC for even longer. I've even made a few contributions to Curtis's site.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-11 11:03pm

I don't remember when, but I did a Yahoo search on Star Destroyers. I found...this. It was shortly after Mike posted the final chapter of Conquest. I remember how utterly fascinated I was by his objectivity, something so rarely found in SW vs ST.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-11 11:14pm

Well, a friend of mine was constantly showing me posts from here and asvs. I really enjoyed them and he finally sent me a link. So, now I'm here.

The friend? Well, he's the roommate of Nick, but doesn't post himself.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-10-11 11:15pm

interresting

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-11 11:21pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Well, a friend of mine was constantly showing me posts from here and asvs. I really enjoyed them and he finally sent me a link. So, now I'm here.

The friend? Well, he's the roommate of Nick, but doesn't post himself.

Have you ever checked out the FUQ? It's hilarious. You real ought to some time.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-11 11:23pm

Stormbringer wrote:
Kelly Antilles wrote:Well, a friend of mine was constantly showing me posts from here and asvs. I really enjoyed them and he finally sent me a link. So, now I'm here.

The friend? Well, he's the roommate of Nick, but doesn't post himself.
Have you ever checked out the FUQ? It's hilarious. You real ought to some time.

Yep, sure have. In fact, that was actually what really pushed me into registering.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-11 11:41pm

I must have been reading Saxton's site, years ago (did it exist in 1995-1996? can't remember, but probably around those dates). Then I think I wanted some more hard data about Millenium Falcon, so I found some page with blueprints. It had also info on lightsabers, I think it was that page with the space fork in it, but back then it had this ugly black background and lame lightsabers as horizontal separators

Somehow I ended up here. I guess it would be from a link in that page. I've been reading this whole site since it appeared. Then as I finished reading every single line of text I let it rest for a long time, so I gave it a rest. Only about a month ago I discovered the BBS, I think it was fairly new (june-july?) so I signed in and here I am.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-11 11:46pm

Slartibartfast wrote:I must have been reading Saxton's site, years ago (did it exist in 1995-1996?

Nope, not til 1997

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2002-10-12 12:14am

I was searching the net for some info on Star Destroyers about a year ago on Google and I just came accross it. I remember I was totally blown away by the ammount of info on the site and the attention to scientific detail aswell.

Before I found this site, I always figured a Stardestroyer would beat the Enterprise D/E... but just barely. I never fully realized just how much better Star Wars weapons and tech in general was compared to ST. But once I read through most of Mikes site, I just thought, "Hey, you know what, not only does this guy know what he's talking about, but all of it just seems so common sense! I can't believe what an idiot ive been all this time!"

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-10-12 12:19am

I was reading an article on racism in Star Wars. I decided to search for other opinions and stumbled upon Darth Wong's essay on racism in SW and ST.

Oh yeah:
http://www.detnews.com/2002/entertainme ... 492788.htm

You guys have probably already read this but that was the article. I thought it was funny yet kind of disturbing. No concept of the history of SW.

""I frankly think the bounty hunter is Arab[in reference to Boba Fett]," says college counselor Imad Nouri of Royal Oak."

Hmm. Let's see a white guy played him in the OT. A Maori kid played him in AOTC. Yup must be an Arab. Stupid fucks.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-12 12:33am

Anyone else get shades of Hooper and Banky off that article? I was waiting for the gunshots at the end.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-10-12 12:39am

Actually I found that panel on racism kind of racist. I mean where are the Asians damn it?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-12 12:40am

neoolong wrote:Actually I found that panel on racism kind of racist. I mean where are the Asians damn it?

There's no pleasing some people.

David · Post by **David** » 2002-10-12 01:27am

Right after the site started. I read everything he put up and then checked back every couple of days for updates on his STvsSW facts and when he was writing his fanfic.

And a damn good fanfic it was

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-10-12 01:44am

I was poking around this site since before the forum came into existance.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2002-10-12 06:52am

I can't really remember how I found it but when I did the fanfic was only up to chapter 6.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2002-10-12 07:08am

A random Google search led me to the ASVS fanfic archive. I read something called "10 Ways to piss off a Trekkie" and one of them was "Post the link to stardestroyer.net". Curious, I typed it in, and voilà.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-10-12 11:58am

I was doing a school project on Imperial Star Destroyers a few years ago and ran a search for Star Destroyers, i'm been poping in from time to time ever since, the Multimedia section was very useful.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-10-12 12:31pm

I was searching for infos on Star Destroyers and other SW imp capships
since I wanted to do a comprehensive website with info on them, well that was about 3 1/2 years ago and the site was fairly new back then.
Later I gave up the website plan, though, but being a SW fan I kept visiting SD.net from time to time.
Well I was lurking in the background of the SWvsST debate for 3 years now and then when SD.net got the board I decided to finally reveal my presence......
everything has proceeded as I have forseen.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2002-10-12 01:46pm

My brother used to talk about it so one day while in a computer pod with a friend we joined.

TheDarkOne · Post by **TheDarkOne** » 2002-10-12 05:28pm

I either got the url when someone posted it on gamefaqs, or I found it in a search, can't remember which.