Just wanted to acknowledge these first 5. [Screenshot_20210713-004624-01]

Kool will have to give specifics on those really early days. Kool, Allen Harkleroad and I think a guy named TallMike pretty much ran things. I think Allen may have been the very first originator .. but I’m not sure. My brain is fuzzy all these years later lol :stuck_out_tongue: When I came in it…

Allen Harkleroad, launched the forum on October 7th 2002. Tall Mike joined up a few days later and Allen made him the moderator. I joined a few days later. The forum was really dead for the first 6 months or so, mostly just a few members shootin the shit in the off topic forum. In the spring and sum…

That’s very interesting, and I’ve wondered about it from time to time. I vaguely remember Allen Harkleroad’s name being mentioned on the old green forum after I joined. Thanks for connecting the dots. Two thousand posts per day, though. Wow! We could use a few of those posts on some days, but I wou…

Thanks Kool :smiley: .. good to know a few of my wires are still connected upstairs lol :stuck_out_tongue: I have a feeling it was sold in 2005 because everything was well in place when I got here the next year. Ahh .. I love reminiscing :heart: We would have some majorly fun times.. The wacky po…

I often wonder what happened to Bob. I made a mini poster outta one of his posts. It’s still on my bulletin board. And it’s still true. It features a Civil War Battlefield sketch where everyone is dead (n.b. part of my job is image acquisition and most often for the Civil War Era.) The caption read…

I loved the PS parties but my favorites were the avatar days, especially the spontaneous ones like the day we all changed our avatars to naked mole rats or axolotls. There were some great April Fools tricks like the time we changed all the avatars to Captain Kirk and the time we just switched all th…

I was originally 2005… yikes!

I seem to remember a topic where some kid posted his bare-chested self and seriously asked if somebody wouldn’t mind Photoshopping in some six-pack abs. If I remember right, this spiraled into some interesting retouching work.

Hats off to the first 5 users on GDF!

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