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Posted: 4/17/2002 6:00:21 PM EDT

....not only the OLD board, but the days before their even was a board? AR-Lists & AR-Digest?
AHHH those were the days(NOT)3 or 4 times a day you would get a 4-5 page e-mail with everything.
When did the board actualy begin?
echo6

Posted: 4/17/2002 8:04:28 PM EDT

[#1]

I have archives going back to '97...

-Troy

Posted: 4/17/2002 8:07:49 PM EDT

[#2]

BTT

[x]
(don't yell at me troy, i wanna know too.)

Posted: 4/17/2002 9:37:46 PM EDT

[#3]

Well I signed up in 2000 when it was the old UBB board. Back when GlockCop was active. I miss that guy. I think he got married and moved here to Dallas.

Posted: 4/17/2002 9:41:17 PM EDT

[#4]

I was there late 99, early 2000, when the board was a little more, ahem, lively. All the fun Bavarian/Mick bickering with Ed. And you think the moderator bashing is bad now? Oh, and could we have had more Y2K posts? Sure miss that. Though I thought the old board was easier on the eyes, I sure like the feel of this one better now.

Posted: 4/17/2002 9:42:00 PM EDT

[#5]

I sure do and I don't miss em at all. I will never forget the first day I stumbled onto this place.

*sniff* *sniff*

My name is Defcon, and I am an addict. Pass the coffee and doughnuts.

Posted: 4/17/2002 9:56:20 PM EDT

[#6]

I remember what happened in Baltimore.

Posted: 4/17/2002 10:09:54 PM EDT

[#7]

... Remember [b]ZEN[/b]s missile silo abode?

Posted: 4/17/2002 10:44:41 PM EDT

[#8]

Then there was Fluffy...

Posted: 4/17/2002 10:55:29 PM EDT

[#9]

I love the pattern in the responses. Those that registered in Nov 2000, when the new board first went up, and those that registered in Jan 2001, when the old board died.

Posted: 4/17/2002 11:05:32 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I remember what happened in Baltimore.

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Please tell me,what happened in Baltimore?

Posted: 4/17/2002 11:10:26 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
I love the pattern in the responses. Those that registered in Nov 2000, when the new board first went up, and those that registered in Jan 2001, when the old board died.

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... Don't know if I'd read too much into that.
I was registered on the original board as [b]SEF[/b]

Posted: 4/17/2002 11:15:26 PM EDT

[#12]

those of us on AR15-L soldier on:

[url]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AR15-L/[/url]

been personally obsessed since 1997. heh.

Posted: 4/18/2002 12:59:55 AM EDT

[#13]

I've been around since '99 and remember the Zens, CurioBob's, and Fluffy's of the world...

Jim

Posted: 4/18/2002 2:24:21 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Well I signed up in 2000 when it was the old UBB board. Back when GlockCop was active. I miss that guy. I think he got married and moved here to Dallas.

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I signed up back around the time of the 2000 Presidential election. Talk about an educating time to meet the folks here at AR15.com...

Glockcop still posts here occasionally under the handle "GlockcopLives". It's my understanding that his marriage, and new wife have changed his life quite a bit in a very positive way. I wish he had the time to post here more, really. But hey - with a new wife some things tend to take priority....

[sex] [sex] [sex] [sex] [sex]

Posted: 4/18/2002 2:38:50 AM EDT

[#15]

I was on the mailing list in `97 - Rambo, Corey from Olympic, and a few others ring a bell.... Dropped off in Jan `98 when I switched jobs and didn't come back until last year. Thankfully, I missed the whole Y2K deal.

Posted: 4/18/2002 2:56:26 AM EDT

[#16]

I received the mailing lists for a brief time. Then semi visited the old board until about its last year of existance. Played with the 'beta' version of this board and have been here ever since.

Posted: 4/18/2002 4:19:40 AM EDT

[#17]

How about Curio Bob and that very depressing pic of his??

Or when the only mods in the GD were Anti, DonR and Diverdown....

Posted: 4/18/2002 4:50:24 AM EDT

[#18]

AR-Lists & AR-Digest?
AHHH those were the days(NOT)3 or 4 times a day you would get a 4-5 page e-mail with everything

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AR15-L is alive and well and still around.

[email protected]

Posted: 4/18/2002 4:55:39 AM EDT

[#19]

I remember the sparkle in Edward's eyes when I gave him my 1903Springfield rifle to hold for a picture when he was a year old!

I somehow think that got him interested in firearms but I don't remember how he ever got interested in the AR, because I was never a fan.

.....yeah,I remember long before there was an AR15.com!

Posted: 4/18/2002 5:17:50 AM EDT

[#20]

I came on about late 99 or early 2000, gotta see what shows up to the left though. Not much of a poster but I lurk regularly.
I remember Corey, I seem to remember personalities more than names, but Julius just came to mind...anyone know what happened to him?

jneal

Posted: 4/18/2002 5:25:47 AM EDT

[#21]

You guys taught me everything I know...sniff.

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:43:34 AM EDT

[#22]

Found this place back in 98? Maybe more 99ish. Lived through the Y2K (helped with the disinformation actually hehehe predicted the end of the world, oh well).

I miss Zen and his missle abode. I wish he would come back.

Fluffy was fun to a point.

Remember McUzi, when he wasn't that irratating.

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:49:05 AM EDT

[#23]

Yup, don't remember the post count on the old board, probably 3 or 4 hundred.

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:51:35 AM EDT

[#24]

Not that old, but old enough to remember the GD being much more wild & wooly.

Personally I thought you all were nuts, but good info.

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:52:45 AM EDT

[#25]

I got on the old board LATE in 2000 under a different username. Then finally found the new board after thinking it was gone forever. Was still mostly on HK91.com riding Todds ass at the time.

Remember the time Goat made AR15.com BRIGHT WHITE and frickin blinded us for a week?

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:56:27 AM EDT

[#26]

I remember having a decent screenname (Lawdog) on the old board; I remember CurioBob's name, and getting in a minor pissing match with Troy about what happens when a bullet isn't sufficiently spin stabilized...everybody was stocking up for Y2K. Board would go down a couple times a day, it seemed.

Posted: 4/18/2002 9:40:19 AM EDT

[#27]

What ever happened to "Shakey Jim"?

Posted: 4/18/2002 10:32:06 AM EDT

[#28]

i lurked for a while then finally decided to join

started lurking in late 2k

Posted: 4/18/2002 12:02:01 PM EDT

[#29]

[size=6][red]FREE McUZI![/red][/size=6]

Posted: 4/18/2002 12:07:12 PM EDT

[#30]

I joined the old board right about the time the Drew/Glockcop thing started.

Posted: 4/18/2002 12:11:50 PM EDT

[#31]

I joined in late 99 or early 2000. After the mailing list anyway. Zen was posting,Kuiper was a mod in GD,Drew and GlockCop where at it. BTW..GlockCop is alive,doing very well with his much better and gorgeous half (are you reading this GC?[;)])and living in Canada. I hope to have the pleasure of meeting him this summer. If it happens I'll try and post a pic.
This place has grown in leaps and bounds since then..and I'm still stuck with that worn out, beat to a pulp, wreck of a Yugo!!!

Posted: 4/18/2002 12:57:02 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Or when the only mods in the GD were Anti, DonR and Diverdown....

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Youngster. I remember when there weren't any moderators, period.

Posted: 4/18/2002 5:02:20 PM EDT

[#33]

I found this place right when the Fluffy story was breaking..."My cat Fluffy died."

I read the responses and thought "damn, what a bunch of calloused mean hearted a$$*@%es. Then I started to see the humor.

I signed on in Dec. 2000 after I got a computer at home. About a week, or 6 posts, later the site crashed. I found the beta sight and signed onto it in Jan. '01.

Y2K, Zen/Curio Bob, Drew/Glockcop were some fun times.

Posted: 4/18/2002 5:03:36 PM EDT

[#34]

I dug the message below out of my mail archive:

From: AR15-L-DIGEST [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 6:01 PM

Welcome to the AR-15-L list!

This list is run by AR15.com for the purpose of discussing
the AR-15 line of rifles. All material posted to the list remains
copyrighted by the original author, and AR15.com assumes no
responsibility for the content of posts to the list.

Posted: 4/18/2002 5:06:08 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Or when the only mods in the GD were Anti, DonR and Diverdown....

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Youngster. I remember when there weren't any moderators, period.

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hah! hah! hah! Thanks Boomer!

Posted: 4/18/2002 6:54:43 PM EDT

[#36]

I remember the old board (2000) but that's as far back as I go. I work construction and found this board one winter when work was slow. I'd head to the library and surf the web for awhile to kill time.

The old board was....

Well it was fun. Can't say that the board isn't better nowadays though. It has come a long way.

BTW, this board is one of the biggest reasons I finally got internet access.

Not that I was cheap, just couldn't see the need for it.

Posted: 4/18/2002 7:37:32 PM EDT

[#37]

Damn you people...

You remember Fluffy.

You remember ZEN and his sheep.

You remember McUzi, Glockcop, Drew, Ed Avila when he was actually around...

You may even remember that the first time SteyrAUG(damn, he wasn't even SteyrAUG back then) posted nudity, it caused the old boards forum software to crash.

Damn it, does no one remember me? I saved your collective shoppers asses dozens of time, and get zero recognition.

*snff*

You will all be sorry! ALL of you!

Gecko45

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:03:29 PM EDT

[#38]

Was on the old board since day one and the old mailing list for a couple of years before that.

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:31:38 PM EDT

[#39]

Mid-98 I think.

PS: TOP is still a fother mucker!

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:35:23 PM EDT

[#40]

Joined the mailing list and old board in early 98. Browsed for quite a while, read, asked questions, researched, then made my first AR purchase in mid-99.

Even remember the old board had a newbie AR file that suggested building up your first ar--just buy the lower, then assemble the rest with a kit.

Glad I bought a complete Barney AR first, though now I think it's finally time to build my own.

Posted: 4/18/2002 8:43:28 PM EDT

[#41]

I really dont remember, I am thinking late '98. this board has been so helpful!

Posted: 4/18/2002 9:26:42 PM EDT

[#42]

On or about late 96-early 97?
What ever happened to Rambo and Paz?
Borg

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