Bordy! We've missed you!
Wait, what? According to the post just above yours, Jason himself joined in July 2003. So I was only one year off. And there were only a couple people who joined before him but I'm not even sure how that was possible since it's his site. You're not one of them unless you've had a name change I don't know about. And what's this about Jazzfanz merging with realgm? I've never heard of that before.
Yes, I definitely remember the Puerto Rican invasion. So now I'm confused. I must be off in my chronology.
You created your account on May 19, 2011 (shows up below your name on a desktop computer).
The jazzfanz.com website and message board was created in 2004, I think. @Jason would know the date for sure. I became a mod in Jan 2005, and I think the board was less than a year old at the time (but I could be wrong.) The board was created after Jason and others got frustrated with the realgm board that many of us had been using prior to that. There was a substantial exodus from realgm to jazzfanz at that time. I think I myself registered for jazzfanz about 3 weeks after it was founded. (I waited for a few weeks to see if the posters I liked most were going to bail on realgm or not. They bailed.) I can't recall which people who are still here joined at that time, but speak up if you did! I think there are maybe 10 of us still around. Anyone who's been here since 2004 is truly old school.
As the last three posters have alluded to, there was a massive board crash in 2010. All data was lost. Everyone had to re-register for the site. So anyone who has a May 2010 or Jun 2010 join dates (again, visibly on the desktop site) was undoubtedly around prior to the Great Board Crash of 2010, and in my opinion also deserves to be called old school even if they aren't quite as old school as the 2003-2004 originals.
Senior moment? The memory goes first as you get old, colton.
Uh... take a look up in the top left. It says a Jazz community since 1999. In any case, JazzFanz was actually a website that had a forum. In that day, there was JazzFanz, JazzHoops, and RealGM. RealGM ended up expanding and JazzFanz was taken over by the RealGM umbrella, but briefly. I don’t recall when the split from RealGM happened, but that may be what you’re referring to. Also, there used to be a poster named Jon Colton, who I had always just assumed was you but realized at some point that it wasn’t, but just a coincidence.
Usenet? Jeez, how old are you?
Does anyone still use it for discussions, or is it just used for pirating these days?
I'm 48
. Was in my 20s when the internet became a thing.
We should include all this info on the site somewhere, maybe in a history section?1999 is when the domain was purchased. I built the original version as a school project in very late 1998. Jazzfanz existed since 1999 (banner) and did merge with realgm and then broke off. The rest seems to be documented in the thread more or less.
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