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I also hail from the old UP board, which I saw mentioned in a Usenet posting. Probably alt.binaries.startrek - I wasn't especially interested in Trek online, just looking for starship pictures.
quote:Originally posted by TSN: I didn't "find" Flare. I've been around since the original UP board. Which I found via AltaVista.
Same here, but I think I found the webboard by chance after finding the main site. That was a long time ago!
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I don't remember exactly where I found Flare, I think I found a Flare-link on some Trek CGI-modeler's linkpage (Martin Hajek, Mateen Greenway or someone like that) and here I found some pre-tty interesting discussions about DS9 and Voyager eps and events.
I lurked for about six months, then felt I really wanted to contribute and so I registered.
What caught my attention first was the levelheadedness of the threads and the posters. This wasn't just any gathering of adolescent dreamers whose main vocabulary was "kewl", "that's so gay" and "Fu** you too, my modified Defiant beats your buphed-up Intrepid class mod!".
Had it been, I wouldn't have stayed. So there you go.
I've really enjoyed my stay here, there practically haven't been any "bad times", I've felt support from people in different ways and I have tried to give it back as much I could.
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I met Simon in a Yahoo! Star Trek chatroom, and he introduced me to this place. I've been around on and off since the first UBB version, shortly before the CapComs started, actually.
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I found it through the 'You're the Admiral' sections on MinutiaeMan's site, a little over a year ago.
quote: What caught my attention first was the levelheadedness of the threads and the posters. This wasn't just any gathering of adolescent dreamers whose main vocabulary was "kewl", "that's so gay" and "Fu** you too, my modified Defiant beats your buphed-up Intrepid class mod!".
Absolutely. Also most of the divertions are... amusing
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I found this place and Sci-Fi Art around the same time soon after getting the day job that I have now and, for the first time, having access to a phat, 24-7, free connection. SFA was my main hang out, mostly because I was posting some work and chatting about it, but I posted regularly here, too. After SFA fell apart, I never bothered to sign up at Gladiators for some reason.
I'm pretty sure I found the boards originally by searching at DogPile.com... I think I was looking for sci fi artwork... or star trek artwork... or something.
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I started at the UP forums after finding UP and Behaviour through AltaVista I believe (I think I just put 'Starship' into the search engine). That's where I first created the name of Matt359. After Behaviour, I had been away for a half year or so, and came back to find nothing there! I later found the group at the SFCR. Then the shit hit the fan and I ended up here.
Oh, and according to Omega's thread, I need to be interviewed or something...
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Matt (The359) introduced it to me I guess when it first became SolarFlare I don't remember the exact date. I remember the Ambassador style LCARS interface scheme being used. I tried to register but couldn't because of my Yahoo email account. About a month later I borrowed my mom's Eudora email to finally register making me #138!
::sigh:: If only I could have a double-digit number then I really would feel like an old-timer here.
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You can all blame Frank for my presence. I was developing the galaxy for my own hard sci-fi show, and I stumbled onto Frank's Distant Horizon. Then I became obsessed with Frank and would secretly celebrate his birthday without his knowing and printed up dozens of pictures of him (all pixelated at life size) and set them around my room and would talk to these about the technology on my show and the feasibility of interstellar travel. Eventually I learned that he came here, and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get to know him, and maybe meet some other people who might be interested in creating something new. Well that didn't happen, so now I mostly just hang around and make flippant passive aggressive comments and viciously attack anyone who breathes so much as a sour word about TWOK. I have since blacked out the eyes of my Frank cut-outs, but I haven't been able to bring myself to throw them away.
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You can blame my presence on the crackers/DDoSers who where responsible for crashing Omega Project's server, forcing it off the air repeatedly between late '99 - early '00.
Then, during a frantic quest to wet me' olde appetite for all things Trek, I snatched the URL to Flare from the now-defunct SWMA and decided to take up a permanent residence here.
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