The Simtropolis Annuarians Club

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

OMG, I totally forgot this, I am now a Tri-annuarian!!!

[Glenni 1,447]

Wow, i've nearly been here for 3 years now!

[simzebu 20]

In 2 months and a week I'll have been here for 3 years!

[patfirefghtr 160]

all most 2 years for me woohoo!!!

[guinea 31]

This is my fourth year here now

four years!, 

thats a little crazy

seems so long ago since i joined

[threeswept 12]

Darn...I missed my 4 year anniversary date by two days...AGAIN!

[masochist 111]

Well...on Wednesday, it'll be my bi-annuary. Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to post on Wednesday, because I'll be traveling most of the day...so I thought I'd post it here.

2 years as a member of the SC4 community...it went by so fast!

<Edit> Take it back...it's early morning on the 19th where I am.  I'm two years old !!!

[McDuell 301]

Today is my 4 year anniversary, yay !

Hmm, I wrote a whopping 13 posts during the last 4 years which probably makes me one of the laziest posters here.

Anyways, thank you all for this wonderful site. Even if I didn't write much, I sure loved to read many many topics here on Simtropolis.

[crazyyaya 4]

My 1 year Anniversery!

I almost missed it too.

[mightygoose 92]

ive been here 2 years.... well 4 if you count the guest lurking lol.....

[SkyTearer 10]

I've been here 4 and a half years, man i'm getting old, lol

[amal81 3]

Quadra annuarian...don't know whether that's actually a word or not.

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Next month I'll be a bi-annuarian

It hardly feels like 2 years!

[SkyTearer 10]

Quadra annuarian, lol that's grand, possible a Quadannurian

Anyone know who's been here the longest, and when did the site start up was it 2003 or late 02?

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: SkyTearer Quadra annuarian, lol that's grand, possible a Quadannurian

Anyone know who's been here the longest, and when did the site start up was it 2003 or late 02?quote>

The site as we now know it was launched January 11, 2003- the same day SC4 was released. There was, however, a sort of proto-site before that which was just a forum that went back to October of 2002.

As for who's been here the longest, the answer to that one is obvious: dirk. He started the whole thing, after all. There aren't too many people who are still around that were around back in those days, though- rybolton would pretty much be the only one. The other really-old timers like Screwball and golfbunny don't show up anymore.

Hell, even people who joined in 2003 that are still around make up a rather exclusive club. Most of the contemporary active membership is newer blood. Just look through the posts in any recent thread and look at people's join dates- 2006 and 2007 will be the most common with a few 2008s thrown in. Then you'll have a fair number of 2005s, some 2004s, and a select few 2003s. Now, the site isn't really all that much more active than it used to be- those new people coming in are largely replacing others who leave, not supplementing them.

Time goes by fast on the internet. Most people don't actively hang around at a site for more than a year or two at a time (if they ever actively hang around at all)- they move on to other things. People who actively hang around at a site for more than a few years therefore become like those few old historic buildings in a largely newer town. Bear in mind that the World Wide Web did not exist prior to 1991- the world of the internet is only 17 years old. Human civilization has been around for over 4000 years- so someone who's been at a site since 2003 is roughly equivalent to a piece of real world history dating back to the dark ages. Hell, a large number of the sites that are around today didn't even exist in 2003.

[mightygoose 92]

as an interesting side note youtube was founded in 2005

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: mightygoose as an interesting side note youtube was founded in 2005quote>

Okay, list of prominent sites that are younger than Simtropolis, go!:

-Answers.com

-CollegeHumor

-Facebook

-Flickr

-ImageShack

-MySpace

-Photobucket

-YouTube

-submissions are welcome.

[mightygoose 92]

myspace.com

answers.com

Blogger.com (became free)

Piratebay.com

limewire

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: mightygoose Blogger.comquote>

2000, so no

Piratebay.comquote>

Never heard of it, so it must not be that prominent

limewirequote>

Is not a site, but rather a filesharing program.

Answers.com

myspace.comquote>

Okay, those are valid. 2005 and August 2003. Adding....

[hym 358]

Flickr was founded in 2004.

[huskerman007 26]

Wow Ive almost been a member here for 5 years it doesnt seem like its been that long.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: huskerman007 Wow Ive almost been a member here for 5 years it doesnt seem like its been that long.quote>

Fun how that works, isn't it? The saying "I remember it like it was yesterday" exists for a reason.

[sim1234 62]

Wow, I'm now a tri-annuarian. It doesn't feel like that long since I joined ST.

[SkyTearer 10]

It really doesn't feel like that long ago that I first joined simtropolis and I remember how excited I was when the first Maxis BATS started appearing, wow, how times have changed. I also thought SC5 when have been around ages ago. But then again, SC4 with all the bats and mods of today could very well be equivilent to a user-made SC5

[samantha 138]

Five years last month...time sure does fly!

[Godzillaman 21]

Yay...one year of simtropolis. WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[Darmok 34]

In less than a month, April 18, I'll be a 5 year old member....

I remember following the first forum before this site, Dirk surely made a success of Simtrop.

Time really flies when we're having fun!

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

It is coming... dun dun dun dun dun dun...

[patfirefghtr 160]

LoL Craig too funnie, I feel like watching the Honda big event duh sale commercial... 2yrs here and I missed my date to post on the 16th of March...

To ansewer your question about Limewire Duke its like Napster but free peer to peer file swapping... Founded in about 2000 far as I can tell

[Cleaner475 150]

It is coming... dun dun dun dun dun dun...quote>

Lol Craig, not long to go,

1 day to go here

Richard