| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year 21:03 - Nov 3 with 3155 views | vilanovablue |
Which is pretty mental really. It was September 97 when I started working in London. Seen a lot of weird stuff on here over the years. |  | | |  |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 21:10 - Nov 3 with 1769 views | Steve_M |
I’ve got another couple of years on that but, yes, definitely. |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 21:35 - Nov 3 with 1724 views | vilanovablue |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 21:10 - Nov 3 by Steve_M |
I’ve got another couple of years on that but, yes, definitely. |
Dial up, we've come along way as I send this from my telephone 😂😂😂 | | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:26 - Nov 3 with 1679 views | Keno |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 21:35 - Nov 3 by vilanovablue |
Dial up, we've come along way as I send this from my telephone 😂😂😂 |
Try explaining dial up to your kids!!
Technology is such that I can dump crap on here while dumping crap |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:35 - Nov 3 with 1671 views | bluefunk |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:26 - Nov 3 by Keno |
Try explaining dial up to your kids!!
Technology is such that I can dump crap on here while dumping crap |
Pages taking a couple of minutes to load, but on the other hand trolls weren’t a thing |  | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:42 - Nov 3 with 1649 views | footers |
I'm very sorry to hear that.
Best wishes in your (eventual) recovery. |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:54 - Nov 3 with 1634 views | vilanovablue |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:26 - Nov 3 by Keno |
Try explaining dial up to your kids!!
Technology is such that I can dump crap on here while dumping crap |
When they are moaning about how awful the WiFi is! | | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 23:08 - Nov 3 with 1613 views | BlueBadger |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:35 - Nov 3 by bluefunk |
Pages taking a couple of minutes to load, but on the other hand trolls weren’t a thing |
Mate, Newmarket Blue and Pundit were at their peak late 90's to mid noughties, if we're talking trolls... [Post edited 4 Nov 2021 8:25]
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 23:14 - Nov 3 with 1595 views | XYZ |
Siri - insert traditional TWTD Hotel California joke. |  | | |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 01:15 - Nov 4 with 1522 views | ParisBlue |
I remember I was working in Amsterdam and changed my flight home to go to Southampton as we were playing Portsmouth that night. Must have been April 1997.
This board named a pre-match pub. I can't recall the name of it, but there were 2 pubs of the same name and the one we went to was rough as. |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 02:26 - Nov 4 with 1494 views | wkj |
Im 10 years on the forums, but for many years before that was on the comment section. TWTD was as much a part of the ITFC life for me as the club was. |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 03:36 - Nov 4 with 1483 views | Ryorry |
ITFC club site, then this place, were the first two sites I ever saw - 1997 iirc - when a couple of friends visited & set up the internet for me on an Amstrad (? I think) desktop I'd bought. You should have seen the look on my face when the image of PR, complete with Pioneer Stand, came up in glorious technicolour - couldn't believe it, completely awestruck!
Dial up - pah - did-did-do-de-dud-dud-did - often only to get the engaged signal - keeping trying for 30+ mins, then when you did get one it'd often drop out again after 2 mins. I seem to remember speeds of 28Kb/sec!! not to mention some huge phone bills. |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 04:57 - Nov 4 with 1464 views | IPS_wich |
I was thinking that the other day - I started in September 96 - at Uni when I was doing my post grad and we had 90 minutes access a day to the computers that were connected to the internet (as opposed to most computers that were just on the uni intranet). I probably spent 60-70 of my daily minutes on TWTD rather than doing research!!
I've had five usernames in the time: LancasterBlue; EalingBlue, BasingstokeBlue, FleetBlue and then my current one (when I moved back to Kesgrave in 2005 for a year there was already a KesgraveBlue).
Things I remember most from back in the day:
- When Ullaa joined and just got pelted for weeks because he was a budgie - but I'm so glad he stuck with the Board - made me realise that there is always an exception to every rule and that it is possible to be a good guy and support Norwich.
- The Rivals board and the fiasco of moving to a new host.
- Following the Ipswich vs Bolton second leg through the forum because I was working up in Yorkshire and couldn't get back to Suffolk - hitting F5 in hope we could equalise and not really believing it when 'MAGILTON!!!!!!' suddenly popped up.
- The Ian Harte / Marcus Stewart sending off incident and our genuine belief that we could somehow organise a protest that would make a difference (how naive).
And bizarrely, having started my first job back in 1998 there was this thread about Capybaras (a large South American rodent) with a load of photoshopped pictures of said rodents - leading me to trying to explain to my new colleagues why I was crying with laughter at something on a football forum (I can still picture the 'Commando Capybara' today) | | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 06:27 - Nov 4 with 1435 views | stickymockwell |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 23:08 - Nov 3 by BlueBadger |
Mate, Newmarket Blue and Pundit were at their peak late 90's to mid noughties, if we're talking trolls... [Post edited 4 Nov 2021 8:25]
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And not forgetting our budgie trolls Crafty Canary and Ricky Bilverstone! They were tosspots. |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 07:27 - Nov 4 with 1377 views | bluefunk |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 23:08 - Nov 3 by BlueBadger |
Mate, Newmarket Blue and Pundit were at their peak late 90's to mid noughties, if we're talking trolls... [Post edited 4 Nov 2021 8:25]
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Ah Newmie, whatever happened to him, what’s his username now I wonder, and I think Pundit has had several since [Post edited 4 Nov 2021 7:28]
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 07:42 - Nov 4 with 1354 views | blueysbackside |
Nice one! And what a belter of a site it was back then. Not like now unfortunately | | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 08:31 - Nov 4 with 1319 views | BlueBadger |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 07:27 - Nov 4 by bluefunk |
Ah Newmie, whatever happened to him, what’s his username now I wonder, and I think Pundit has had several since [Post edited 4 Nov 2021 7:28]
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Pundit is currently residing under the username of Elephantintheroom.
Probably. | |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:27 - Nov 4 with 1248 views | Swansea_Blue |
I think I was '97 too. It's when I started out in the real world and realised it was more fun being on a football forum than dealing with clients. Can't remember my original user name though. |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:36 - Nov 4 with 1243 views | bluefunk |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 08:31 - Nov 4 by BlueBadger |
Pundit is currently residing under the username of Elephantintheroom.
Probably. |
I don’t want to name him, but (allegedly) the posting style and opinions show a remarkable similarity
Edited for spelling [Post edited 4 Nov 2021 9:37]
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:39 - Nov 4 with 1241 views | PhilTWTD |
Congratulations on your TWTD anniversary. Your silver membership certificate should be with you soon. |  | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:45 - Nov 4 with 1224 views | nodge_blue |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:39 - Nov 4 by PhilTWTD |
Congratulations on your TWTD anniversary. Your silver membership certificate should be with you soon. |
What about for people who've had an old username / account. I hope you are going to seamlessly patch those altogether Phil and get their certificates out too !! |  |
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| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:47 - Nov 4 with 1196 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 22:35 - Nov 3 by bluefunk |
Pages taking a couple of minutes to load, but on the other hand trolls weren’t a thing |
Eh?
"I'm Squatting Neville and I like to squat!
OTBC"
Posted day after day after day... | | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:47 - Nov 4 with 1196 views | XYZ |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:39 - Nov 4 by PhilTWTD |
Congratulations on your TWTD anniversary. Your silver membership certificate should be with you soon. |
Printed on the front wing of a second-hand Audi. | | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:56 - Nov 4 with 1176 views | bluefunk |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:47 - Nov 4 by ArnoldMoorhen |
Eh?
"I'm Squatting Neville and I like to squat!
OTBC"
Posted day after day after day... |
Yeah, fair point, I went all nostalgic for a minute and forgot reality, which has been a good place to be as a Town fan for a good part of the TWTD era | | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 10:12 - Nov 4 with 1138 views | WD19 |
Same. Terrifying really..... |  | | |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 10:15 - Nov 4 with 1122 views | Steve_M |
| Just realised I've now been posting on this site for 25 year on 09:56 - Nov 4 by bluefunk |
Yeah, fair point, I went all nostalgic for a minute and forgot reality, which has been a good place to be as a Town fan for a good part of the TWTD era |
Had you said there were fewer fkwits back in the day then that might have been a fairer point. I suppose that's why we have news comments now. | |
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