First posters 21:46 - Nov 16 with 9949 views | LeoMuff | Anyone know when TWTD first appeared online ? I’m sure I remember checking it out sometime around 1997 or am I misremembering? Pretty sure I was regularly online there by 1999, are any posters still using their user name from the first ever sign up ? I’m sure Phil or Gav can fill in the gaps ? |  |
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Always wondered…. on 12:16 - Nov 17 with 1365 views | Ryorry |
Always wondered…. on 12:03 - Nov 17 by Bloots | ….where your username came from Ryorry. Assumed it was some sort of obscure Nordic/Jorvik reference. Disappointingly mundane really. I reckon the “R” is for Rosemary. Or Rita. |
Thanks. I like “mundane” - root in ‘of the world’; ‘ordinary’ and anonymous suits me fine |  |
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First posters on 12:21 - Nov 17 with 1332 views | Cheltenham_Blue | Think I was 99, maybe 2000. Always with the same username. |  |
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Always wondered…. on 12:23 - Nov 17 with 1321 views | Ryorry |
Always wondered…. on 12:06 - Nov 17 by leitrimblue | I now like to think it's Roxanne from Yorkshire. Bit a glamour [Post edited 17 Nov 2024 12:06]
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It’s actually Revered Retired Revolutionary, but I shortened it for ease of login. |  |
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Too right Rose…. on 12:26 - Nov 17 with 1308 views | Bloots |
Always wondered…. on 12:16 - Nov 17 by Ryorry | Thanks. I like “mundane” - root in ‘of the world’; ‘ordinary’ and anonymous suits me fine |
….anonymity is absolutely vital. Particularly with some of the nutbags on here! |  |
| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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First posters on 12:40 - Nov 17 with 1296 views | PhilTWTD | Website first appeared in a very basic form in 1995, Gav got involved the next year and it really took off from there with the Forum and then the news side of things following that. |  | |  |
First posters on 12:47 - Nov 17 with 1264 views | Freddies_Ears | I didn't join until around 1998 or 1999, ish. This is my 3rd user name, I think - it just came to me one day, and I thought it would be a shame to waste it! |  | |  |
I've been here since day one..... on 12:49 - Nov 17 with 1260 views | Swansea_Blue |
I've been here since day one..... on 22:26 - Nov 16 by Bloots | ....probably. I was originally Toilet_bloo, then Blueasfook. After that I was Footers and briefly I was GavTWTD. Now I'm Professor Dr Bloots MBE. |
Is MBE ‘Massive Bleedin Eejit’? Asking for an Irish friend |  |
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First posters on 12:51 - Nov 17 with 1253 views | Swansea_Blue | I started looking in ‘97 because I remember starting a new job and having loads of time in my hands, as the boss was useless. I’m not sure if I posted then. Probably did, but couldn’t say what my user name was. I won’t have been Swanners until at least 2005/6 season. |  |
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Yes, yes it is. (n/t) on 12:51 - Nov 17 with 1252 views | Bloots |
I've been here since day one..... on 12:49 - Nov 17 by Swansea_Blue | Is MBE ‘Massive Bleedin Eejit’? Asking for an Irish friend |
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| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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Too right Rose…. on 13:05 - Nov 17 with 1221 views | PhilTWTD |
Too right Rose…. on 12:26 - Nov 17 by Bloots | ….anonymity is absolutely vital. Particularly with some of the nutbags on here! |
You mean you're not Barry Loots? |  | |  |
Too right Rose…. on 13:08 - Nov 17 with 1213 views | leitrimblue |
Too right Rose…. on 13:05 - Nov 17 by PhilTWTD | You mean you're not Barry Loots? |
Brian from Luton surely? |  | |  |
First posters on 13:57 - Nov 17 with 1174 views | Steve_M | In some form or other back to the 95-96 season which was my first year at uni for me. Back then to see comments on matches meant making a walk to the library to access a computer, less immediacy possibly added more depth. |  |
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First posters on 14:10 - Nov 17 with 1145 views | vilanovablue | Been here since 97 initially as Reigate Blue, before moving to Spain in 2001 which is where my current user name dates too |  | |  |
Too right Rose…. on 14:35 - Nov 17 with 1114 views | Ryorry |
Too right Rose…. on 12:26 - Nov 17 by Bloots | ….anonymity is absolutely vital. Particularly with some of the nutbags on here! |
Being a nutbag is a prerequisite of forum membership Shirley! |  |
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First posters on 14:35 - Nov 17 with 1112 views | blueislander |
First posters on 14:10 - Nov 17 by vilanovablue | Been here since 97 initially as Reigate Blue, before moving to Spain in 2001 which is where my current user name dates too |
I was Bryan’s Brother in the Rivals’days, but changed to current one thereafter. |  | |  |
First posters on 14:46 - Nov 17 with 1106 views | Leaky | I was formally Huntingdon Blue Changed it when my prostate got old [Post edited 17 Nov 2024 14:54]
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First posters on 18:34 - Nov 17 with 1020 views | bluelagos |
First posters on 12:40 - Nov 17 by PhilTWTD | Website first appeared in a very basic form in 1995, Gav got involved the next year and it really took off from there with the Forum and then the news side of things following that. |
So 92 to 96 I worked for my first proper employer and a couple of years in they put 2 interweb connected computers in the staff canteen and we were allowed to surf in our lunch hour. So I reckon I was defo posting (as WilnecoteBlue) in your first year, before many on here were even born. All deference should be shown by all these upstarts |  |
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First posters on 19:03 - Nov 17 with 997 views | stickymockwell |
First posters on 18:34 - Nov 17 by bluelagos | So 92 to 96 I worked for my first proper employer and a couple of years in they put 2 interweb connected computers in the staff canteen and we were allowed to surf in our lunch hour. So I reckon I was defo posting (as WilnecoteBlue) in your first year, before many on here were even born. All deference should be shown by all these upstarts |
I was Harbey_and_Rimmer to begin with. I got in a strop with Ixworth Blue (I think that might have been Facters) and flounced off, than came back as Sticky. I think I started around 00/01 |  |
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First posters on 19:11 - Nov 17 with 982 views | vapour_trail |
First posters on 19:03 - Nov 17 by stickymockwell | I was Harbey_and_Rimmer to begin with. I got in a strop with Ixworth Blue (I think that might have been Facters) and flounced off, than came back as Sticky. I think I started around 00/01 |
I think you still win finest user name on this site over the years. I first stumbled across this place in the late 90s . Started as tootingtractorboy. Been Vt since very shortly after that. |  |
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First posters on 19:31 - Nov 17 with 958 views | soupytwist |
First posters on 22:13 - Nov 16 by BlueBadger | I've been around since '97, albeit under the user name 'Rectory Lane Blue' and then 'RL Blue'. |
I was posting around that time too, under the name RL Matt because I lived in Rectory Lane, in Chelmsford. |  | |  |
First posters on 19:37 - Nov 17 with 940 views | Swansea_Blue | I’m assuming Gav has a copy of all of our posts right back to the start and spends his time marvelling at how awesome they are. He can probably tell me what my earliest user name(s) were. It must all be tied to email addresses. |  |
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First posters on 19:43 - Nov 17 with 922 views | Keno |
First posters on 12:40 - Nov 17 by PhilTWTD | Website first appeared in a very basic form in 1995, Gav got involved the next year and it really took off from there with the Forum and then the news side of things following that. |
So what you are saying is it’s all Gavs fault? |  |
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First posters on 21:43 - Nov 17 with 840 views | Pinewoodblue | Been Pinewoodblue for 26 + years, forget my original username but it was around 96/7 accessed via dial up. TWTD….not. |  |
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First posters on 22:35 - Nov 17 with 814 views | usm | Was originally usmblue, now just USM. Date back to 1998/99 I reckon. |  |
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First posters on 06:26 - Nov 18 with 737 views | MJallday |
First posters on 12:40 - Nov 17 by PhilTWTD | Website first appeared in a very basic form in 1995, Gav got involved the next year and it really took off from there with the Forum and then the news side of things following that. |
I think I was one of the original members Is there any way of telling who was around / oldest logins? There was a yahoo supporters board between 92-94 but then I think people came over here |  |
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