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First posters 21:46 - Nov 16 with 9563 views

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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First posters on 06:47 - Nov 18 with 1502 views

LegendofthePhoenix

I never thought TWTD would become such a life staple so didn't really make any record of when I started posting, but am impressed that so may of you did. I know I was posting in 2002 because of where I lived at the time, and initially used Reading Blue, but someone else also used an almost identical username, so I then changed it to RB_ITFC, then changed it to Brogansconk - and within a month or two someone else created a username of Brogansnose, so that had to be changed as well. In the end, around 2014, I changed it to LegendofthePhoenix as no other silly sod would choose that as a username, and it was what I use in gaming - its the opening line of "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk, and that kinda seems appropriate.

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would you rather

First posters on 12:01 - Nov 18 with 1380 views

Tractor_Buck

1999, when I changed jobs and had access to the Internet at work for the first time. Initially as Shropshire Blue, then just Shropshire, then Tractor Buck when I got involved with AFC Telford in 2005.

Ahhh, 1999.. when Facters was Ixy and I used to meet Wilnecote (bluelagos) and Dalliance at away games.

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First posters on 12:06 - Nov 18 with 1379 views

PhilTWTD

First posters on 06:47 - Nov 18 by LegendofthePhoenix

Neither did I!

First posters on 12:11 - Nov 18 with 1362 views

bluelagos

First posters on 12:01 - Nov 18 by Tractor_Buck
1999, when I changed jobs and had access to the Internet at work for the first time. Initially as Shropshire Blue, then just Shropshire, then Tractor Buck when I got involved with AFC Telford in 2005. Ahhh, 1999.. when Facters was Ixy and I used to meet Wilnecote (bluelagos) and Dalliance at away games. [Post edited 18 Nov 2024 12:02]

Are you Tim? Still go?

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This new lockdown poll - what you reckon?

First posters on 12:29 - Nov 18 with 1342 views

Tractor_Buck

First posters on 12:11 - Nov 18 by bluelagos
Are you Tim? Still go?

Nah, I'm Phil - Timm lives just down the road from me and I still speak to him and Mick Diver on a occasional basis. I haven't been going regularly for a while, a couple of times a season if I'm lucky. Next up is Wolves but I'll be in the prawn sandwich section for that one.

I've been here since day one..... on 12:31 - Nov 18 with 1332 views

buoyant

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.

Apart from when you had a massive flunce, left and joined another forum ya mean ;)

UTT

First posters on 12:32 - Nov 18 with 1332 views

Kieran_Knows

Started out as ChoprasRightFoot I think, so probably started posting between the years he was here, 2011-2013.

On to Mick_Knows, then Paul_Knows (torrid name with those 3 we had in charge) and now Kieran_Knows.

I always remember at the time I was Mick_Knows that someone else used to post under Micknosehowtodoit. Wonder if they're still on this forum under a different name?

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We’ve got super KM, he knows exactly what we need. Woolfie at the back…

First posters on 12:57 - Nov 18 with 1294 views

stonojnr

First posters on 23:58 - Nov 16 by Bluespeed225
I think I came along in 98', we got the internet at work! Who had it at home then? Was it even available? Dial up, slowed when California woke up!

Yes the Internet existed for home users, isps were subscription based from the early 90s, then Freeserve launched in 98, and you just paid the phone call costs and it created the mass home Internet market.

And your dial up wouldn't have slowed down when California woke up, you were simply hitting the bandwidth limits of the technology at the time

First posters on 12:59 - Nov 18 with 1294 views

stonojnr

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.

Don't forget you had the mailing list before that, which was like a pseudo forum

First posters on 13:02 - Nov 18 with 1295 views

PhilTWTD

First posters on 12:59 - Nov 18 by stonojnr
Don't forget you had the mailing list before that, which was like a pseudo forum

Did we have a mailing list? I remember being on a mailing list, which I think may still exist, but I don't recall running one.

First posters on 13:07 - Nov 18 with 1271 views

J2BLUE

First posters on 12:32 - Nov 18 by Kieran_Knows
Started out as ChoprasRightFoot I think, so probably started posting between the years he was here, 2011-2013. On to Mick_Knows, then Paul_Knows (torrid name with those 3 we had in charge) and now Kieran_Knows. I always remember at the time I was Mick_Knows that someone else used to post under Micknosehowtodoit. Wonder if they're still on this forum under a different name?

Fairly sure Micknosehowtodoit = Frimmers

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First posters on 13:25 - Nov 18 with 1241 views

NorthLondonBlue2

I think that it orginally began as an email mass mailing in maybe 1996? I definitely remember receiving those emails at work, the only place which had internet.

It's bascially been a staple of my football life ever since. It's always good to get an independent perspective, while the matchday chatroom is indispensible for those days when nothing else works.

First posters on 13:42 - Nov 18 with 1217 views

greeneking24

I was BassaBlue way back when. Always been more of a voyuer than a poster though.

First posters on 13:46 - Nov 18 with 1185 views

bluester

Pretty sure I started visiting TWTD around 1999 posting as westminsterblue. Stopped posting regularly years ago though.

First posters on 15:00 - Nov 18 with 1109 views

SaleAway

I remember visiting the board in 1999 when I worked at BT in Martlesham, and was introduced to ITFC by a couple of guys that I met there... probably started posting in 2000 as StockleyParkBlue.... little did I know then how that user name would have stood the test of time.... I've been SaleAway since I moved into my current house in 2009. Can't remember what I was between those two....

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First posters on 15:19 - Nov 18 with 1065 views

ITFC_Forever

The e-mail list wasn't run by TWTD, but effectively was a message board.

I was on that from around 1996 to 2000 until the volume of e-mail traffic became unmanageable.

I started posting on here in around 2005, and have always had the same username.

The original founder of the paper fanzine incarnation of TWTD used to post on here regularly, but left a fair while ago.
I used to sell the paper fanzine outside the ground on match day.

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First posters on 15:26 - Nov 18 with 1041 views

DanTheMan

Think I first started properly posting on here in 2006 but had brief forays as a teenager from 2003 onwards.

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First posters on 15:35 - Nov 18 with 1003 views

shady

Became semi computer literate in'97
and did a lot of lurking
(still do)

only posted to find out if anyone new a radio source
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really don't know what I've called myself::
oceanic?

First posters on 16:09 - Nov 18 with 965 views

Churchman

First posters on 15:19 - Nov 18 by ITFC_Forever

I used to buy the fanzine outside the ground. You probably sold one or two of them to me.

Where’s my ffing change???

First posters on 16:55 - Nov 18 with 938 views

soupytwist

Before TWTD there was the message board run by someone called Mark E Owen. Presumably they included the initial to avoid being mistaken for the diminutive member of Take That.

First posters on 17:21 - Nov 18 with 908 views

vapour_trail

First posters on 15:26 - Nov 18 by DanTheMan
Think I first started properly posting on here in 2006 but had brief forays as a teenager from 2003 onwards.

Fcking hell Dan, I thought you were about my age.

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First posters on 18:51 - Nov 18 with 828 views

DanTheMan

First posters on 17:21 - Nov 18 by vapour_trail
Fcking hell Dan, I thought you were about my age.

I'm just wise for my years, obviously!

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First posters on 19:04 - Nov 18 with 818 views

BluJu

First posters on 12:00 - Nov 17 by Ryorry
Around ’97-98? when it first started I think. Was originally Ryor (R from Yorkshire) but then the hamsters decided they wanted a minimum 6-character username

Yeah I was gutted when they did that! I used to be called BluJu.

I was on it in the late 80s when it was a photocopy of a hand-typed newsletter, often with poorly masked Tipex.

First posters on 19:11 - Nov 18 with 819 views

blueasfook

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.

When was the "Rivals" era? I remember posting pre-rivals but then the board moved to the Rivals platform for a few years. They were great days for board invasions. Poor Canary Corner had more town fans than Norwich fans on it. But their main board was always WOTB.

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First posters on 19:16 - Nov 18 with 806 views

norfsufblue

I know I was on here for definite when we signed Marcus Stewart.... hadn't been so excited about a transfer since Paul Mariner!..... spent the whole evening clicking away on my huge Tiny PC.... TWTDs

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