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Username: Detroitej72
Post Number: 541
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 2:52 am: |    |
On DY, who was the first poster? Who were the early pioneiers?
Let's give props to said persons for the website known as DY, and show them some love... |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2617
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 7:20 am: | |
Lowell, It's his site, I'm sure he posted the first message. |
Udmphikapbob
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Username: Udmphikapbob
Post Number: 351
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 9:19 am: | |
"longest poster"?
as a relative newb, yet someone with nearly three years here in the forum, allow me to be the first to say - paging Manrooter! |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 1591
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 9:57 am: | |
Gannon- if we are talking words per post. 
(He has been here many years also.) |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2618
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 10:03 am: | |
Manrooter won't be answering anytime soon. He has left this world. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9246
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:14 am: | |
Yeah, N, I was going to say Supergay has to find a phone booth to effect a costume change and take up the Manrooter mantle.
Thanks Pam, I defer to an entire army of folk who were here at least two to three years before I ever heard of the place.
Ndavies is one of 'em. Histeric, Fury13. Perhaps even Skulker.
I'm a newbie compared to these folk. I just can't stfu. |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 4154
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:26 am: | |
I have been around since at least '98, and I do remember Spot, Jelk, Velma, and a few others around that time as well.. |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4435
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:31 am: | |
I used to post under different name far before 9/11. Rasputin, Czar, Histeric....bunch of others I cannot think of. |
Bussey
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Username: Bussey
Post Number: 515
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:37 am: | |
Don't forget aiw |
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 247
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:43 am: | |
some of the older posters are banned..... |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1668
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:47 am: | |
...or just went out for ice cream |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 1593
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:47 am: | |
jjaba, Gistok and Kathleen go way back I believe. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 675
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:56 am: | |
How about Rustic? |
Mc5rules
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Username: Mc5rules
Post Number: 188
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 12:24 pm: | |
I'm in no way a pioneer -- it seems like the forum had been going for a year or so before I finally checked it out (though I loved the ruins site from early on). But I do remember the old board (before registration was required). I've always been somewhat of a lurker, but still pretty OG.
There are a lot of names from back then of folks who don't seem to be around anymore. Skipper, for one, and ISLD come to mind. Rasputin was there early, though he seems to be MIA these days. I remember when Rasputin and Sport fell in love with each other (only to break up later). I remember the one time I met some folks from the forum, I introduced myself by my actual name (which happens to be Brian). Brian was also the name of a particularly divisive forumer, and people thought I was HIM for a moment. That was fun.
This hasn't happened for a long time, but occasionally we'd be in Detroit and I'd run across somebody who was a poster here and we'd figure it out. My wife would get confused -- "How do you know that person?" -- and I'd have to cop to having internet friends.
Good times.... |
Buddyinrichmond
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Username: Buddyinrichmond
Post Number: 174
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 1:10 pm: | |
I hear some view the measuring stick by how long they have been gone. |
Stryker81
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Username: Stryker81
Post Number: 38
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 1:25 pm: | |
What about Livedog2? That was a good thread going on about early Polish Detroit. |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 4155
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 1:40 pm: | |
Yeah rustic was one I believe... |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 1594
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 1:47 pm: | |
quote:What about Livedog2?
No, he joined after I did so a relative newbie. |
Stryker81
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Username: Stryker81
Post Number: 40
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 1:53 pm: | |
quote:
What about Livedog2?
No, he joined after I did so a relative newbie.
I know. I just wondered what happened to him. Poor wording on my part. Sorry about the threadjack. Carry on! |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4439
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 3:22 pm: | |
Meyers was another....and Dove. |
Atl_runner
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Username: Atl_runner
Post Number: 1962
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 3:28 pm: | |
Union John.. this should be a whatever happened to thread instead. I've been around since 2001 or so.. Just not active anymore. Too busy these days. |
Tielerh11
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Username: Tielerh11
Post Number: 64
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 3:33 pm: | |
I've been around since January 2002, but I rarely post... mostly just lurk. Some of these names are bringing back old memories. Rasputin? lol how could anyone forget him.
Memories-atcha
-Tielerh11 |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1498
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 3:44 pm: | |
I wonder what happened to that Myers guy... |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4441
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 3:56 pm: | |
I printed out a copy of the "Grosse Pointe Ghetto" thread Lowell started over 5 years ago. We have Fury13, Townie, Julie, myself, Caddy who might also be Dream. |
Quinn
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Username: Quinn
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 4:27 pm: | |
Is there a way to fine the first ever thread?
I've only been here a few years and go for days without posting. |
Rustic
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Username: Rustic
Post Number: 3114
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 10:20 pm: | |
I am relatively long in the tooth on this forum. I once used the wayback website to search old forum pages for my first post (It is harder than it should be as that site doesn't handle archived frames very well). The earliest post I could find where I used the nom de forum "Rustic" was a thread where I believe Lowell, jjaba, histeric, detroitstylin and hamtramacksteve took part. I don't think that was my first post as Rustic tho. I had posted irregularly prior to that using various names before that but I'm pretty sure those guys all posted before me on this forum. There are others too. |
Catman_dude
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Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 145
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 10:28 pm: | |
I guess Lowell needs to start a Ruins of Pre-DetroitYes Forum forum. |
Wfw
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Username: Wfw
Post Number: 224
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 11:22 am: | |
I've been posting since 2000, but I'm more of a lurker these days. |
Defendbrooklyn
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Username: Defendbrooklyn
Post Number: 184
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 12:13 pm: | |
How can you get booted from the site? |
Fury13
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Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1710
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 2:12 pm: | |
I go back to '98 or '99, but there are at least four or five posters still active here that pre-date me. |
Smogboy
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Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 5257
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 2:30 pm: | |
Rumor has it that Lowell was posting here back in the day with smoke signals.
But seriously seeing as how this is technically his baby, I'd have to say he was the first one here. And we're all little followers. Thanks again Lowell. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1045
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 2:31 pm: | |
Livernoisyard seems to be the resident negative nancy. |
Steve
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Username: Steve
Post Number: 88
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 2:44 pm: | |
When I started lurking about five years ago, there was a poster called Townie who was wittier than average. Also, about two years ago, we had a thoughtful and articulate poster named English. |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1268
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 2:52 pm: | |
I'm surprised no one mentioned Lmichigan. |
Douglasm
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Username: Douglasm
Post Number: 835
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 3:28 pm: | |
The date on the left doesn't accurately show when someone originally registered, does it? |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2624
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 3:37 pm: | |
For dates after 10-2003 it is correct. Most of the old timers have the same date. 10-2003. Registration was not required in the early days. Even after registration was required, there was a server crash. The date of registration for the old timers was reset in october 2003.
I know I had been posting for years before that. |
Aiw
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Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6264
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 5:43 pm: | |
I think I first popped up around 1999. I posted as Andrew then. There was another poster who was active at the time, and went by Andy Avery. People would often get us confused, so my username switched to Andrew In Windsor. Being lazy as I am, I got sick of typing it, and it became simply AIW.
Back then I remeber jjaba, velma, gistok, ndavies, histeric and others. However it was a much different place. I also remember frequest postings by the brothers from St. Louis.
I think many of the oldtimers are still around, but as Atl_runner said above, most are too busy these days. |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 4441
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 11:34 pm: | |
Even some recent posters have disappeared... Ilovedetroit and his nemesis Metrodetroitguy seem to have disappeared. And what happened to Merchantgander? Stlgasm hasn't posted here in a long time.
And of course we all "miss" the shortlived "supposed" poet laureate Mellodrama since the last mayoral election (tee-hee)... and Rasputin and Brian. |
Gistok
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Username: Gistok
Post Number: 4442
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 11:40 pm: | |
I know that some folks got booted for violating the rules. That youngster NEO got booted for threatening someone. But he was just a kid, and he still come to the Detroit Theatre Tours every August. He's really kinda "gothic", but in a harmless sort of way, and quite knowledgeable and smart for his age (16 as of last year). |
Drankin21
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Username: Drankin21
Post Number: 90
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 2:46 am: | |
i'm 6 foot 3 |