Ten years

Malte279 · **on:** August 01, 2010, 07:48:00 AM

August 1st. Today is kind of a jubilee for me. On August 1st 2000 I found an online forum, the one at N54, for the first time. I posted the following message as my first ever online entry on the land before time.
By now the N54 board has become rather silent, but it still is a highly interesting archive and I will always look back to it affectionately and with gratitude. My attempts to find the founder of that board again (who became inactive relatively soon) have been in vain. It was on that board that I got to know Adam and I think that it is there that the foundation for the GOF was laid. A good number of you used to post there before you came to the GOF, and it is there that I met another land before time fan for the first time and I'm still in contact with her (though I could never talk her into joining the GOF

).
Ten years is quite some time and quite some development has taken place. It is funny now to read some of the messages from back then.
Well, ten years are past now, let's get ready for the next decade

Pangaea · **Reply #1 on:** August 01, 2010, 08:06:56 AM

Wow. I'd say that was a pretty big day in LBT online fandom history. If you hadn't made that first post, the GOF would be extremely different than it is now, if it existed at all.

Happy LBT posting decennial, Malte!

(Next year we can celebrate your first LBT posting schnappszahl!

)

Petrie. · **Reply #2 on:** August 01, 2010, 09:14:19 AM

And your English has improved greatly too.

I remember helping you often with it. I think I joined one year after you....something like that because 2001 was when I started fiddling with web services online.

Things would have probably turned out differently if Malte wasn't around that's for sure!

Petrie. · **Reply #3 on:** August 01, 2010, 09:16:28 AM

Correction, two years later because here is where Malte welcomed me to the board fandom: http://www.network54.com/Forum/26773/messa...32/Welcome+here!

Kor · **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2010, 09:30:45 AM

Happy 10th anniversary. Going to do anything special today?

Mumbling · **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2010, 11:36:40 AM

Congratulations Malte!

Sky · **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2010, 03:17:57 PM

10 years... that is indeed a great number!

Congratulations to your anniversary, Malte!

Lillefot · **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2010, 04:58:53 PM

10 years... Quite amazing to think about how much that happens during such a time span. Even for an LBT fan forum.

Congratulations on the anniversary Malte.

DarkWolf91 · **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2010, 05:11:55 PM

Yeesh, a whole decade! That's a major milestone, for sure! And what a fortuitous day in the history of the LBT fandom

Congratulations, Malte- live it up!

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2010, 06:22:43 PM

Wow. Talk about a legacy. Just think.....back then people were using Windows 98 (or maybe 2000). XP hadn't even been released yet. Now we've gone through Vista and are now at Windows 7.

Damn, things sure do change fast. I can't wait to see where we'll be in another 10 years.

Kor · **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2010, 09:06:28 PM

Maybe if some lbt members live near to you you can plan a get together to celebrate and have a party to celebrate.

Malte279 · **Reply #11 on:** August 02, 2010, 05:54:41 AM

There had been some considering of Gus and Pat coming over to my place (though the ten years were not the thought behind this). Unfortunately we couldn't find a date that was okay with all three of us. The GOF member who lives closest to my place happens to be in Canada at the moment (and even for her it would be some distance). Its kind of odd that I life in one of the most populous regions of Germany (of Europe in fact) but all other land before time fans from this country seem to live way down south or east so no occasional visit is possible just like that

Kor · **Reply #12 on:** August 02, 2010, 09:54:21 AM

That is to bad. Maybe you can arrange several meetings over the year with some who can attend this one, some that one ect.

Saft · **Reply #13 on:** August 02, 2010, 10:28:52 AM

Congratulations Malte. That is quite an achivement.

Petrie. · **Reply #14 on:** August 02, 2010, 11:29:30 AM

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Its kind of odd that I life in one of the most populous regions of Germany (of Europe in fact) but all other land before time fans from this country seem to live way down south or east so no occasional visit is possible just like that

Well I kind of know how that feels....except I'm the opposite...I live in small town upstate NY and that chances of finding anyone remotely close is nil.

I know of the NYC folk here but you won't get me to drive anywhere near the city. Idiots drive 2cm from each other there.

Chilli18 · **Reply #15 on:** August 02, 2010, 05:07:18 PM

Congratulations Malte...wow 10 years...amazing

Littlefoot1616 · **Reply #16 on:** August 03, 2010, 08:15:29 AM

Wow! Ten years! Seems like an age thinking that back then you made your very first post and interacted with other LBT fans online. Quite the achievement. I remember you were one of the first people to welcome me to the N54 forum. The start of a great friendship (if not too bold to say

). Still, congrats on your 10year anniversary of LBT forum...going...on-ness

Here's to many more years yet to come matey! A trophy worthy achievement

Malte279 · **Reply #17 on:** August 03, 2010, 10:21:47 AM

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The start of a great friendship (if not too bold to say ).

Not at all too bold to say

Littlefoot1616 · **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2010, 11:49:34 AM

And indeed it was

Thanks for that buddy!

buffypii · **Reply #19 on:** August 21, 2010, 11:34:40 AM

WOW! Congrats Malte!!!