14-01-2004 01:21									#1
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Before you stumble upon the holy bastion amongst the waste that is the internet were did you hang out online?

Me, I used to frequent Bravenet and MSN chat rooms and then I found JRChat which is a chatroom created by LummoxJR, who is practicaly the founding father of the Creatures community (not stefu not furries, its a computer game). There I learned how to be civil and conduct myself without asking "a/s/l" "wanna cyber" etc. Then one day I did a dogpile search on "Civ2 scenarios" and the most mentioned site was CFC, but because I liked Apolyton's lay out and forums more I came here.

	14-01-2004 01:22									#2
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I found CivFanatics and Apolyton at the same time, while trying to design a "Second Age of Middle Earth" scenario for CivII. Then there was the run-up to CivIII, it's release, and somewhere along the line I found the OT forum. Mistake, that.

-Arrian

	14-01-2004 01:23									#3
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In terms of forums though, and not chatrooms -- Apolyton has been the first forum I have become stuck with over the years -- there was one fictional writers' forum that I found, but they closed that one down.

So now, Apolyton is the only forum I participate in. Markos should give me brownie points for my loyalty.

	14-01-2004 01:28									#4
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straight outta compton.

	14-01-2004 01:31									#5
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I honestly don't remember. There was some forum on which I regularly discussed politics and such. I remember hanging out there during the 2000 elections. But I have no clue where it was now, or even what my user name was.

	14-01-2004 01:34									#6
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First forums I used were WWII literary forums that long ago perished, then an few mIRC chatrooms.

Started at Apoyton, but moved to CFC beause some of the experianced unit makers gave me considerable help, then CDG. Always monitored Poly though.

OT was something I participated in when I first joined both forums, basically becasue the other forum members warned me agains it But I got tired of them and left, came back to both a few months ago, but CFC's is hardly as entertaining as this one.

	14-01-2004 01:41									#7
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OWO

I had visited theold Ultimate site, but didn't stay (just downloaded scenarios)

Jon Miller

	14-01-2004 01:48									#8
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Before Poly, I mostly hung out in AOL financial chatrooms giving people terrible investing tips, or AOL dating chatrooms pretending to be a woman. I'm not exactly sure how that led to me eventually winding up at Poly, but whatever.

	14-01-2004 01:58									#9
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Discovered CFC and Apolyton at the same time. I got the brilliant idea of seeing what sites they were on civ, and these two were by far the best. Iliked the strategy offered on CFC, but I loved the demogames offered on Apolyton. I remember sifting through all the civ2DG archives, and then joining the game.

For the first 4 months, I stayed exclusively ontopic, until I checked out this mysterious off-topic forum. Since then I've probably posted on a 2 to 1 ratio, twice as much off-topic as on.

Never posted before Apolyton, I never chatted either. Not much opportunity until I had my own computer at home with internet access, something I did not have up until the last year or so.

	14-01-2004 02:14									#10
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I didn't. I discovered Apolyton after only being online for about a month or so, back in 98.

	14-01-2004 02:21									#11
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OWO

	14-01-2004 02:38									#12
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:sigh:

I'm a former AOL-er...

	14-01-2004 02:41									#13
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I found the site while looking for good civ2 scenerios to download and graphics to use in my own.

This is also the first and only internet forum I post.

	14-01-2004 03:19									#14
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I first got online through Prodigy, which we had at work from about 1992. At home I didn't hook up until 1995, and my ISP was some company that has probably been resold about 3 or 5 times. Actually, I do know it has because the company that bought it sold itself to Compuserve, which in turn sold itself to AOL.

However, I jumped to AOL long before that because it was available nationally on a level that this other ISP couldn't even match (though it claimed nationwide coverage). It was at AOL where I first chatted and used message boards heavily - I preferred MB's much more than chatting, and far more than the cacophony of usenet. My first "favorite" board was an AOL board about the end of the millennium, and we talked a lot about Nostradumbass, Y2k (If I had a nickel for everytime I heard "If one part of the grid goes down, it'll ALL GO DOWN!!" I'd have a nicer car), "best of" lists, and stuff like that.

I got out of AOHell as soon as I got DSL (a couple of years ago), but my wife still uses it. The biggest complaint I had with the service is that you couldn't ALT-TAB between windows, which really slows me down.

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	14-01-2004 03:28									#15
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Iron Lung, PC Zone, Alpha Centauri, Firaxis and OWO.

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AmberMUSH

	14-01-2004 03:55									#17
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I played Civ 2 for a bit, then Civ 3 came out. I went searching for Marla's world map over in a big ol' long thread at CFC (skipping a day of school ) and was linked here eventually, where I first hung out in the Civ 3 Creation forum.

	14-01-2004 03:57									#18
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Various MUSHes. I had my own, too.

	14-01-2004 04:17									#19
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quote: Originally posted by loinburger Before Poly, I mostly hung out in AOL financial chatrooms giving people terrible investing tips, or AOL dating chatrooms pretending to be a woman. I'm not exactly sure how that led to me eventually winding up at Poly, but whatever.

Was that for shits and giggles or would you prefer to be a woman? Just asking for curiosities sake. I always wondered how many men pretended to be an 18 year old girl and vice versa.

	14-01-2004 05:22									#20
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I was into a local BBS back in the early '90s. Then... AOL. Did some dungeons and dragons in AOL chatrooms. I don't remember any AOL forums though.

Then, I don't remember much Internet activity. Maybe I actually had a life for a few years. Then came Civ and my life was forever doomed. Found Apolyton through Gameleague. Found Gameleague when my friend Buddy and I decided (amongst ourselves) we were two of the best Civ2 players in the world and sought out a site where we could prove it. Sure enough we were two of the best, but there was more competition out there than we expected.

So I basically just posted in the Gameleague forum, hosted by Apolyton. Finally I went exploring and found the rest of the site. I'm not as hooked on OT as the rest of you, but I'm still here more than I should be.

	14-01-2004 06:06									#21
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quote: Where did YOU come from?

Uranus.

	14-01-2004 06:07									#22
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Forums for whatever game I was playing at the time.

The only reason I am still visiting apolyton is because the Off Topic got a hold of me.

	14-01-2004 06:08									#23
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Drunk at uni.Some guy was using the computer for civ.
The powergraph sucked me in.Got engaged, split up,played more civ.Did an internet search.Lurked for a couple of years, and then, one day got fed up about flags and spammed.

	14-01-2004 06:18									#24
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From the Original Greek site before the merger... and before that... the Addicted to Civ site.

	14-01-2004 06:22									#25
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I use to chat on mirc a lot back in college... but that's about it.

Once I got out of school I was always to busy to chat. Then one day at work, while thinking of CIV, I decided to look for ppl to talk about it with... Found this place and nothing has been the same.

	14-01-2004 06:30									#26
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bbs's in the early 90s then.....darkness....then here

	14-01-2004 06:44									#27
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RINKWORKS!!!!111!

	14-01-2004 07:12									#28
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I came from my mother...

I got hooked on Alpha Centauri a few years ago and while searching for strategies, I stumbled onto these boards

	14-01-2004 07:31									#29
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Through my interest in Civ2 scenarios (Red Front comes to mind), but I can't really remember the exact details...lurked for quite a while and then registered, just to semi-lurk some more...

	14-01-2004 08:11									#30
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Poly was my first.