Not that it really matters, but holy cow, 20 years?! I remember signing up soooo long ago, it feels like a different lifetime ago. This site was fledgling at the time. I was curious if there any other members who've been here this long?
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So I've been a MacRumors Forum member for 20 years
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I have a few more years to go before the big 20... but wow... Time is freaking flying right now.
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Wow! Congratulations! That's amazing and pretty impressive. Such a prestige title! time flies.
@ratspg You are close to hitting your 20-year anniversary too?
@lazyrighteye This is also a 20-year mark for you?
@ratspg You are close to hitting your 20-year anniversary too?
@lazyrighteye This is also a 20-year mark for you?
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Thanks @DHagan4755 for making me check my join date. Apparently I'll hit (NOT) 25 years on Halloween this year.
How time flies...
How time flies...
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How? The site is only twenty-two years old. Your public profile says you joined in 2007.
Congratulations.
Twenty years a meber of MacRumors? Wow.
I'm afraid that it clocks in at a mere 14 years for me.
Congrats on the 20 years. 🎂🥳
I used it some. Then I didn't use it for a while. As I just read the news feed and lurked. I forgot the password and no longer had the email address. Once I was more interested in the forums. I decided I wanted an Apple related screen name. So, I just abandoned the old account and made my current one.
But the first time I used MacRumors was around November of 2000. As I came across it. When I was trying to find out when the next PowerMac was coming out. Which made me realize a Macworld Expo was coming up in San Francisco and a new G4 was rumored. Fast forward a couple months. I went to the Expo and saw the presentation for OS X and the DA G4. Which I bought as soon as it was released.
Some people probably used different names. I know when I started I had a different email address and some random screen name. Because I thought I’d just use this site once to answer some question.
I used it some. Then I didn't use it for a while. As I just read the news feed and lurked. I forgot the password and no longer had the email address. Once I was more interested in the forums. I decided I wanted an Apple related screen name. So, I just abandoned the old account and made my current one.
But the first time I used MacRumors was around November of 2000. As I came across it. When I was trying to find out when the next PowerMac was coming out. Which made me realize a Macworld Expo was coming up in San Francisco and a new G4 was rumored. Fast forward a couple months. I went to the Expo and saw the presentation for OS X and the DA G4. Which I bought as soon as it was released.
My 20 years is almost up, I joined 13 Sept 2002. I found the forum super helpful when I bought my first Mac, one of the Mirror Drive Door G4 PowerMacs. Been using Macs ever since, never went back to PC’s.
At the time light years ahead of what a PC looked like.
Oh and the ‘Lickable‘ OS X Aqua interface. 😀
At the time light years ahead of what a PC looked like.
Oh and the ‘Lickable‘ OS X Aqua interface. 😀
That mac was a thing of beauty. I always wanted one, but I was way too young to get a job to afford one at the time.
10 years for me. I think I lurked before then.
Indeed. Thanks for the shout out, @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗. ☺️
Jan. 16, 2002, I formalized my almost 2 years of lurking (geez… It seems like 5 lifetimes ago!). I love this community, warts and all. Have watched it grow and evolve for two decades. It’s so wild to think about how different this community was back in 2000. Back then, Apple was the butt of the tech world jokes. Windows dominated not only personal computing, but business computing. Apple’s bread and butter was catering to the creative class - something for which I’m eternally thankful. I was first exposed to the Mac around 1991. I was just entering college and like many that age, I was drifting, searching, uncertain about how to navigate my unknown future. That all changed when I took my first graphic design class - which is where I was introduced to the Mac (shout out to Mat Planet- one of the sickest fontographers and drummers I know). It was my “ah ha” moment. Up until then, I didn’t know what graphic design was. And when I saw it mixed my passion for art and technology and that people could actually make a living doing that, it was pretty much game over. I dove in with every fiber. I had the great fortune of studying under the Brazilian multi-media artist Eduardo Kac. That guy was a true genius and likely had the most effect on my adult life. He taught a multi-media class (yes, back then, that was a thing). He spent literally that entire semester meticulously walking the four of us nerdy enough to attend every class through the Finder and the OS. That’s no embellishment: an entire semester in the Finder & OS (pretty sure that was System 7). It was incredible. What he was doing was fully demystifying the computer (at a time where people were still intimidated by them, believe it or not), so that we no longer saw them as these things to be intimidated by but saw them as tools - not unlike a hammer or a saw - that could be used to create. Again, it forever sent me down the most wonderful path that staggers me to this day. To date, I have never once done a spec of work on a PC or in Windows. My personal computing has been 100% Mac-based from the jump (minus some prehistoric Ataris). I feel like one of the luckiest dip ***** to have been on this journey. To have seen the almost complete 180°, where Apple is no longer the butt of the tech world jokes (tho there are still plenty to do around). It reminds me that nothing is forever, that change is constant. Don’t get too high, not too low, for eventually it will all change. Ride the ride, people.
Anyway, I’m getting all sentimental. Congrats @DHagan4755, @ratspg and others who have been enjoying and contributing to this community for two decades. And to everyone else bringing their energies and passion to these forums (you know who you are), I’m surely not alone when I say “thank you.” You have taught me so much over the years.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t close with a sincere dose of gratitude to @arn and team. There is literally no site from 2002 that I still visit to this day. And that I do so daily, many times a day, is a pretty astounding accomplishment for the entire MR family. Here’s to 20 more!
Sincerely,
The luckiest dip ****
Whoa. Like literally all I can say.
Sooooo much has happened in the last 20 years, but just like you said @lazyrighteye , this is probably the only site since then that I visit daily. There is no other site like this on the internet. We’ve been through them all 😂
@TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 now I really do feel like Yoda 😂😂 we’ll see you at your 20 year mark… don’t worry lol.
Thank my parents for sending me to computer class after school and for that class only having Apple Macintosh computers and Mario Teaches Typing. First computer was a Performa 550. Let’s just leave it at that. 😎
Congrats to all the other MR veterans !!
@arn , I thank you for all your contributions and what’s been built here over the years. Appreciate all of it very much.
I joined a number of years before my current membership would suggest, but when I lost my log in details I just re-signed up as a new member.
20 years is a loooong time though. Well played. Makes my 14.5 years seem almost like a newbie.
20 years is a loooong time though. Well played. Makes my 14.5 years seem almost like a newbie.
Crazy it’s been that long ! Congrats!!
11 years for me in August.
I was predominantly a QuarkXPress forum user from around 2001 to 2011 or so. But getting more and more into Macs around that year (2011) and less and less into QXP, I was looking for a place to talk PowerPC Macs. MR had an active (and still does) PowerPC forum so I joined up.
Congrats on 20 OP.
I was predominantly a QuarkXPress forum user from around 2001 to 2011 or so. But getting more and more into Macs around that year (2011) and less and less into QXP, I was looking for a place to talk PowerPC Macs. MR had an active (and still does) PowerPC forum so I joined up.
Congrats on 20 OP.
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@lazyrighteye @ratspg Thank you for sharing your special story. Endless respect to both of you and others. 🫡
In a few more months, seventeen years for me -- and counting! Yep, a lot of changes over those years, both in the site itself and in Apple and its products as well.....
It's been almost 15 for me, although I sort of come and go when it comes to forum activity. Lots of change of course - Apple had recently switched to Intel but I was still daily driving my G4 PowerMac.
How? How you ask? Because you’re right and I’m an idiot apparently. Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll own it. 😂