Olden Days Memories

[DarkCloud]

Please post here your oldest apolyton memory (or fairly significant event) and around the time it occurred... please explain its detalis or your response to it.

Oh yes, this is being done so that Apolyton: The Book can be completed... or at least move along in its completion... (Requested by Solver,DanQ,Asher,and others )

The Link to Apolyton:the Book is in my signature


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Well, I may as well start things off with my first significant event memory.

Area 24.

Many people know all about this so I wont bore you with many of the details.

The way the month or week started was with Andz82's (my memory must really be going,,, was he 82 or 83 or 84?) leaving Apolyton. I wished him good luck while others cursed him and AH or someone else mentioned that he'd likely be back... I hardly knew any OTers at that time.

Then the Area 24 incident broke surface.
It seems that amny apolytoners had followed The Call of Snapcase into a forum that MarkG forgot to lock- he entered it by typing forumid numbers into the browser toolbar... This was where PH and many others acquired hundreds of posts through spam and other unseemly activities.

When I saw the list of the banned, I was quite interested, and followed the details of the issue although I was not yet fully integrated into apoylton culture, and felt somewhat taht I udnerstood... but was still vaguely puzzled by the whole issue (oh well, newbie syndrome )

Now 'tis your turn

[Caligastia]

I remember the days when debates over drug policy would rage. I guess that topics done to death...

[Paul Hanson]

I remember ottok. Or more precisely, I can't forget ottok.

[Sarxis]

This very well may be my first post on Apolyton- posted on September 25th 1999 in Civ2 general forum:

"I am the Great and Powerful Sauron! Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"



Its all been downhill from there.

[November Adam]

I remember my first posting was in the Civ section.

We were talking about government forms, and it ended up in a history type discusion.

Then me being totaly flamed by one fellow for being wrong about Germany's relationship with Russia prior to the war that broke out.

So I told the guy to back off, and others kindly came to my defence.

Interesting newbie experinece.

[orange]

Area25.

I remember the failed Exodus to the Mod Asylum...i forget when...had to be over a year ago at least...the mods did something....probably took away post counts in the OT or something...I forget what, and me and a few others fled to the mod asylum in hopes that everyone would join us...they didn't.

[Paul Hanson]

I still have my account at the Mod Asylum. And the second highest post count after Djug.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I asked "What's Apolyton?" on owo.

The answer was "It's full of bible-bashers and nazis".

[Az]

and then you went here , right?

I remember civ2 posts, when me and Orange attacked this guy over the Soviet Union . ahh.

[November Adam]

when exactly was this? Hmmm?

You bastards!!!

Actually the fellow who lamb basted me severly was Soul Assassin.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I remember, coming to the CTP Off Topic (back in the day) with YYYH. Yelling at Red Trotskyite about communism and everyone else about CTP (on the on topic). Was threatened with banning by Markos. But then kinda gelled in the CTP Off Topic. When the Off Topics joined, I was thrust into something interesting, because the Civ Off Topic was much bigger than the CTP one.

[Kropotkin]

Yeah there where many in the Civ 2 OT but they needed guidance by an elite. That's when we at the CTP OT came into the picture.

[Eli]

I remember emailing Ming and asking my password.

I'm sure he regrets the day he sent it to me.

But the most significant event is Area 25(?). I was banned and this is what caused me to stay on Poly.
And my first DL... Actually Ecthelion made it for me, because I didnt know how.

[Kropotkin]

Mings biggest misstake there young Spamwalker

[red_jon]

I remember only posting in the on-topic for ages, until I discovered the on-topic.

When I first started posting in the OT Civvers was posting on the evils of homosexuality, when I revealed I was a gay christian.

Thought I was fairly unknown for ages until Gibsie (I think it was) remarked "there are no unknown gay posters red_jon"