Buffy went on the air in March, 1997, and the TT thread started in May.
Kaylee: Captain seem a little funny to you at breakfast this morning? Wash: Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one.
'Heart Of Gold'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Tom Scola - Oct 15, 2014 8:12:33 am PDT #2369 of 3094
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erikaj - Oct 15, 2014 8:22:58 am PDT #2370 of 3094
Always Anti-fascist!
Hi. I'm...not as different as I would like to be, but I have better hair(and sadly a worse wheelchair) since I joined the board. After a few years, I could get my stories published, ignore the crazy peopleor fight with them and actually post some of the curse words that can be mainstays in my spoken speech.(That year, I was really concerned about how much to let gimptitude influence what I posted...was "coming out" the right way to go?)
Tom Scola - Oct 15, 2014 8:45:38 am PDT #2371 of 3094
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
OK, so now I had to go back and read the first TT thread from the archives. There are only a few posts in 1997, and traffic was pretty slow through 1998. Discussion didn't really pick up until S3, and finally there's a burst of traffic at the end of S3. I'm looking for the first posts of active Buffistas I can recognize, and it seems a bunch of us all started posting within a few days of each other:
Dana D. - 07:27 am PST - Nov 25, 1998 - #442 of 4014
(I assume this is our Dana?)
Vortex - 01:34 pm PST - Feb 11, 1999 - #787 of 4014
Katie P - 01:29 pm PST - Jun 1, 1999 - #1594 of 4014
David J. Schwartz - 10:19 am PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1647 of 4014
Holli M. - 12:54 pm PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1649 of 4014
Tom Scola - 06:49 am PST - Jun 4, 1999 - #1678 of 4014
Madrigal Costello - 01:52 pm PST - Jun 10, 1999 - #1793 of 4014
Jessica - Oct 15, 2014 8:56:36 am PDT #2372 of 3094
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I think we should delurk as the people we were when we joined the board.
How happy I am that I am no longer that person, let me count the ways!
Atropa - Oct 15, 2014 9:20:47 am PDT #2373 of 3094
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I think we should delurk as the people we were when we joined the board.
Ha!
Hi, I'm Jilli. I just started working at Microsoft as a content editor, and it seems like a pretty good company to work for. I'm a goth, and I run the Gothic Miss Manners site. I have idle dreams of becoming a published author, and I make a lot of jokes about eventually starting a cult. Also, I take advice from a fanged stuffed bunny who will one day rule the world.
Zenkitty - Oct 15, 2014 9:46:34 am PDT #2374 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm in my late 30s, just got out of a relationship, lonely, depressed, and broke, and looking for Buffy people. Found the Board at random. Not sure how come all these people seem to know each other, but they're funny and smart, and reading about their lives in progress is better than a novel. And now the Real Actual Tim Minear is talking to us and everyone's chipping in to bring somebody named "Nilly" to the US for a tour, and this all seems pretty cool, so I guess I'll delurk.
SuziQ - Oct 15, 2014 9:47:04 am PDT #2375 of 3094
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Hi - I'm Maidengurl/Lexine/Suziq
I have been lurking and posting occasionally for a few years but now that I'm posting more, I figured I should say Hi. I'm looking forward to meeting some of you at the NillyQue. Nervous but excited.
I'm married with two young kids. I like my job and it feels like I've been working here forever. My mom lives with us and it is so nice having three adults working and watching over the kids. I like baseball, palm trees, the oxford comma, and cilantro.
Dana - Oct 15, 2014 10:08:02 am PDT #2376 of 3094
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Yep, that's me. I'd been married for a month.
Atropa - Oct 15, 2014 10:27:15 am PDT #2377 of 3094
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(An aside about the make a lot of jokes about eventually starting a cult comment: I hit 25K followers on Tumblr this morning. Now if I could only get this cult to be really lucrative ... )
Tom Scola - Oct 15, 2014 10:32:55 am PDT #2378 of 3094
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I hit 25K followers on Tumblr this morning.
I'm pretty sure it was Tiny Winter Soldier that pushed you over the edge.