Where did most of the old BuF crew go?

SkaarjMaster · May 29, 2008

I stop by every now and then these days, but not very much in OT.

Ah, the glory days..........I still remember my original UT install date (June 4, 2000). I discovered UT forums, UT web sites and custom maps shortly thereafter and it's been downhill ever since.

Dark Pulse · May 29, 2008

Yay, old new breed.

shadow_dragon · May 29, 2008

I thought my Join Date was '99 must've gotten confused.

I remember in the old days I used to frequent Planet Unreal for all my info and every now and again BU would be linked to from there with news. I didn't like BU back then but then BU became a very nice site and PU became @ss

Skillz · May 29, 2008

shadow_dragon said:
I thought my Join Date was '99 must've gotten confused.

I remember in the old days I used to frequent Planet Unreal for all my info and every now and again BU would be linked to from there with news. I didn't like BU back then but then BU became a very nice site and PU became @ss

+1

I used to use planetunreal for everything.

Hadmar · May 29, 2008

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TossMonkey · May 29, 2008

I post a couple times a day. It's an old habit now and I doubt I'll be going anywhere else. Other forums just don't feel right.

Zaccix · May 29, 2008

Still here. Survived both crashes and representin' 99. Hopefully there won't be a hat trick of crashes.

Trynant · May 29, 2008

I wish I started posting in December 2001 instead of January 2002, but I've lurked here since BU was only BuF. Do I count as old school yet?

funkblast · May 29, 2008

2001 crew represent.

IceCreamYou · May 29, 2008

neilthecellist said:
Wait, wasn't IceCreamYou a user from 2002? Why hasn't a moderator/administrator changed this?

I was still using NerfEd (for Nerf Arena Blast... anyone?) in 2002. It wasn't until 2004 that I was introduced to UnrealEd and hence to UT--and, in the course of my UnrealEd troubles, to the BU Mapping Forum and then to all of BU. I more or less lurked until mid-2007 and I've been active since.

I've used a few different accounts though, I think the last one was SeriousSamStone before IceCreamYou.

hyrulian · May 29, 2008

May 2001, survivor of both crashes. I missed my BuFday yet again this year, though.

Selerox · May 30, 2008

The Green Boards guys are the true oldskoolers...

Trynant said:
Do I count as old school yet?

Not even close yet

Syri · May 30, 2008

i can't have missed the green boards by much... pretty sure it was blue PU when i joined up

8-4-7-2 · May 30, 2008

At least by six months. It was green until early 2000 at the latest.

alien8 · May 30, 2008

No, I'm pretty sure it was a ways before that even. I'm almost positive that I was still living at home then, and I moved out in... 1998?

NeoNite · May 30, 2008

I've asked it before, but no one had saved any:

Screenshots of the old green boards ?

alien8 · May 30, 2008

I haven't got any screenshots, I'm afraid, so I thought I'd try The Wayback Machine. Green boards were definitely pre December of 1998:

PuF circa 1998

Swedix, Boom, and creatoR are all logged in. Funny stuff.

Rocket_Magnet · May 30, 2008

I check back every so often, ut doesn't hold my interest at all anymore ut3 was meh heck I enjoyed 2k4 more.

I keep coming back to see when the hell the next elan is

Syri · May 30, 2008

don't think there'll be another elan tbh. drumming up enough interest is getting hard. think the main attraction was the high speed connection, stable servers. but of course, you've got high speed from home now, and probably a better system in most cases too. so i guess a lot of the appeal's gone from it now.

hal · May 30, 2008

alien8 said:
I haven't got any screenshots, I'm afraid, so I thought I'd try The Wayback Machine. Green boards were definitely pre December of 1998:

PuF circa 1998

Swedix, Boom, and creatoR are all logged in. Funny stuff.

Yeah, that's obviously not right!

If my recollection serves me well, we switched from the old green boards to the shiny new blue boards in the summer of 1999.

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