I've had a thought...

[Godson]

So this community has been around for roughly 18 years in some way shape or form.

It got me thinking. This place is kinda like the bar on cheers. Some of us duck away for a little while, but we seem to always come back home. we talk about our successes, failures, happy times, and sad times.

This doesn't feel like some Facebook group to me. Ya'll are family.



Just some random thoughts I had earlier.

[2ndMoparMan]

Scary to think that some of us have been around that long. We're all getting old...

[The359]

Damn, almost back to the 90s now that I think about it.

[speedpimp]

Definitely family.

[G'day Mate]

I joined here when I was 16 and now I'm 33, so that's half my life

[speedpimp]

I was 30, now I'm 45, that's over 1/3 of mine.

[thesameguy]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Jacee]

I've only been here for about 16 years ... one name change for me (was cookie mama), but I'm always glad to see the "beginning" forum users are still here!http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/jcee/hug4.gif

[Leon]

Norm!!!

[Freude am Fahren]

Where everybody knows your name...

Well, forum name anyway.

I think I joined in 99? So 17 of my 30 years and Ive always visited on a nearly daily basis to all our incarnations.

[overpowered]

Family? I'm pretty sure I'm the drunk uncle.

[novicius]

Still better than Facebook. :up: :up:

[Alan P]

It must have been my early twenties, maybe 23 or 24 when I joined the original site so 18 or 19 years.

[2ndMoparMan]

I think I was 16 or 17 at the time. I do remember that the first season of EZGT(who remembers THAT?) was either just finishing or had just finished at the time. Man, that was ages ago.

[Dicknose]

So I was in my 30s...

[speedpimp]

I think I was 16 or 17 at the time. I do remember that the first season of EZGT(who remembers THAT?) was either just finishing or had just finished at the time. Man, that was ages ago.

Definitely remember that and EZGT Chat .

[Godson]

/me slaps SP around with a large trout.

[Jason]

Yeah, its getting very close to being half of my life :lol:

I think I first ran into the GT forums when it was not quite a forum, but a comment tree, forget what it was called. Absolutely nuts! It is a little sad that there's fewer users these days, but between this and facebook connections, we've stuck together pretty well :up:

[Rare White Ape]

I joined in 2004, so I'm just a baby.

[JoshInKC]

I think I started lurking off and on in early 2000, don't think I started an actual account until that winter. So, yeah - it's been awhile.

[speedpimp]

/me slaps SP around with a large trout.
You flirtin'?

[stephenb]

I must be right around half my life. Discovered the original board when I was at university age 18/19 and I'm now 37!

[Phil_SS]

I joined in July 99. But I was lurking for about a year.


Here is one for the way back machine. 1641

[Godson]

Nice!

[GB]

I was old when I stumbled in.

Now I'm 17 years older. (1999 member)

[Jason]

Now I'm realizing it is in fact more than half my life. Woah.

[Yeti]

I remember lurking at the GT boards in the very late 90s. I don't think I registered to post until October or November of 2000. I'm certain there was some other Kenji site I lurked on before coming over to his GT board too. Game-something.

So I've been around for more than half of my life as well. Holy balls.

[G'day Mate]

The thing is ... as soon as any of you change your screen name or avatar everything I know about you leaves my mind and I have to figure out who you are all over again:sadbanana:

[Freude am Fahren]

I know what you mean. Maybe we should all put our old aliases in our signature or something.

By the way, for those that may not know, I was Espace F1 for the first forum or two.

[overpowered]

The thing is ... as soon as any of you change your screen name or avatar everything I know about you leaves my mind and I have to figure out who you are all over again:sadbanana:You didn't change yours. I didn't change mine.

I was a relative late comer though, 2002.

[overpowered]

I've only been here for about 16 years ... one name change for me (was cookie mama), but I'm always glad to see the "beginning" forum users are still here!http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/jcee/hug4.gifI remember you being "cookie". For some reason I remember it as "cookie", not "cookie mama".

[Jason]

The thing is ... as soon as any of you change your screen name or avatar everything I know about you leaves my mind and I have to figure out who you are all over again:sadbanana:

Its like making new friends!

[Dicknose]

I was dicknose, then dicknose and now just dicknose.

[Cam]

I joined in '99 too. My original name was DaneJurus.

[JSGeneral]

I'm the equivalent of that quiet guy who just strolls up to the bar... has a drink... listens to the conversations going on... chuckles to himself... and then leaves just as quietly. Been doing that since '98.

[Kchrpm]

Losers.

[novicius]

I joined in '99 too. My original name was DaneJurus.
Holy shit, that was you?? :lol:

[GB]

Since we're getting all sentimental and mushy about our little family, should we start a "Faces of GTXF" trend?

I'll be brave and start:

Here's my boys and me out for my 50th (ugh) birthday dinner a few weeks ago. Joe's Crab Shack, Daytona Beach Pier.



http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1642&stc=1

[thesameguy]

Back at Y2K it made sense to hang out on a BBS. Now what's our excuse?

[Yw-slayer]

Sheer laziness?

[21Kid]

:lol: We were even a Tavern at one point. ;)

I think Adam has us all beat as far as % of life spent here.

I wish some people still visited. It seems like quite a few have drifted away lately. I thought we had a "Faces of GTX" thread somewhere? Maybe at Nigel's? Do you still have that info :random: ? We should probably update it every few years or so. We had a running list of cars (thanks to Keith), but not ourselves. :lol:

I still don't know most people's real names :o, unless I've met them in person.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Looking back at myself..., I think I'm a very simple minded impressionable dude over the years...

Started out as just Billy and only wish to race IROC and EZGT.

After season after season of chasing the likes of Egag and Karma and unable to catch them I began to idolize them... and changed my name to Billi in honor of Karma... because he created his online name using 3 letters of his 1st name and 2 letters of his last name...

After exhausting my passion for online racing(after realizing although I'm fast, but I'm never going to catch the likes of Karma), I began to "fall in love", at first it was Doc Love... and then the ultimate Doc Love... Jesus Christ himself! That's when I changed my name again to something the rhymes with Christianity! ;)

Anyway, I've learned a lot of things from this online family, particularly the different point of views..., that's why I'm still around.

I am kinda sadden by the ones who are no longer with us... either thru drifting away or fights or thru death. :(

I guess this is just like any real family.

Except that we are not producing any kids here! Will 21kids be enough for the family to carry on? :p

[speedpimp]

:lol: We were even a Tavern at one point. ;)



And a Box, how can we forget The Box?

[2ndMoparMan]

Or the GTBTN, for some of us.

[GB]

We even had a place for some of us to go to make fun of the people who didn't have any place else to go and didn't know that some of us went to the place that only some of us knew about.


:erm:

[G'day Mate]

Oh we all knew about it.

Hang on ... what?

[Rare White Ape]

I remember in '06 or '07 before a lot of us became connected via other means such as Facebook, when the first forum I joined, granturismox.net, it's server died and I was like… lost.

On the first day I checked it every half-hour* hoping it might be back soon. Then those intervals became slightly longer as the days passed by. Eventually it was once a day, then a few times a week, then if I remembered that the place even existed. I was so sad at having lost my GT family. Like a lil lost puppy with sad eyes and a quivering bottom lip.

Then one day! I forget how and I forget who, but I saw that people migrated to the Green Tavern and had been there for a number of months. I was both relieved and gobsmacked. I found youse again :) But you were all probably thinking why it was so hard to get rid of me, weren't ya?!?!

That was the first big exodus that I recall, a lot of us made it to TGT, but a lot more didn't, and I don't think we've been as strong as we were back in those days. But for the survivors who've made it all this way, it really shows how well and how tightly knit your friendships have been since the beginning, and I really respect that.

Cheers!



*really it was every 20 seconds

[drew]

April 2000 (or thereabouts).

I think it was a couple months later, that I met Phil (SuperSport) and John (roofer). Then we went to Wisconsin for the first meet up.

Then it was a trip to CT, then another to PA, the the three of us went to England in Jan 2001, met Russ and Naomi, and a bunch of other kick ass people.

Trev came to the US in July 2001, I hosted a "GTFP" at that time as well.

At one point, I think Russ and I were competing for most members met. If memory serves (I quit keeping track a decade ago), I was at 110+, through various meet ups (several New England, one Florida (Glenn, we're WAY overdue, and I'm only 2 hours away...) AZ, WI, PA, Several trips to CO... it's fucking crazy now that I'm thinking about it.

EZGTCHat... holy hell.

[Kchrpm]

And a Box, how can we forget The Box?

Because some of us weren't allowed in...

[novicius]

There was a Tavern? :assclown:

[GB]

Florida (Glenn, we're WAY overdue, and I'm only 2 hours away...)

No argument from me. We'll work it out.

I'm still stunned that I decided to hold a little party here in Florida, and people came from as far away as South Carolina to be here.
And New York.
And Indiana.
And Montana.
And California.
And Dublin, Ireland.
And London, England.

People were like, "To play a VIDEO GAME??!!??"

No. They just didn't GET it. We were TIGHT.

[thesameguy]

... until everyone showed up. Then you were loose.

[Random]

At one point, I think Russ and I were competing for most members met. If memory serves (I quit keeping track a decade ago), I was at 110+, through various meet ups (several New England, one Florida (Glenn, we're WAY overdue, and I'm only 2 hours away...) AZ, WI, PA, Several trips to CO... it's fucking crazy now that I'm thinking about it.

I'm currently at 121, I think. My work copy of the spreadsheet isn't up to date. :o

SUCK IT! :finger:

[drew]

Yep, you win. I've long lost my "sheet". It'd be nigh impossible to go back and re-construct it. Granted, you and I have quite a few of the same. :finger:

I'm not even sure I could remember the meet locations of all the ones I attended at this point...

Glenn, we'll sort something out, soon. We've been here two years for fuck's sake! Need to get Ed in on that too.

[Godson]

You'll need to hit Ed up on fb

[JSGeneral]

I'm on each of Random's and drew's spreadsheets! Had no idea there were 121 of us.

[MR2 Fan]

I'm in Florida too.

Started around the time the first forum started, whatever year that was....as MR2 Fan...been MR2 Fan ever since

[Cam]

No argument from me. We'll work it out.
Make sure you let me know when. I could be up for a road trip if I'm free. :D

I've met quite a few members as well, but I doubt the number is as high as 100... could be. *shrug*

[Cam]

NEGTP6 in Windsor, CT, October, 2001. Note a 14 year old Adam/HondaKid and the "DaneJurus" name tag. :) Oh, and the Minardi hat and Mercedes/McLaren shirt. :lol:

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[Kchrpm]

I'm still waiting for the next big party to happen near one of Bryan's races.

[speedpimp]

And a Box, how can we forget The Box?


Because some of us weren't allowed in...

That, sir, sounds like a personal problem.:assclown:

[tigeraid]

Yeesh, I've only met one other GTXfer in person. But I've been around since uuuuuh GT2, so that'd be 17 years. I was 18. Holy shit. :|

EDIT: and I was allllllllllways tigeraid, since 1996. Which is either impressive, or sad.

[Phil_SS]

I'm still waiting for the next big party to happen near one of Bryan's races.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go to Mid-Ohio. Wonder if we can pull anybody else in.

And I'm tryin to come up with some good banners for the race:

"More like HOTkotter"
"Heitkotter = (alien symbol)"
"Heitkotter = Hotlapper in (german flag)

[Kchrpm]

Nothing wrong with finding a good name and sticking with it :up: Finding out how people say my name online is still one of my joys. My favorites have been (obviously) Krunch, Letters (because my name is just letters), and Spin Class (because her spin class was called RPM). The most common (besides K or KC) is Ketchup Man.

[Kchrpm]

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go to Mid-Ohio. Wonder if we can pull anybody else in.

And I'm tryin to come up with some good banners for the race:

"More like HOTkotter"
"Heitkotter = (alien symbol)"
"Heitkotter = Hotlapper in (german flag)
I like where your heads at :up:

[drew]

I'm on each of Random's and drew's spreadsheets! Had no idea there were 121 of us.


There was a lot of overlap, due to the MW gatherings (and the AZ deal), , but he had more west coast than I did, and I think I had more CO/East coast than he did :)

The fucked up thing was, we met each other (Russ and I) in London.

I should write a book.

[Phil_SS]

A Timeline could be pretty fuckin cool. Are there any websites that could help with that. Or a plugin for this forum.

I have a pretty good memory and I remember most of the parties and when they happened. Especially if I could start writing them down and putting them into a timeline.

[Dicknose]

There was a lot of overlap, due to the MW gatherings (and the AZ deal), , but he had more west coast than I did, and I think I had more CO/East coast than he did :)

The fucked up thing was, we met each other (Russ and I) in London.

I should write a book.
You need to come to Australia...

[drew]

If Trump wins the presidency, we'll be there before he's sworn in mate.


Phil, it'd all be from memory. I can probably name the places, but many of the names may be foggy (due to that being my usual state at the things).

[JoshInKC]

Nothing wrong with finding a good name and sticking with it :up: Finding out how people say my name online is still one of my joys. My favorites have been (obviously) Krunch, Letters (because my name is just letters), and Spin Class (because her spin class was called RPM). The most common (besides K or KC) is Ketchup Man.

In my head, it's something like "KuhChirpM"

[thesameguy]

Dammit. That's all I'm going see now.

Well, better than the dyslexic crutchperm.

[tigeraid]

Is it OCD of me that I read it as "Kay See Aich Arr Pee Em" every time?

[CudaMan]

If it is, I'm OCD too.

And possibly also dyslexic because for years I read it as "Kay See Aich Pee Arr Em"

[The359]

I just stick with Keef.

[overpowered]

Kitch-are-pee-em

[Rare White Ape]

k-CHARP-mmm

[drew]

hay-cee-aytch-are-pee-em

[Godson]

Krunch...

[M4FFU]

Think I joined when I was 18/19 and I'm turning 34 soon. Scary!

[Kchrpm]

Whenever someone asks how to say it, I tell them to just spell it out.

[Freude am Fahren]

I read it as either K-C-H R-P-M or kuh-chirp-uhm, for years, then it kinda swung to krunch since so many said that.

[JSGeneral]

I read it as either K-C-H R-P-M or kuh-chirp-uhm, for years, then it kinda swung to krunch since so many said that.

Whatever "Freude Ferdinand"

(I don't know why... but that's what I always say in my head when reading your name.)

[Mirage]

It is pretty crazy to think this community has been around and together half my lifetime.

[tigeraid]

Whatever "Freude Ferdinand"

(I don't know why... but that's what I always say in my head when reading your name.)



What sucked was when he raced at ESR, I had to write out that whole nickname in the race recaps. :lol:

[speedpimp]

Fud's crack rock, who came up with that shit?

[Rikadyn]

freshman year of high school join this cesspit, remember cause i got bitched at for surfing it during class time in the computer lab

[speedpimp]

And your now a freshman in college.

[21Kid]

Each time I read this thread title I think of the Croods

I...Have...An...IDEA!!!
https://www.afrugalfriend.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Croods-Sunglasses.jpg

[Rikadyn]

And your now a freshman in college.

5th year senior thank you very much...

[Crazed_Insanity]

Wow, so young!

Who's the youngest around here?

[GreatScawt]

Still better than Facebook. :up: :up:

Something something Twilight...

[Cam]

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[GB]

:up::toast:

[Godson]

:lol: best post ever

[speedpimp]

:up:

[Rare White Ape]

Put your hand up if you've changed your haircut since the '90s.

Cam doesn't have to participate if he dun want to.

[thesameguy]

Twice!

[Cam]

I shaved my head long before it was cool. I'm still shaving my head after it is no longer cool. :hard:

[LHutton]

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http://www.carthrottle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/2jZlol.jpg

[Kchrpm]

With NAS :up:

[GB]

:sing: I've changed my hairstyle so many times now
I don't know WHAT I look like.

[G'day Mate]

I've gone back to my 90s haircut (or lack thereof), but now I also have a beard.

[Rare White Ape]

Mine wanders between neat and tidy, to CBF'd, to REALLY CBF'd, to #2 all over.

Today I'm at CBF'd, but this weekend it'll go back to neat and tidy.

[CudaMan]

Cam brings up a classic. :up:

I'm just glad my wardrobe has changed since then! *shudder*

[21Kid]

What about job changes since then. :eek:

Some of us have become professional race-car drivers thanks to this game/community...
Others are rocket/nuclear/dam engineers, Simpsons artists, attorneys, and QC Manager for a top 10 mortgage lender. :lol:

We're a pretty smart bunch. I'm lumping myself in with you guys. ;)
*lots of engineers... I don't even know 1/100 of what everyone does.

[Cam]

Simpsons artists

*ahem* Only one of us was a Simpsons artist. :finger:

[Random]

*ahem* Only one of us was a Simpsons artist. :finger:

I raced against a car signed by a Simpsons artist (ish)! :D

[George]

So who else is in the MR2 pic besides Cam, who I recognized from his Xbox avatar (seriously! - that must be his daily uniform or a picture that everyone but me knows him by) and CudaMan? And which one is CM? The guy who looks like he's from New Jersey? I only say that because the other two aren't wearing anything that would make someone shudder, at least not IMO, but one is wearing something shiny. :lol:


I don't even know 1/100 of what everyone does.

Professionally speaking, this is me right now:

http://carboncostume.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/lebowski.jpg

[speedpimp]

In the hatch are Nigel and Chris. Left side is Cuda aka Bryan Heitkotter, right side is the guy from Right Said Fred.

[Cam]

I'm a model. You know what I mean?

[21Kid]

On the catwalk?

[Cam]

On the catwalk, yeah.

And I shake my little tush on the catwalk.

[Rare White Ape]

I thought it was Peter Garrett.

(Seriously, this band was massive in Australia in its heyday)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE

[speedpimp]

Or Chris Slade(former drummer for AC/DC).


Midnight Oil guy always reminded me of the head mutant in The Hills Have Eyes.

[SkylineObsession]

16 years for me, June (?) 2000. A lot of us, especially me, would prefer to forget about the Mustang-man years though. *groan* :smh:

But yeah, it is pretty cool that we've mostly all hung around for this amount of time, a lot of forums have been and gone in the years but we obviously have something that they didn't...

[Leon]

I was a viewer at Gamehunter, but I didn't sign on until the next forum, at I think age 25? Now 43 ...

[pl8ster]

Well, I joined just after my son was born in 1999, and he's a year away from heading to college...

Man.

Whatever happened to our CT bretheren - MegaNuke and CTJ?

[George]

I was also Class Of '99 at this nuthouse. Roofer was too, as I recall, and I think perhaps Taimar as well. How do I remember this stuff but none of the important things in life?

Back then when the internet was fresh and new, somehow the Join Date at at forum seemed really important - and no thanks to all the Dec '98 cool kids who kept bullying us newbies at Kenji's place.

[tcheph]

Well, I joined just after my son was born in 1999, and he's a year away from heading to college...

Man.

Whatever happened to our CT bretheren - MegaNuke and CTJ?


gunmetal
gm
notgm
tcheph

here. signed on at gamehunter in 98/99 right after i got married, and hung around for quite a while but left a few years ago.

hey everyone.

[Kchrpm]

Welcome, G/\/\.

[Phil_SS]

Welcome back Sir Loomalot!

I see you on Xbox Live but I wonder if that is you or Cam* playing Destiny?

*Cam is tcheph's son's name.

[Cam]

:eek:

Nice to see you. :)

[Godson]

GM!!

[pl8ster]

gunmetal
gm
notgm
tcheph

here. signed on at gamehunter in 98/99 right after i got married, and hung around for quite a while but left a few years ago.

hey everyone.

You forgot Bolus.

Signed,
Dipsomaniac

[tcheph]

Welcome back Sir Loomalot!

I see you on Xbox Live but I wonder if that is you or Cam* playing Destiny?

*Cam is tcheph's son's name.

cam got in to a math/science boarding school near chicago, and i wouldn't let him take the consoles with him.

that's me. all the time.

[21Kid]

Welcome back! :)

Now we have to wonder what tcheph means... :erm:

[Random]

Have a German friend pronounce "Jeff." :)

[novicius]

Gunz! :D

Have you figured out if the world tastes like Willy Wonka's garden to bears and other omnivores yet? ;)

[LHutton]

I thought it was Peter Garrett.
Don't steal his sunshine.

[drew]

Holy crap!


You still doing wireless shtuff?

I'm in Florida at the moment, in between gigs.

[pl8ster]

He *is* wireless stuff.

[2ndMoparMan]

Wow. Think GM's party was the first one I went to, so far back...

[Alan P]

Whatever happened to Spinwheelz? And I'm sure he had a buddy as well, I just can't remember his name! Didn;t we have a lady who was considering buying an NSX as well? Moved to Alaska I think. Hazy memory of Ellandria or something?

[21Kid]

:lol:




Is that supposed to be a April fools joke?
(you do know that was Nigel, right?)

[Kchrpm]

Ellandria was Nigel? Crap, I am forgetting GTXF history, now I think I knew Ellandria was fake but I didn't know who it was?

[21Kid]

Oh shit! Did I just out him? :lol: Maybe I should edit my comment... :P

[drew]

He *is* wireless stuff.

Indeed. He is everything, and he is nothing. The Alpha, and the Omega. :finger:


Whatever happened to Spinwheelz? And I'm sure he had a buddy as well, I just can't remember his name! Didn;t we have a lady who was considering buying an NSX as well? Moved to Alaska I think. Hazy memory of Ellandria or something?

Dez is still around, elsewhere. I've not spoken to him proper in quite a while. He came to Chicago in 2011 and we caught up. Hi buddy was Alan ("oz", crazy Brit, married to an equally crazy German (Micky).


What I'm having a hard time believing, is that it's been 15 years since our UK/Scotland adventure.

[GB]

gunmetal here.

Holy Shnikeys

[Phil_SS]

What I'm having a hard time believing, is that it's been 15 years since our UK/Scotland adventure.

I was just thinking about that the other day. :)

I thought the chick that wanted to buy the NSX was Lime. She attended a couple of the NEGTP parties.

[Cam]

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[Tom Servo]

I was also Class Of '99 at this nuthouse. Roofer was too, as I recall, and I think perhaps Taimar as well. How do I remember this stuff but none of the important things in life?

Back then when the internet was fresh and new, somehow the Join Date at at forum seemed really important - and no thanks to all the Dec '98 cool kids who kept bullying us newbies at Kenji's place.

Wait, were you at Kenji's for that one? Did we actually meet many, many years ago?

Mind blown.

[George]

No.

When I said "Kenji's place" I meant the original forum he hosted. Sorry if that sounded like I meant something else. That wasn't my intention.

[overpowered]

I was also Class Of '99 at this nuthouse. Roofer was too, as I recall, and I think perhaps Taimar as well. How do I remember this stuff but none of the important things in life?

Back then when the internet was fresh and new, somehow the Join Date at at forum seemed really important - and no thanks to all the Dec '98 cool kids who kept bullying us newbies at Kenji's place.New to you. I started using email and USENET on the Internet in 1986. The web had not been invented yet at that time. There were a lot of people using it before me.

[speedpimp]

And Al Gore used it before you to upload dot matrix nekkid pics of Tipper.

[speedpimp]

And Duds is back as well.

[Tom Servo]

No.

When I said "Kenji's place" I meant the original forum he hosted. Sorry if that sounded like I meant something else. That wasn't my intention.

Ahh, that makes sense. Rats, would have been cool to find out I'd met you in person at some point and didn't realize it.