Do you ever look at your entry date here on this board...2003 (ME) and do the math and say...WTH? Damn I'm old? Just curious.
For us OLD people...
- Thread starter *CatinIL*
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Nonsense, I'm just getting started bro
I clicked on this thread, even though I’m NOT old. 
I just checked and it seems I’ve been on this site just one month short of 20 years. Yikes! Of course my total time is more like 28 years. I started out on Wildcat Chat. That site run by Steve, Babs, Darrell and Keith. Not sure how many folks remember that. I think that site changed ownership a couple times until it wound up here.
I just checked and it seems I’ve been on this site just one month short of 20 years. Yikes! Of course my total time is more like 28 years. I started out on Wildcat Chat. That site run by Steve, Babs, Darrell and Keith. Not sure how many folks remember that. I think that site changed ownership a couple times until it wound up here.
Hell, I don't need to look at my sign up date to realize that I have gotten old..........my joints popping every time I get up or sit down is a reminder......
Got on this one in 2002 but was on old site before that for several years. I can't remember exactly but had to re join or something and caused the New join date of 2002.
Only 14 years for me. Had about 2 years previous under a different name, but mostly just lurking for any sweet Gillispie recruiting tidbits.
So just about a third of my life with you bozos.
So just about a third of my life with you bozos.
I think so. I think some of those folks are on the KY Sports Report…if that site still exists. I haven’t checked lately.I clicked on this thread, even though I’m NOT old.
I just checked and it seems I’ve been on this site just one month short of 20 years. Yikes! Of course my total time is more like 28 years. I started out on Wildcat Chat. That site run by Steve, Babs, Darrell and Keith. Not sure how many folks remember that. I think that site changed ownership a couple times until it wound up here.
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I started out on the LHL forums I think around 1996, and have also been at the Microtek, Wildcat Chat, Wildcat Faithful, Lair, Catpaw, Kentucky Sports Report and now Cat Illustrations since 2003.
Yeah, I feel like 2002 is just a few years ago and then realize, ITS 20. Yikes
I was on the original Wildcats Lair when it was owned by a husband and wife. That was literally at the beginning of when the internet became common use and was the wild wild west. You could find just about anything out there at that time. I AM getting old.
I am old, even though I got a little later start on here than a lot of you guys.
I had a ton of internet pron to get through first. Then I found this place.
I had a ton of internet pron to get through first. Then I found this place.
Still pissed about losing a few years on my registration after a computer crash. It says I've been around since 2003, but I know it is a lot longer than that. I remember having to log into the site (or its predecessor) with a dial tone at the Gatton school of business in '96 ish. Da*n. Now I do feel old!
I clicked on this thread, even though I’m NOT old.
I just checked and it seems I’ve been on this site just one month short of 20 years. Yikes! Of course my total time is more like 28 years. I started out on Wildcat Chat. That site run by Steve, Babs, Darrell and Keith. Not sure how many folks remember that. I think that site changed ownership a couple times until it wound up here.
Great memory! I had forgotten the names and all, but u r exactly right. Not only do i now feel old, but I realize how bad my memory is fading!
August 2001 and before that I was CrumsBaldSpot but my password got messed up during a transition and I had to recreate it. So I am thinking 98-99.
Was on all of those also. I remember dialing up that internet on AOL curious to see why folks like Jeff Drummond and Mel (WCC) - RIP had to say.
Speaking of old, that was before apps and smartphones. You literally had to wait until you got home from your job/school and sign-on from a personal computer while hoping no one tried to use the land line phone..
I was on “here” before here was here. 2 incarnations of here ago IIRC.
A marriage and 3 houses ago.
A marriage and 3 houses ago.
Internet porn during dialup.
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Im so old I remember some old dude posting Useless Trivia every Friday.
Anyone remember the old CNNSI boards? Talk about a cesspool. A bit different than the one here though. This place has been rendered damn near unreadable by the political loonies, but CNNSI was good entertainment in the mid-late 90s. No political wingnuts to hijack every thread. Just good, old-fashioned rivalry ****-talking, with maybe some personal threats and a couple dox's mixed in. Even the systems operator quit moderating it and joined into the ****-throwing himself.
Wait, that counted as foreplay right?
I used to tell my ex the old line about “30 minutes of begging counts as foreplay.”
key word Ex. I screwed that all up.
I retired and I'm not looking at a computer screen for 9 hours a day. Maybe I can figure a day/morning to do it again.
Yea, that dude's a slacker...
Even before posting on the Wildcat Chat site, my first go ‘round on a basketball discussion forum was on Hoop Scoop dot com. Must have been about 1993 or 94? Saw it advertised on the back of the old Cats’ Pause news paper. That forum was open to fans of all teams, and most users picked a screen name that identified their team and their location. I did the same, and just kept the same user name when I moved on to UK only sites.
I'm almost 17 years in paying for this subscription. I still remember the day I made that commitment.
but most you guys are great 
Still got the email from January 7, 2003. Had signed up previously, but can't remember when.
Thank you for signing up as a User on the AllianceSports.com Network!
Your username is: <redacted>
Your password is: <redacted>
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Your nickname (handle) is: AustinTXCat
If you would like to change your username and password you may go to http://kentucky.rivals.com/useropts.asp
Thank you for signing up as a User on the AllianceSports.com Network!
Your username is: <redacted>
Your password is: <redacted>
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Your nickname (handle) is: AustinTXCat
If you would like to change your username and password you may go to http://kentucky.rivals.com/useropts.asp
And when you clicked on another web page, you could go put some laundry on, take a shower or fix something to eat and maybe when you got back the page would be loaded.
I think that was the board I was one when we came from 17 down to beat Dook, and there was some dude (can't remember what team he was a fan of) who had been talking **** the entire game but lost his mind in a profanity laced tirade when we came back for the win.
My registration on this site is one of the first 20 people or so in the entire network because I transferred over from AllianceSports where I was one of the first handful of official content contributors for a team site in 1996. Was involved with some other sites before that …going back to the early 90’s.
”The World's First Network of College Team and Recruiting Sites. The forerunner of Rivals.com, AllianceSports became an Internet sports pioneer, establishing the very first premium subscription-based network of college team and recruiting sites.
Along with the first national prospect database in 1996, AllianceSports established a precedent by providing in-depth daily college sports and recruiting coverage that was unmatched on the Internet and in traditional media outlets. The quality of information published on a daily basis and the rapidly growing message board communities established AllianceSports as one of the Internet's fastest growing sports media properties and "stickiest" sites.”
”The World's First Network of College Team and Recruiting Sites. The forerunner of Rivals.com, AllianceSports became an Internet sports pioneer, establishing the very first premium subscription-based network of college team and recruiting sites.
Along with the first national prospect database in 1996, AllianceSports established a precedent by providing in-depth daily college sports and recruiting coverage that was unmatched on the Internet and in traditional media outlets. The quality of information published on a daily basis and the rapidly growing message board communities established AllianceSports as one of the Internet's fastest growing sports media properties and "stickiest" sites.”
This is like the 4th or 5th generation of UK message boards since dialup. AOL and something else I can’t recall because I’ve been on them for too many years started it for me. Heard that ding, ding, ding, boing, boing, boing way too many times not to count the wasted loading time.
Anyone remember newsgroups? Good times. XD
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.basketball.college/c/YY_q_Gi3zsc/m/cHUGOiVHF3kJ
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.basketball.college/c/YY_q_Gi3zsc/m/cHUGOiVHF3kJ
I vividly remember being on there in 1997 because there were a few ******* Arizona fans that we feuded with during the season. So that was a rough loss to take. I'm sure I was on there in 98 but don't recall any banter that year. I know U of L psycho MeccaCards was around because he melted down when he got doxxed and threatened to sue everyone. There was some crazy **** that went down on those boards.
Yes. alt.sports.college.sec.kentucky seemed quite active during the late-90s - early-2000s. Couple posters there hated Coach Tubby Smith.
I changed my username in 2007 and that is my official sign up date now. I was on 5 or 6 years before that but seldom posted as most of my time was spent on Wildcat Faithful. Then Mel died and that was the end of that for me.
@TruBluCatFan...@HymanKaplan I might bring it back next Wednesday. Retirement has me in a position where I'm not staring at a computer screen 9 hours a day. But Wednesday mornings may be the way to go.
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