Can someone remind me why so many of us old timers joined Peeg’s back in 2001?
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I can’t remember. I don’t think it was that. Maybe it switched over from something else.
Your join date is the first time you logged in after the site migrated to the rivals system.
I remembering being a member of "Peegs IU Hoop news". in 1997 when I first found the site. And idk to answer your question.
'98. Site wasn't blocked by the company I worked for.
Took forever to load though. Bring back thread view.
With dial up, every click had to be planned. Thread view definitely helped. (NT)
Took 30 seconds to refresh the page everytime to see where Jared Jeffries chose to play. IU or Duke.. Computer lab at school.. Finally, after a 1 minute refresh, the front page says "It's official, Jeffries is a Hoosier". Let's just say everyone turned their attention to me those next 10 seconds vbg
Yeah - I feel like I might be in the group that pre-dated peegs on the Indy star board. I went to peegs for a long time. There was a spell where Smeagel ran a board that looked a lot like this one, and that went away too.
I got my first comp xmas 1997... Earliest memories were Jeffries upcoming as a soph, names like Jeff Treadway, Bert Klassen?? Dennis Coutee, bunch of names that never had the chance as upperclassmen. Also pics of the athleticism coming in Kei Madison, Jeffrey Newton, Leach, reaching out to a very green Dirk Nowitzin(6'7" 187
lbs being pushed around. Georgia was kickin his tires also). Jeffries, Owens , Moye & Roberts in the fold. Blake Stepp told no. etc
I think goat is right though. So many of us have an 01 start date that is Oct or nov
Damn straight!
Thread view is infinitely better than topic view. Unless you were/are irredeemably lazy thread view allowed you to “title” each response, which led to great creativity and, frequently, hilarity. And, you could see “sub-threads” so you could avoid sections where a thread veered off on something stupid or commie, like s******.
Or an Rmkfan breakdown of a 45 point loss
RMKFAN was the best.
Yup. Crazy to think how much energy and activity there was then on the bball boards. Where’s mike Davis. Was a lot of fun
I first found Peegs in 98 or 99. At first I came in as a guest. I don't join things quickly
RMKFAN1, please.
Peegs published a firefighters style calendar with all of the site employees....and it drove in business
Correct. I miss iu basketball. There was some real sports entertainment. The jordan years. Iu and all the drama. Xavi iniesta and Messi after ronaldinho. Now there’s really no sports I get excited about or read about
I had several arguments with him. The Sun Tsu substitution situation most notably. I met Jack at yogi's on a couple occasions. A very nice guy.
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Thread view really is missed. It was far easier to avoid the crazed rabbit holes.
I got my MS in Information Systems in 1993, so I had a personal computer since 1991 and was on the original IU board about that time. Star News Forum, then moved on to the predecessor boards that eventually ended up being Peegs. Went to a Jeffersonville High School game with Peegs when IU was interested in a player there.
Yeah I came here from the Star News forum as well, but that name got banned for some reason during the Davis era so my start date is 2007.
Now that I think about it, I didn't get into the Star News Forum until I was in Japan in 1993. I was Hoosier in Japan or HinJ at the time.
I joined in 2000. First posts were an argument with Rockfish and Buzz about the war on drugs. Then along came Bush v. Gore. That was great fun for lawyers. But for B v. G I might have disappeared into the sunset.
I got offered a job by bush’s lawyer in all that. He was also the lead guy who initiated the lawsuit in the billion dollar Rothstein Ponzi scheme
I think it's just age man. I don't get excited about any team at this point. I used to hang on every IU basketball/Colts/Pacers tidbit. Now, hardly know when they play.
I will watch NBA basketball though. Golden era right now.
I thought someone said you were Ironworks back then. Is that not accurate?
No it’s the cluster of people who all got on around the same time we were trying to figure out. Oct/nov 01
I'll never forget his pregame 'analysis' of a FB game against Wisconsin where they rung up over 60 points on us.
I'm not sure he posted on the FB board after that.
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