+InsaneNutter MVC Posted March 15, 2013 MVC Share Posted March 15, 2013 I wouldn't normally post a milestone topic, however I just randomly realised that today I?ve been a member of Neowin for 10 years! I think that's worthy of a milestone post as can?t honestly say any other website I might have been participating in 10 years ago is still around today, I think the Neowin team deserves some serious praise to be honest. I?ve been visiting since I was around 15 I believe, I remember visiting the site in School, College, Uni and now work. I actually discovered Neowin more than 10 years ago, sometime back in 2001. Neowin kept getting linked to for random news about Microsoft and Windows XP betas. After ending up on the site a few times I added it to my favourites and started reading the news each day. I have probably visited Neowin most days for the last 11+ years, easily! I also got in to the Office 2003, Windows Vista and various MSN Messenger betas thanks to Neowin! It did take me well over a year to actually sign-up to Neowin as you can see, from what I remember I thought the forum were too big and that I didn't know enough about anything to participate in the discussions. I do remember why I eventually signed up however. At the time I had recently upgraded my first ever computer from a Pentium 2 @ 300mhz to an AMD Athlon XP 2200+. I wanted to know the best way to network my PC with my mates, so we could have a LAN and all have internet access at the same time. Needless to say the advice I got was spot on and I stuck about on the forums ever since, both to try help others where I can and get help with many more complex problems over the years. Anyway, I just wanted to say a big thank you to all the staff past and present for keeping the site both up and running, and ensuring it's a great place to visit! I know from running my own website it?s not always easy, especially when massive issues happen at the most inconvenient of times. I think it?s safe to say Neowin has made its mark on the internet, I?ve often found Neowin in Google search result?s when randomly looking something up, so if I didn?t find Neowin all those years ago chances are I would have sooner or later. So that?s a bit about my Neowin history, here?s to the next 10 years of Neowin!! :) Also I?ll soon be taking out a Tier 2 subscription to show my support, I figured after 10 years it?s about time! (Y) Steven P., frease, Charisma and 4 others 7 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Imagine what you could have achieved in the past 10 years if you had not found Neowin :p jk, Congrats ;) +InsaneNutter and Charisma 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruckWEB Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Cool, time does fly... 10 years ago, things where different, no tablet, no android, no Win8, .... +InsaneNutter 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyoung1616 Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 It's gone by very fast. Learned some things. Made some friends. Cody +InsaneNutter 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted March 15, 2013 Veteran Share Posted March 15, 2013 congrats! :D +InsaneNutter 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted March 16, 2013 Member Share Posted March 16, 2013 Congratulations. Being on one site for 10 years is quite an accomplishment. +InsaneNutter 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Congrats on 10 years, I'll be 10 years on Saturday and will be joining you in the milestone area! When we first joined, neowin was being shut down by Microsoft for leaking their betas of longhorn/MSN Messenger :p. cyoung1616 and +InsaneNutter 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 neowin addiction level 10 :p +InsaneNutter 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted March 20, 2013 Veteran Share Posted March 20, 2013 congrats, lets keep the neowin train going. +InsaneNutter 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charisma Veteran Posted March 20, 2013 Veteran Share Posted March 20, 2013 Congrats! Awesome :D My story was kind of similar too--found the site via Google searching, didn't sign up right away, etc. But it wasn't nearly so long ago! Thanks for being a great part of the community :D +InsaneNutter 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted March 20, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 20, 2013 What a great post and congrats on the ten plus years (Y) Hope we are around in another ten as well! +InsaneNutter, Rappy, cyoung1616 and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Veteran Posted March 20, 2013 Veteran Share Posted March 20, 2013 Congratulations! Charisma, +InsaneNutter, Steven P. and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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