Reminiscing Neowin

[Rappy Veteran]

I don't remember alot of these people, never really got active till around 07/08

The 8m thread with everyone who took part had over 300 posts each in one day :rofl:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I was a lurker for the first five years on here as well and became more active in 2006/2007 - first as subscriber (yay Club Orange), then as an IRC mod.

The circumstances of my demotion from staff are nothing I can discuss in public; they did make me consider leaving the site for good. In the end the loyalty to the community prevailed.

And Rappy: I remember the spamfests of old. Good lord, what were we thinking..

[Si Veteran]

I imagine a lot of us are still around - life unfortunately has a way of consuming free time as you get older so less time for posting, but plenty of time for keeping up with the news!

[Steven P. Administrators]

I'd never met any Pedophiles before I signed up to Neowin. Really, any of you guys remember Larney? He was quite a prominent member years ago and then he was arrested for abusing two boys. Then another three Neowin members who I was introduced to through Larney including BOFH, Wetlegs and InfoByte (1 of them who was a very active poster) also turned out to be Pedophiles, all four members (which includes Larney) are banned now but I know one of them signed up again with a new username.

I even helped him pick out Hard Disks for his computer and helped him RAID them. No doubt he stored child pornography on them as the police investigation showed he and others did stuff like that.

Gotta say, that whole experience has definitely jaded me from talking to other members of the site offline. It still shocks me to think how many members on here I met that were involved in that kind of stuff, practically 50% of the people I met off the site are pedophiles.

Those weren't staff and you're talking about the same group of people (that hung out together). I agree though it was :s

As for your stat, it's a shame but you just met the wrong people.

[reliabletop]

this is the first time see it.how old it is?

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

http://web.archive.o...www.neowin.net/

2001 Neowin! :o haha

Love this headline

Win2k: To Deploy or not to Deploy @ ZDnet

Haha.

[Haggis Veteran]

I been around since 2006 just browsing the forms then eventually decided to sign up, only really became active recently though but getting dragged in deeper and deeper lol

just passed my 5 yr mark 2 months ago

[Vice]

Those weren't staff and you're talking about the same group of people (that hung out together). I agree though it was :s

As for your stat, it's a shame but you just met the wrong people.

I never said they were staff lol

But I have told the staff here about one of them who signed up again, in-fact I told two members of staff, nothing ever done about it though.

[Rappy Veteran]

And Rappy: I remember the spamfests of old. Good lord, what were we thinking..