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04-02-2008, 06:11 PM
It is official. This is my 1,000th post on this message board...and it only took me almost seven years...hopefully, that says a lot about the quality of my posts.
My, how the time has flown.
I have been around for the best of times...and for the worst of times.
I was only 14 years old when I joined AGN. I did a search on CNET for a Zelda clone, and Zelda Classic popped up. I played random quests for a couple of months before I joined the ranks. Being so young, I made a lot of stupid posts...I had no idea how forum communities really worked, and it was about five minutes before I was being made fun of.
But I learned quickly, and rapidly became a contributing member of the community.
Here are some of the funniest moments I remember:
Master Hacker -
Dark Nation registered this username and convinced loads of newbies that he had hacked DN's computer and downloaded the newest beta of Zelda Classic. He told everyone to just right click it and save it to their harddrive, but the Zelda Classic community members were SO loyal, that they SERIOUSLY would not do so. If they had, they would have seen that the filename was "donttellanyonethatiamreallydarknation.exe." Eckels, in one of his most well known posts, said, "Master Hacker is a pussy." Funny shit.
Darunia -
Darunia LOVED his post count. In fact, the forum "Forum Games" had just come into being, and Darunia gathered a few thousand posts in just a couple of weeks. Warlord decided the forum was being abused, and changed it so that it would not increase your post count. Darunia freaked the fuck out.
TSA -
The race to 10,000 posts. For some reason, it was REALLY important to him...he HAD to be first. Once he got really close, Warlord did some pruning...so TSA freaked the fuck out also. When he finally hit 10,000, he convinced myself and others that he was not even a real person...that he was a college project studying internet communities.
Glenn the Great -
http://www.glennthegreat.ytmnd.com/
http://www.glenthegreatremix.ytmnd.com/
Need I say more? Glenn REALLY dislikes AGN, mostly because of Breaker. He was a part of "the ZCN trio"... It was a group of people that tried to move Zelda Classic away from AGN because of "how things were run around here." Needless to say...it failed miserably. All hail Warlord and Phantom Menace.
Zelda64Gld -
I still to this day do not know if he was originally staff controlled or not. All I know is that his posts were fucking hilarious...and his Mr. Driller avatar will live down in infamy.
lightning-z, fira -
More users that will just never get over this place...if they could speak proper English, they probably would be accepted. But AGN is not the place to post without knowing how to type and spell properly.
That is all I got for now, but if this thread stays alive I might post some more later.
Anyways, now I am 21 years old. I am out on my own, living with my wife, driving a sweet ass car...I love my current job, and plan on possibly returning to school soon. AGN has definitely been a big part of 1/3 of my life...and I will forever appreciate this place. It will always be my internet home. I have gathered some great friends along the way, and I look forward to getting to know more and more "interesting" people.
I know a few things for sure...(History lesson for newbies.)
1. Warlord and Phantom Menace are legends.
2. SB owns my soul, and anyone else who resides here.
3. Aside from Jesus Christ, Eckels is my God. (Another old joke.)
4. Breaker is cool and funny as fuck...he just does not put up with anyone's shit, and I respect him for that.
5. Glenn is a douchbag.
Here is to seven more years and 1,000 more posts, guys.
My, how the time has flown.
I have been around for the best of times...and for the worst of times.
I was only 14 years old when I joined AGN. I did a search on CNET for a Zelda clone, and Zelda Classic popped up. I played random quests for a couple of months before I joined the ranks. Being so young, I made a lot of stupid posts...I had no idea how forum communities really worked, and it was about five minutes before I was being made fun of.
But I learned quickly, and rapidly became a contributing member of the community.
Here are some of the funniest moments I remember:
Master Hacker -
Dark Nation registered this username and convinced loads of newbies that he had hacked DN's computer and downloaded the newest beta of Zelda Classic. He told everyone to just right click it and save it to their harddrive, but the Zelda Classic community members were SO loyal, that they SERIOUSLY would not do so. If they had, they would have seen that the filename was "donttellanyonethatiamreallydarknation.exe." Eckels, in one of his most well known posts, said, "Master Hacker is a pussy." Funny shit.
Darunia -
Darunia LOVED his post count. In fact, the forum "Forum Games" had just come into being, and Darunia gathered a few thousand posts in just a couple of weeks. Warlord decided the forum was being abused, and changed it so that it would not increase your post count. Darunia freaked the fuck out.
TSA -
The race to 10,000 posts. For some reason, it was REALLY important to him...he HAD to be first. Once he got really close, Warlord did some pruning...so TSA freaked the fuck out also. When he finally hit 10,000, he convinced myself and others that he was not even a real person...that he was a college project studying internet communities.
Glenn the Great -
http://www.glennthegreat.ytmnd.com/
http://www.glenthegreatremix.ytmnd.com/
Need I say more? Glenn REALLY dislikes AGN, mostly because of Breaker. He was a part of "the ZCN trio"... It was a group of people that tried to move Zelda Classic away from AGN because of "how things were run around here." Needless to say...it failed miserably. All hail Warlord and Phantom Menace.
Zelda64Gld -
I still to this day do not know if he was originally staff controlled or not. All I know is that his posts were fucking hilarious...and his Mr. Driller avatar will live down in infamy.
lightning-z, fira -
More users that will just never get over this place...if they could speak proper English, they probably would be accepted. But AGN is not the place to post without knowing how to type and spell properly.
That is all I got for now, but if this thread stays alive I might post some more later.
Anyways, now I am 21 years old. I am out on my own, living with my wife, driving a sweet ass car...I love my current job, and plan on possibly returning to school soon. AGN has definitely been a big part of 1/3 of my life...and I will forever appreciate this place. It will always be my internet home. I have gathered some great friends along the way, and I look forward to getting to know more and more "interesting" people.
I know a few things for sure...(History lesson for newbies.)
1. Warlord and Phantom Menace are legends.
2. SB owns my soul, and anyone else who resides here.
3. Aside from Jesus Christ, Eckels is my God. (Another old joke.)
4. Breaker is cool and funny as fuck...he just does not put up with anyone's shit, and I respect him for that.
5. Glenn is a douchbag.
Here is to seven more years and 1,000 more posts, guys.