Where were you before the Escapist?

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HillDragon

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Lost.

I'd only ever post on a speciality forum before I was drawn in by the lack of puncuation around these parts... You could say I came for the cake and stayed for the party.
 

Ambi

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The first website I joined was Quizilla, when I was thirteen. I kept visiting it for the few who frequented there and wrote interesting journal entries, then they changed it to a crappy layout and all the interesting people left.

The first forum I frequented was christianforums.com back in 2007. It was kind of dorky with the "blessings" system which you bought clothes for your avatar with and cute little emoticons. People could have little icons next to their name representing their country, gender, marital status, and religion. It was interesting seeing how fickle some people were with their religions. There were some interesting people, and I got to know people by their distinctive posting style and observing the relationships they had with other members.

There was this massive drama where a whole lot of people got banned for no reason and parents thought the Teens section was corrupting the minds of their kids or something, so we moved to "CFTiE" (Christian Forums Teens in Exile), which was on a free forum site, and then to a website one of the members made called christianteenforums.com, then to collegetalkspot.com.

I've also been a member of 64digits for a while, although I never really knew anything about GM. I just wrote and read blogs, mostly. I used to be there every day messaging this guy from the U.S. I got to know well, then... yeah, I only go there to lurk or leave the occasional blog comment nowadays.

This isn't counting the common websites like youtube and facebook.
 

Bazamm

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I signed up to the Unforgotten Realms forums at the tender age of 10, and was shown the Escapist by my cousin at the age of 12 and a bit. I only signed up for the forums recently though, before i would just browse through the videos and attempt to read the articles.
 

Nemu

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I never really posted on any game forums unless they were specific to the games I was playing.

About a decade ago I went to an old CS-centric site, that was akin to this one (random topics, entertainment threads, et al), but it was DEFINITELY a man-cave of a forum. It's been so long since I've been there, I forgot the name (granted, I only went there to shut up a friend who kept asking me to post there). lol


//Edit//

After my curiosity was piqued, I went a-looking for my friend. The forum name's changed, but the people are the same, pathetic.

leetforum.com (when I hung out there, it was called theforumz.com)
 

Tharwen

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I was actually gaming. That seems to have stopped since I gave all my time to this site.
 

Leviathan_

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The World in Conflict forum on massgate.net, lightly moderated and lots of trolls/drama. Still go there almost on a daily basis.
 

Zombie_Fish

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I originally came from a site called Super Cheats [http://www.supercheats.com/]. It was a small gaming website that I joined in 2006 to help out people in regards to various games, offering hints etc. I discovered the forums there quite a while after joining and I was particularly fond of some of the Need For Speed forums they had for the Gamecube (they had different forums for different games on different consoles), where it was a pretty small group of nice people.

I left the forums at some point in 2007 because I was simply getting bored of it; they changed the forums around so that there would be one forum for a game across multiple platforms and the forums I visited regularly weren't quite the same again, they had increased greatly in size as the PS2 forums merged with the Gamecube ones and that simply made me decide to call it quits. I can see why they decided to merge them, the forums were taking up lots of space and some of the forums (like the Need for Speed: Carbon for Gamecube one) were beginning to die, but I just didn't like the end result. At round about the same point in time I got bored of the site in general and just put it behind me.
 

TheYellowCellPhone

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I was on YouTube, but oddly enough I never made an account there until later, after I joined the Escapist. Probably the lack of forums and moderators.

But anyway, a usergroup I watched (they actually were an abridged making usergroup) had one person do a Zero-Punctuation style tagged video. He linked the Escapist here, and I joined here later.
 

Edorf

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World of Warcraft forums... I'm still there, not much going on there (and on the forums there IS something going on, it's just too much going on)
 

TimeLord

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I was on Bolter snd Chainsword for a while.

Between that and the Escapist I sat in a void of nothingness containing Guitar Hero and schoolwork.
 

The DSM

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Used to go on Bungie.net before the mods started banning me for no reason,then I moved here.

Really, I asked someone to edit a post as it might offend someone, and I got banned...
 

Spinozaad

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So many. I tend to drift a lot. From Star Wars fan communities to scholieren.com where I'm serving two consecutive 15-year bans. :')

Also been a member on wtf.com (yeah, it exists).

And many other forums forgotten by both the internet and myself.
 

arcade109

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I came from IGN. It used to be real active but now barely anyone is on there and it's full of spammers.
 

imnot

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i was at eddsworld, but it was really slow and not much disscusion happened, i came here for ZP
and stayed, well for ZP.