How many people have to misquote me? :P
For the last time, it was 98. NOT 97. Diablo had been out for a year by the time I migrated into the online world.
All this time, and you STILL haven't corrected that typo? That's actually WORSE than the people saying I showed up in 2000 or 2001. :P
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And another thing! You have absolutely NO mention of my "Newbie Guide"! How dare you! Though it was practically nothing, IMO (compared to what it was SUPPOSED to become :P; Fortune City ate my webpage, and so the Guide died), but a great deal of people commented on it being a great resource, and it eventually fell into Landru's favored links. It started up almost 2 years after I began my tour at the DSF: sometime in the fall of 1999. I tried to do a lookup with the Wayback machine, but the earliest it had was 2001, and that was LONG after it died out. I had to go looking through some of the posts of mine I saved (like my Arty vs. Tank Mage Guide, posted in January of 2000). If I had to pinpoint exactly when, I'd say either August of 1999, or November of 1999. Maybe even October, but I'm not sure. Sometime in that general timeframe, between August and November of '99. Ask around, I'm sure SOMEONE else remembers it. Wish I could give you a better date than that, but unfortunately I hadn't yet made any backups of my site, so when it got eaten, that was it. :(
The world would be a sad place without historians.
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http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/41981
October or November it is. Most likely November. That pits it being eaten around... hell, I don't even know. ...Ok, I checked. Sometimes around May of 2000 it got eaten. Possibly June, but I'd bet May, since that's when my posting activity on my forum stopped. Which would pit it at about 6 months. Yep, that sounds about right, from memory. 6 - 7 months was how long it was up, so from about November (potentially end of October) 1999 to May (potentially, but not likely, June) of 2000. Just one more tidbit to throw into the History.
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Peter Hu. Not Peter Hughes. :P
And, under April of 2000:
Though I may be foggy on this, I came up with that idea (twice, actually, since the first time I was shot down; I think someone else came up with that idea even before me, though I don't recall who, when, or if it even happened; actually, now that I read over it, there was, at one point, a channel called "Strategy Forum", but I don't recall if it was ever officially adopted, so yeah, the idea wasn't new when I proposed it, it just wasn't an official channel, and not actually used, either), and I don't recall it being as late as 2000. Though, maybe I'm wrong. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe it WAS that late. Hmmm... Hang on, let me check my old forum.
Ok, checked. May of 2000 was the whole ac(INFERNO) scandal in the Strategy Forum channel, so yeah, I guess it was thought up in 2000. Damn, it's so hard for me to remember timeframes when this stuff all happened. Jeeze... Alright. Nevermind about that, then. :) Guess you got the right date.
For the last time, it was 98. NOT 97. Diablo had been out for a year by the time I migrated into the online world.
All this time, and you STILL haven't corrected that typo? That's actually WORSE than the people saying I showed up in 2000 or 2001. :P
Edit:
And another thing! You have absolutely NO mention of my "Newbie Guide"! How dare you! Though it was practically nothing, IMO (compared to what it was SUPPOSED to become :P; Fortune City ate my webpage, and so the Guide died), but a great deal of people commented on it being a great resource, and it eventually fell into Landru's favored links. It started up almost 2 years after I began my tour at the DSF: sometime in the fall of 1999. I tried to do a lookup with the Wayback machine, but the earliest it had was 2001, and that was LONG after it died out. I had to go looking through some of the posts of mine I saved (like my Arty vs. Tank Mage Guide, posted in January of 2000). If I had to pinpoint exactly when, I'd say either August of 1999, or November of 1999. Maybe even October, but I'm not sure. Sometime in that general timeframe, between August and November of '99. Ask around, I'm sure SOMEONE else remembers it. Wish I could give you a better date than that, but unfortunately I hadn't yet made any backups of my site, so when it got eaten, that was it. :(
The world would be a sad place without historians.
Edit 2:
http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/41981
October or November it is. Most likely November. That pits it being eaten around... hell, I don't even know. ...Ok, I checked. Sometimes around May of 2000 it got eaten. Possibly June, but I'd bet May, since that's when my posting activity on my forum stopped. Which would pit it at about 6 months. Yep, that sounds about right, from memory. 6 - 7 months was how long it was up, so from about November (potentially end of October) 1999 to May (potentially, but not likely, June) of 2000. Just one more tidbit to throw into the History.
Edit 3:
Quote:--Roland is invited to be a Diablo II beta tester by Peter Hughes.
Peter Hu. Not Peter Hughes. :P
And, under April of 2000:
Quote:--The idea is kicked around the Lurker Lounge and the DSF about making a âDSF channel.â
Though I may be foggy on this, I came up with that idea (twice, actually, since the first time I was shot down; I think someone else came up with that idea even before me, though I don't recall who, when, or if it even happened; actually, now that I read over it, there was, at one point, a channel called "Strategy Forum", but I don't recall if it was ever officially adopted, so yeah, the idea wasn't new when I proposed it, it just wasn't an official channel, and not actually used, either), and I don't recall it being as late as 2000. Though, maybe I'm wrong. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe it WAS that late. Hmmm... Hang on, let me check my old forum.
Ok, checked. May of 2000 was the whole ac(INFERNO) scandal in the Strategy Forum channel, so yeah, I guess it was thought up in 2000. Damn, it's so hard for me to remember timeframes when this stuff all happened. Jeeze... Alright. Nevermind about that, then. :) Guess you got the right date.
Roland *The Gunslinger*