nastalgia

[AcdQueen89]

i'm avoiding hw and i started looking through old papers and crap that i have that i somehow brought to school (i know reasonings behind maybe a third of it).

i have like 70 pages of stuff i printed up about a UV movie script/book i was writing at one point (i think i have just under 20 pages of movie script written and various/random book pages started) and one paper clipped bunch that i found was a thread about our pasts as individuals on the forum. instead of giggling like a little school girl and reading it by myself, why dont we remember the village's history together? (especially since we have new and bungied people with us now)

what was included in the original thread various name evolutions and stories about how the village was found.

any takers?

[karategoldfish]

what do you mean? now i'm curious to read this old thread you found.

i found the village, not because i was interested in Fallout, but because i was interested in maxstone (who hasn't really been around for a while). we dated for a little while, then decided we weren't really meant for each other. anyway we both stuck around, and here i am, 6-7 years later, married and living 500 miles away from where i used to be in memphis, tn.

the first board i visited was the black and yellow board from long ago. man there were some funny people there. we used to icq chat or irc chat until 4am sometimes. now that i'm a working stiff, i can't do that stuff anymore!

also, is nastalgia like a nasty version of nostalgia? hehe.

[Solwyn]

I found the forum through Fernis, with whom I went to school. He's the one who got me into The Realm and Fallout. My brother became addicted to Fallout so I didn't get to play much on our shared computer, but when I did I figured it'd be fun to learn more about the game. So I posted a few times (I don't remember what my online handle was, either Lightning_Wolf or Paladin (which like five million other people used online, so I abandoned it shortly there after)).  I couldn't keep up with the old format of bulletin boards that went down like eight million pixels, and eventually wandered off, discovering things like the outdoors and girls.

But at some point I moved about 80 miles East, and he moved about 650 miles North, so both of us kinda wandered away from the online culture. I came back when I graduated college and got married, and heard about Fallout 3 coming out, I figured I had more in common with the villagers than most of my college friends who were still in school and too busy to hang out.

That's all I can tell ya.

[AcdQueen89]

kg -

i actually didnt read much of what i had printed. i just know turjan had something interesting to say. (i think one of his posts took up most of a page)

[Petrarch]

I came here via the Interplay boards back in 2000. Was actually new to the internet at the time as well - back in those days there was no broadband and we all had to use string and bean cans instead - and next year will make 9 years I've been around. Originally I used the nick of Paladin, largely because it means the same as my real name does, but after about 2-3 years I dumped it and swapped to Petrarch, which has stuck ever since.

The old black and yellow board was the first one I appeared at. I was one of the admins for 5 years (with some breaks here and there when things got a bit too much back in reality) across the various incarnations until I eventually got fed up with it and retired. Looking back at all the web politics and flak we had to fly through, you couldn't pay me to do that again. I've also had the pleasure of meeting 2 of the UV, Doombot and much more recently Hoopy. Karate gets a special mention as she was the first person to hear me speaking, as does Turjan, the first person I met here and there's not been so much as an angry word between either of us after all these years.

Made friends, lost friends, made mistakes, but I'm still here, albeit in the background.

[Jeff]

10 years, almost exactly 10 years since I discovered the village while surfing the Fallout2 boards at work.

Jesus, hard to believe. I've only stuck around because I have a serious crush on Hoopy. He's dreamy.

[Hoopy Frood]

10 years, almost exactly 10 years since I discovered the village while surfing the Fallout2 boards at work.

Jesus, hard to believe. I've only stuck around because I have a serious crush on Hoopy. He's dreamy.

I understand. I am damn sexy after all.

And I've been here about a month less than Petrarch (He was January 2K, I was February 2K). I believe Turjan showed up about a month or two before him, if I remember previous discussions accurately.

[Ymir]

Well, back in my day, when young people knew their place and respect for their elders, and we used to have walk 50 miles to school through the snow over broken glass, then lick the road clean...

Where was I?

I have no idea when I joined - it was sson after the relesae of the game. I think I did an internet search for "Fallout" and found the board, though I also spent time on the Interplay boards.

Suffice to say, spending time with the people here has been (for the most part) an honour. Drinks on Owl's tab!

Cheers

[Bubonic]

I migrated here from the Interplay board shortly before the release of Fallout 2 (which would put it around 1998 I think).  I saw Lerk, Doombot and Buffy talking on the FO2 board and they mentioned the village a couple of times.  If memory serves, it was a post from Buffy, combined with a moderately slow day at work which led me to actually check this place out.  I have no idea what the post said, just this amorphous feeling that it was Buffy who said it.  *shrug*

I started out calling myself "Harry, the Bunny Master" (Wasteland reference) but Love Bunny took exception so I changed it to Bubonic.  Then TSSR took exception to that, stating that he was the official rat of the UV.  I started thinking about changing my name again, but I still haven't come up with a name that I really like any better.

I left the village after the release of FO2 because of all the unannounced spoilers, but returned shortly after I had finished the game.

In their infinite wisdom, the villagers have never even considered giving me any position of power.  *evil, maniacal laugh*

The old ICQ or IRC chats used to crack me up though.

[Doombot]

Let's see...

I read the upcoming web pages from AOL about this new upcoming game called: Fallout that was going to use the Gurps license.

The game came out and I looked around the Internet for fallout related websites. All where pretty much the same, where they just copied the photos and stats from each other until one site was pretty much like the other. No Mutants Allowed was one of the exceptions in terms of high quality.

I had the Interplay book at the time and saw a recipe for rat or something like that and made a comment that someone should make a humor based site about Fallout.

Nobody did and then I thought... that someone is ME!

So I made a funny website. One of the 'First Wave' of villagers saw it. This was at the time where two villages existed and merged into one. Not like later when the villages split and then formed back again. Lerk (One of the First Wavers) made a comment about being a Unwashed Mob of villagers and I think two websites came from that post on Interplay.

Iguana Eater invited me to join the village. When I joined they had just abandoned the other site and the one I knew became official. I don't think any of the first wavers are around. Bluecross might be one. Not sure if I'm the 'oldest' here. The people that I definitely know where before me aren't here anymore. Hint Boy, Atomiq Potato...

I stuck around. Did Admin for a while. Back in those days it was mostly just clearing spam from the board and clipping the end of the HTML file when it hovered around 250 - 300K and adding a board pic at the top.

Minus a few times where work has been too busy and during my move to Hawaii, I'm been here fairly consistently.

[Ban]

I played fallout a fair while after its release and went a-searchin on the web. Being new to the whole experience and generally ignorant, I tried to get involved, but didnt really get what a forum was for. This was also at a time when there were pages upon pages of new posts every day, so I could never find anything I'd responded to.

When fallout 2 came out I bought it, and on the way home was reading the manual. The special thanks to the UV caught my eye, and I thought 'Hey, I remember that.' Tried and failed a few times to get involved again under various names... eventually figured it out and got stuck here for ever more.

[Nighthavok]

I found the UV about six months to a year before Fallout 2 came out.  And then left shortly after it's release.  It was pretty funny back then. 

Thrakazog wrote a show where he played metal guitar and killed spammers to a laugh track.
Fenris (or is it Fernis, I always forget)  and I tried to photoshop Tragic cards for the UV.
Sonofagun used to make techno songs for the UV.
Fixxxer ran a D-n-D IRC campaign with Me, Shard, Hatch, and I forget who else.
Junkyard Dog giving everyone fatherly advice and stories of Japan.

Life was so much simpler on 56k. 

[TK]

As far as I remember I first found and registered at the village in early-ish 1999, honestly can't remember what type of board it was at the time but I kind of hovered around there and lurked a fair bit but was still quite involved in the village.  Between mid to late 2000 and early 2001 I lost my internet access for a good while and incidentally missed the big split even though I saw the rumblings coming.  From 2001 to now I've been active and a lurker by turns.

When I first registered I was new to the internet and registered under my email address but soon changed it to Throwback Kid.

My most vivid memories are; the black and yellow board (was that the Gamestats one?) and the constant n/t posts, the v13 board which made us part of a larger community and was probably where I was most active and all the stories and role play elements of the early village.

[BlueCross]

I joined a long time ago and can't remember squat except that there was a bit of a fuss when I---er...  the Evil BlueCross tried to execute all the Village Females.  Geez, how sensitive can you get!

[Turjan]

I couldn't remember offhand when I became part of this bunch of miscreants, so I dug through some old data CDs until I found the earliest dated UV file I had - it turned out to be April 5th 1999...  :stunned:

And in a bizarre twist of irony given the topic of this thread, the second oldest file I could find is a copy of a post called 'Origins of the UV' written by Jay & dated 10th April 1999.

Here's how it opened -

                         Posted by Jay: Duck and Cover Webmaster
                                   Saturday, 10 April 1999, at 12:55 a.m.

I was just looking through the very very very old archives at the Interplay FO1 site... these are some great posts... because
they are the...ORIGINS OF THE UNWASHED (echo)

...next he posted some now extremely long dead links, and then finally came the closing line -

Those were just a few interesting facts for all the newbies... and memories for all of us 'senior members'

So you see, UV nostalgia was repeating itself even back then. Funny old world, huh?  :wacky: