When Did You Join? How Did You Find Us?

Thursday, March 13, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Since we've been around for seven years, we've seen a lot of people come and go from the userlists.  As I've said, in that time we've seen several million folks stop by long enough to create an account with us.  In those years, the composition of the community has changed greatly.  A lot of the prominent faces around today weren't here back in 2001, and a lot of the folks from 2001 have since moved on to other things.

So while everyone knows the general story and history of WinCustomize, I'd like to hear a little bit more from all of you.  When did you join the site?  How did you find us?  What brought you to the world of skinning?  Share a bit of your history as it relates to WC with the rest of the community.

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skybright
Reply #81 Friday, March 14, 2008 11:27 PM
For me it all stared with changing my cusor and discovered this site. I then wanted to change my gui, found a trial version of wb and got hooked. In Dec 2005 I purchased OD; and a week later became a member of WC. Thats how I found my new home; I can't live without you guys now.

GreatSilverWyrm
Reply #82 Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:28 AM
It was (I had to check my profile) September '02..I was tired of the standard luna variants in xp, and thought "there must be a way to change it.." Some quick googling landed me at Windowblinds website, which sent me here. The rest is.. history? I used the trial version for about 6 months until I convinced my mother (I was 14 at the time) the money was well-worth it, and I've been an OD subscriber ever since. I've been largely out of the community the past few years..but with the new version of SkinStudio, I've been thinking of coming back with a couple of Windowblinds skins I've had on the perpetual back burner.

mrs_starkers
Reply #83 Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:59 AM
I never heard of it until starkers told me about it, I thought yeah so what, it is the best place eva, cool people, and I/we have made heaps of friends.I first joined Sep 8, 2006 with the help of some lovely folks here, You know who you are, thanks

Daiwa
Reply #84 Saturday, March 15, 2008 11:40 AM
Member since April 2001 (#1313 - good thing I'm not superstitious)


July 2001. (#16184)

Look how quickly membership was growing around that time - it had just started to take off.

Ton-K300
Reply #85 Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:56 AM
It says Christmas eve 2002   in my profile but I just don't recall it   probably looking for an xmas wall or something   

JavaFiend
Reply #86 Saturday, March 15, 2008 2:34 PM
It was late 2007 for me. Actually, the movie Live Free or Die Hard got me to Stardock/Wincustomize. I saw the alienware gear for the first time. That lead to their download page, which lead to Stardock.

I guess I fell "victim" to product placement. I won't complain though!

Hawkeye666
Reply #87 Saturday, March 15, 2008 2:52 PM
Truth be told I was surfing for pr0n and when I googled "download skin" I hit upon WC.

Not really...

petrossa
Reply #88 Saturday, March 15, 2008 2:17 PM
through OD for OS/2 Warp, cant remember the date

Scarebear
Reply #89 Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:36 PM
I joined the site when I first heard about it on the skinz.org forums (when the site opened I guess). Skinz.org was imploding and this was the site most people were making the move to. I actually scattered myself on many a skin site and over the years let my accounts fade away on most sites. Sonique was what first got me into skinning. That and MPFree. Oh the skinnable applications that have died over the years.

frankell
Reply #90 Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:06 PM
Cursors XP Plus was the first application I bought and 2 years ago I browsed the CursorXP gallery every so often, only 6 months ago Googling for "perspective backgrounds" I found the messiah1 gallery... I spent for some days my spare time on it... I started to upload my skins and Wincustomize became my everyday site !!

whatwhere
Reply #91 Monday, March 17, 2008 7:26 PM
i was using AOL at the time but i was surfing the internet and found a site called download.com,while i was looking at thier huge downloads and such i ran across a program called windowblinds...being curious of what the program was i downloaded it,scan it for viruses and then installed it...it was a neat program too...i was running winblows 98 at that time and i found the program pretty cool i then did a search using AOL and it linked me to this site which i must of downloaded a truck full of skins....

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #92 Monday, March 17, 2008 8:49 PM

Been here ages, and in skinning in general since '99.

Took me a few months to find out why the old site wasn't there anymore...duh! Then joined WC.

This account is from May 2002. My old account had my real name on it. You couldn't change nicks in those days so I opened this one.


Xiandi
Reply #93 Monday, March 17, 2008 9:11 PM
Been here since July 8, 2007. Yep, less than a year.   

My brother recommended the site to me. I was making icons for my desktop because I thought the default ones were ugly. He showed me a few things he was creating and I loved them. I came here and was amazed at the things that could be made! I got a subscription, then shortly after, got Object Desktop. I've been learning new things and creating things ever since. I stop in every day.

This place feels like home and you all have become my extended family.

Skinhit
Reply #94 Monday, March 17, 2008 9:34 PM
I joined the site Nov.29th 2004. I was looking for something like that cool little bar on a Mac and found Object Dock, been here ever since. 7 months later started trying my hand at icons and the rest is history!  

Jafo
Reply #95 Monday, March 17, 2008 9:41 PM

Truth be told I was surfing for pr0n and when I googled "download skin" I hit upon WC.

Ah....honesty at last....


BigDogBigFeet
Reply #96 Monday, March 17, 2008 10:02 PM
It was December, 2005. I had my first home PC in years(08/2005). I found CNet and somehow found Window Blinds. Took the trial and bought Object Desktop within 2-3 weeks. I'm here at the site almost daily and several times/day at that.

scorpNZ
Reply #97 Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:11 AM
Joined in March 05 ,not sure why ,how on earth is one supposed to remember how one came here,my guess would be a download.com email & to do with cursor xp ,i just used the free version then used free objectdock,tried rocketdock & STablauncher.Around late 06 i decided to buy CXP & OD,then not long after jumped in boots n all & bought ODNT amongst other goodies.

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