Hello You still there?
How long have you been a member?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by RogerCale | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Ok I've been a member since 7/2001 and buying stardock programs a little longer than that!
My question is how long have you been a member and are any of the founding members still around? (frogboy you can't be included in this question, you are older than dirt around here! lol) No particular reason just interested as a lot of skinners from way back haven't been around and wanted to know if there are any still around! 
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Reply #2 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:49 PM
My question is how long have you been a member and are any of the founding members still around? (frogboy you can't be included in this question, you are older than dirt around here! lol)
Snowman is still here, and have been a member WinC since day one, and also a part of the Skinning community since before Skinz.org turned brown.
Alot of the (good/best) skinners/artists of the Old Guard have found other interests or just simply quit.
Some are still around, just not active (skinners) anymore. (Which incl. yours truely)
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:58 PM
Member Since: 11/13/2001
User Number: 150121
Was a Object Desktop owner for OS/2 in '95 or so.
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:13 PM
I have been here since Jan 8th, 2009. So recently completed my two years 
And in these past two years, i've been mostly 'Dreaming' 
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:26 PM
Been here since '06. To emulate Doc that's 2006 not back in the twentieth. Member # 2517517. Started out with rainies and graduated to sysmetrix. Hoping to go further.
Reply #6 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:35 PM
I've recently just "celebrated" my third year anniversary of being a WinCustomize member. (Member since 1/15/2008). See https://forums.wincustomize.com/404065 for more details.
Reply #7 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:05 PM
I've been around a while.
I was CarGuy but since I no longer had access to the email account and had no idea what my password was, I created another account in 2007.
I came back to WinCustomize because of DeskScapes and to download some dreams. Didn't really see alot here so I started making my own.
One day Zubaz helped me out by customizing a shutdown gadget for the Harmony wall. His single act of kindness made me stick around, join in the community, and start uploading my dreams. As much as he's done around here for everyone, I bet the Zubster doesn't remember doing that.
Reply #8 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:37 PM
Trialed Windowblinds in October 2001, purchased in Jan 2002.....Object Desktop in June or July that year.
Back then you didn't have to sign up for the website unless you wanted to post in the forum......made my first "Help Me" post in 2003 when I made my first blind. I was so impressed with the friendly attitude (after years of BBS flame wars) that I stuck around.
Reply #9 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:04 PM
I finally found the info.
Reply #11 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:37 PM
Member since 1/3/2002 Been lying low for the past 3 years. My hobby went into modifying my car.
Reply #12 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:35 PM
Been a member since Sept 2004, but lurked for about a year before that. 
Reply #13 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:35 PM
wow ........ I know most of you guys from the WC. Hey everybody.
Reply #17 Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:01 AM
Member Since:11/17/2004 started with window blinds then bought O.D.. been here ever since
Reply #18 Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:32 AM
member since april 2004... so, coming up 7 years... came to download some logons....and couldn't leave.... rotating Hotel California doors.... 
kinda like the Next Gen 'Hotel Royale'.... 
Reply #19 Monday, January 24, 2011 5:13 AM
My first purchase was desktop launchpad. I needed something at work to launch repeditive answers in emails to users at the collage I worked at repairing computers and working help desk. Stardock at the time had the only program to do that, also bought something for os/2 from them. I remember a lot of you guys, thank you all for responding.
Roger 
Reply #20 Monday, January 24, 2011 7:44 AM
Just under 2 months to Wincustomize.com's 10th birthday....and my joining.
One of my first 'jobs' was testing uploads [sizes, etc] for T-Man... to be sure the galleries worked OK. [That's why there's some odd 'crap' from me on here].
So that'll be 21st of March.
WC kicked into life a day or two earlier though, from memory....
At that time we [skinners] were all over the place.... Customize.org, Deskmod.com, skinz.org, and also the new [then] Deviantart.com.
It wasn't until [both] Deviantart and Wincustomize came along that skinners actually had a STABLE place to call 'Home'. The others [including the smaller/privateer sites] expired at one time or another, and much of that was attributable to their 'Commercial Model'. [note...I didn't once mention 'eFront' ---- darn].
Re User numbers, I believe the first 10 or 20 were reserved for Stardock people, and the one non-Stardock person I can recall below '23' was/is Doreen [21, I think].
Now THERE's a 'blast from the past'....
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Reply #1 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:17 PM
I've been around since '98 (1998) for the wiseguys that lurk. Had the software since Allan Bond's "Capsula" made me buy in. Wasn't very active except for the software for the longest time, then started meeting some really nice folks...most of whom are still here.
Glad you came back for a look see!... mighty respectable member number. Stick around... the madhouse is fun!