Were you ever around when the owner, RobCrook, was active there? By the time I showed up, he still owned the place, but rarely showed up.
He was a strange one, owner of a message board, but not interested enough in it to participate.
I joined in February 2004 and Rob would post pretty often. In fact, he was the one who set up the Best/Worst of DU forum not long after I arrived because between me, DarkHalo, gator, SR, Kobati, and others, we were bringing over DU threads and poking fun at them, so he decided to make it into its own forum. Seems he got ill and had to cut back posting not long after I had arrived there, so that accounts for him not being there much.
I remember when Rob started the forum, this nutso DUer who was at CU named ElectroPrincess said something like "Oh you've done it now. They won't like this site dedicating a forum to laughing at them." I answered back "You got to be kidding! There's no way that'll happen. They won't even care!" Boy, I was wrong about that because they hit the ceiling and have ever since.
I had met daveman on the SF Indymedia site and told him about CU and he came over in March, 2004. A whole bunch of others, including Ralph, came over in April 2004 when this primitive named Supercrash posted about CU on the island. Suddenly, the site doubled in members in about a week. Ah, good times!
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