Five years ago I made a thread asking the question who was still around from that time - Day 1 as it were. This Thread! Given it's been five more years, and I'm still here, I thought I'd do it again, just to see.
The forum search software is different now, and I couldn't figure out an easy way to search up all members who joined on a particular day. But you can look up all the forum members period, and then sort them by Oldest Members ->. This pulls up a lot of unfamiliar names with 0 posts who it says have been members since 1969, but given there was no forum in 1969, we can safely ignore these names.
My arbitrary cut off for "active" this time was anyone who has posted in the past 6 months. I then just scrolled through the names and found anyone who joined on 1-1-05 (or earlier). This time I got a list of 26 people (as opposed to the 33 I got five years ago), but not all the names are the same.
The following, then are our "Day 1" Veterans (Disclaimer: as before, I'm not trying to say the people on this list are better than anyone else. It's just an interesting look at a snapshot in time.) I believe this list puts people in their actual "join" order also.
Xenphire (our once fearless leader)
Sakabatou
Draco9
Verbal
Goblinboy
sneakyhomunculus (last active July 20, so, getting in just under the "cut" line)
Senori
silvercut
DarkPhoenix
Nai
xzibit_a
Qwerty
Cyan (my fellow Mafia mate)
Cheesepoptart
Edelmdor
BTape
Caranthir
Grimclaw
GodoftheGrove
KingChewie
kingcobweb
Con_Valian
Feyd_Ruin
Axelrod
Arivia (Two posts total in 10 years! But apparently still active as of October '14)
Lat-Nam
The first "still active" person to join on 1-2-05: VincentVega!
HAPPY 10th MTGS!
Maybe I'll see all you guys again in five more
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I was digging through old PMs and found stuff I'd completely forgotten about; a glimpse into my own past. This place meant something to me, even more than I remembered.
One day, MTGS will cease to exist. It happened recently to the other MTG forum where I spent time and youth, and will happen to everything else.
When that day comes, hundreds of thousands of posts - the fossilized record of our hours spent long ago, either well or foolishly - will vanish.
When that day comes, a slice of our universe disappears - perhaps a tiny slice, but a meaningful one.
When that day comes, you will become keenly aware that the only remaining archive exists inside of yourself.
And when that day comes, you will all still hold a special place in my heart.
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