The Very Meaning of Our Existence. (Origins of CGR)

nix · 11-16-2003, 05:32 PM

Awww

No fair!! He wouldn't ba able to to ship the CD's out the country to us foreigners (sp?) anyway

Mike Graham · 11-16-2003, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Sean

Without the LAST 5 POSTS thing, I probably never would have joined THE BOARDS. Thats intense to think about.

Nor would I. It actually took me a few visits to realize where the legitamite link to the forums was.

Phil · 11-24-2003, 04:30 PM

I too joined as a result of the Latest 5 Posts feature, one of which interested me for the first few times I visited the boards.

Mike Graham · 11-24-2003, 04:36 PM

A real live piece of CGR history right here with us.

Phil · 11-24-2003, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by gethedge

I real live piece of CGR history right here with us.

I didn't understand that.

Mike Graham · 11-24-2003, 04:55 PM

I edited it into a coherent statement.

I was making the claim that you are a real live piece of CGR history.

GMartin2R · 11-25-2003, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Phil

I too joined as a result of the Latest 5 Posts feature, one of which interested me for the first few times I visited the boards.

wow look at this... the old tymer phil shows up again... would you look at that... :klol:

SenorPapaCabasa · 12-11-2003, 05:00 PM

aww, i was the third post on this history thread....how precious. i too would not be around if it wasnt for the top 5 posts, also i would probably only have a 600 posts too

noham · 12-11-2003, 05:56 PM

I'm here because of the news on the front page from a few weeks ago saying that the message boards hit one million posts. Figured I'd better stop in and see what all the fuss was about.

ShyStrings · 12-16-2003, 01:01 AM

Goodness, look at how the time has flown. Obviously I took too long in stopping by the site. Over a million posts... I remember when we started the third version of the site and we had that "huge" contest to see who would hit a whopping 100 posts first... and as I recall, I never did claim my CD's, Mickey! Back then, we were all getting freaked out over Amy's lenghty explanations of her taxidermy hobbies and trying to figure out what in the world shyorangefrog was talking about with her cousin.

I was happy to see Phil on here still. You've been here nearly as long as I have, kiddo. Now mickey, I do have one question: I could have sworn there was a version of the site prior to the screen shots you had in this thread, back before the Great Lyric Snatching days by the publishing companies (Breatwood, was it?).

For all you new kids, this whole theology realm on the site wasn't nearly as developed when we started. I remember having a few all nighters right after basic training posting back and forth to some of our first hecklers in the GD type forums. That was back in early 2000. We just hadn't had that happen yet... now it's huge, so rock on.

I'll stop taking up space for now, but if anyone sees Syl or my favorite Camel-Girl, tell them to write...

Laters...

-shy-

Ryan Akers · 12-16-2003, 12:09 PM

Why do cool people from the original days have to disappear?

They just don't know the fun and joy they are missing!

Luke · 12-16-2003, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ryan Akers

Why do cool people from the original days have to disappear?

They just don't know the fun and joy they are missing!

They have lives.

Grace & Peace
Luke

ShyStrings · 12-17-2003, 01:38 AM

Amen, Luke, and amen. I had just joined the army when I first logged in at CGR, so I was quite busy anyways back then. Now I'm a full time college student leading one band, playing in two others, and recording some of my own songs in my miniscule amounts of spare time. Add in webmaster duties http://www.urge-2-worship.com and writing for the school paper, and that makes one busy boy. Artistic side note... where is the old section where everyone had there recordings up? Could've sworn it would be huge by now.

Hey Luke, side note: Saw that you were with the RUF group at aTm (Hook 'Em). I got to meet all the gang from Indelible Grace at their conference at Belmont, did you get to come? They had Derek and Sandra there with them, rocking it out one night. I think they were planning on doing yearly ones, but I can't remember at the moment. Who's doing research to see who the oldest surviving CGR user is, besides the admin staff?

see ya round...
-shy-

Strat_dude · 01-02-2004, 11:51 AM

Wow! I've been gone for a while, but then in the first thread I look at there's Ben Phil and ShyStrings. I haven't seen *any* of you guys in what, a year?

Jeffrey · 01-08-2004, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Mickey

I think it's pretty close to 50/50 now in terms of what is growing the site. I would say that the boards are providing the vast majority of the growth of themselves, but only about half of the growth of the rest of the site. As massive as the boards are, they don't draw nearly as much traffic as the tabs. On any given day, there are between 10,000 and 20,000 visitors to the site. (I can't say for sure, because I have the stat-keeping turned off right now to help with server load - ironic, huh?) On any given day, the message boards get 1000-1500 new posts. While that's a lot of posts, it's not all that many compared to the number of visitors that we have. Once we're on the new server, and I can start collecting stats again, we'll take a look and see.

Mickey

I tend to see 66 guests browsing the cd reviews, and a dozen folks elsewhere at a time.