CHAT THE OFFICIAL TB2K 25th ANNIVERSARY THREAD

Sometime after the Frugal Squirrel imploded and the Tree of Liberty went dead I wandered into TB2K. Lurked for a while until I found out how to join.
I started as Bud in NC in 2009, then I was Bud in WV when we lived in the mountains & I'll probably die as Bud in Fla. I learned that when you change your screen name, your entire previous history evaporates.
A few years after moving to WV, someone ask for some info I'd posted a while prior to that, that they couldn't find in a search. That's when I figured out the name change erases your previous history.
 
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Wow, I've been here since 2004, coming up on 22 years.
Arrived after the "tree house" combusted.
Came for the stories, stayed for the stories & the discussions.

No one has brought up our discovery of a few years ago.
Over half of the members are INTJ - a rare group

The type is more common in men (3.0% to 3.3%) than in women (0.8% to 1.0%), making female INTJs the rarest gender-specific demographic.... Our nickname is "Mastermind".
 
rickd94 said:
Wow, I've been here since 2004, coming up on 22 years.
Arrived after the "tree house" combusted.
Came for the stories, stayed for the stories & the discussions.

No one has brought up our discovery of a few years ago.
Over half of the members are INTJ - a rare group

The type is more common in men (3.0% to 3.3%) than in women (0.8% to 1.0%), making female INTJs the rarest gender-specific demographic.... Our nickname is "Mastermind".
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I used to be able to find FREE ONLINE personality tests---I wanted to re-test and see if it still says I'm the same (INTJ) or if I've changed now that I'm becoming an old woman who (to quote "Mr. Carpenter"/Klatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still") is impatient with stupidity.

But--I can't find a free test anywhere.

If anyone has a link to a reliable free one, I would appreciate it.
 
I was lurking from Ed Yourdon pre 2000 so guess here from the beginning or nearly so. I did not have a computer at home so lurked each day during my lunch break on boss's computer. I joined and then during one upgrade had to rejoin. Didn't do a lot of posting until I got a home computer and then not much until I retired and started living here.

I feel more connected with people on the forum than I do most of my family or friends in "real" life probably because I spend more time with all of you.

Wanderlore -- I think it is criminal what Countryside and Mother Earth News have evolved into. No longer read either. Still with Backwoods Home although find less and less I relate to which is my life not the magazine's.

Like in my real life, so many friends here have passed, and I miss their input on the forum.
 
22 years I have officially been a member. Lurked for sometime before I figured out how to join.

Through the good times and the bad I still call it home. There is no other place I feel comfortable online. The knowledge and inspiration of every one here is phenomenal. Those still posting and those that are gone.

I have learned much from the members here and appreciate the majority here.
 
I joined in 2013. originally I wanted to try and share a TEOTWAWKI story based on a dream I had, but after a while it fell to the side. I still work on it sometimes, but my typing is horribly slow, and my spelling is worst. I have not given up on the story, but my hands can't focus on typing one chapter when my brain trying to dictate 2 chapters ahead, and the talk-type in window 11 is a bad joke.
 
I stumbled onto this place in the Greenspun days, shortly before Dennis brought this place online. I did hang at TB2K Full Topic between the two and was happy to come here. Seen a bit over the years. Uncle Bob’s, TOL, mutter’s. I remember when mutter shut down, don’t care about the others. Don’t know or care if they are still up and running or not. But I’ve always been happy to come back here
 
Member since Aug 4, 2002. Always a great place for information and good conversation. Interestingly enough, I used to read Gary North and Ed Yarden for Y2K, but never saw the forum. I can't recall how I found this place, but it might have been from another old forum that isn't around anymore. I was on several prepper, survival, and current events boards. I remember when TOL was founded, and I hung out there too and even became a Senator before it just got too combative and weird.

Overall, this forum has had the best staying power, and I think it's a combination of people being mostly polite, most of the time (sure, we can all have our moments, but overall the tone of the forum is civil) combined with great information and breaking news. The woo room is also a lot of fun, and I enjoy the home crafting sections, which are more active in the Winter when people have time for things like knitting and sewing, along with Granny's Kitchen for recipes.
 
I was on some greenspun message board years ago, then landed on Homesteading Today for years. I lurked here off and on though after reading about it. I finally joined in 2014 it says. It took awhile before this was my everyday home though. I was thrilled with all the prepping info I found, still am to a degree. But mostly it feels like family.
 
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I was on the Old Board (hey, Marines, think Old Corps) I think under the same name. I was Senior Officer in our Reserve HQ Rollover Night. Drifted away, tried to join but no response (I forget what year) and rejoined a while back. One of the things that delayed my rejoining was the promiscuous use of the N word; I have too many decent black friends. I like the insights, advance notices and off-the-wall things this group provides and many of youse are in my thoughts. As mildly dysfunctional as we are, we are Family.
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How does today's reality with the N's affect one's outlook. For me, the N word is a defining word, and not all inclusive. There is a solid place in our lexicon for the perfectly descriptive word.
 
duchess47 said:
I’ve been here a long time, back before Sat got his transplant, Stu and his dancing Snoopy, and stayed up all night at rollover. I’m not here much anymore, caring for 91 yr old hubby, dog and cat and bookkeeper for son’s business but you all are still in my prayers every night. Thank you for all the information and friendship. Love you all.
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I've wondered how your hubby was doing. Prayers.

You and Suzzy pointed me here. I recall soon after 911 going to a LDS cannery with her. I think I was a member here then. I was then a librarian.

I recall some names of members gone: Canada Sue, Flint, Yammy. That guy who went north and saw the moon in a different place than he'd ever seen it.

I was involved with the local fire department at the rollover (as an information "officer"). At midnight there was a blackout, we all thought OMG. Turned out it was very local, caused by a New Years' balloon, shorting out a transformer on a power pole. Since then, I fulfilled my life's ambition of operating steam locomotives and have discovered that retirement is not all that much fun (neither was operating steam locomotives).

Love you all, thanks for being here and putting up with me.
 
Been here over 20 years. Lots of storms, hurricanes, tornados and floods has happened sense I joined. Several different job locations. Always had communication with friends and family via Ham radio, cell phone and computer. I know I won't be around another 20 years but sure has been fun.
 
I joined after being invited by Deena during the time the "Squirrel Hut" came apart at the seams for various reasons. I haven't looked back. That was back in 2011. I took a short break during a time of some medical issues in my family that took a lot of my time and emotional energy, but that's all. I have memberships in a few other places but rarely spend any time anyplace else but here. Hard to believe it has been 15 years for me.
 
Bud in Fla said:
I've searched by names, dates, new name by year, old name by year - "No results found".
Doesn't matter. It's all ancient history now anyway.
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Here's your first post, August 27, 2009

New Members Check-In Thread...

Hello to all you patriots and preppers. I am very appreciative to Timex1954 for getting me in here and to Dennis for allowing me in. I have been a lurker for quite a while. I have been prepping since 1999 so you can imagine how prepped I am :lol:. I am a right wing conservative - and one...
www.timebomb2000.com www.timebomb2000.com

It never disappears.

We even know about that thing you did in the 8th grade.
 
Countrymouse said:
That was approximately the time-frame I found the site, having first learned of TB2K on Art Bell's "Coast to Coast" show one night, when he was interviewing someone (could it have beeen Ed Yourdon himself?) about the upcoming Y2K crisis.
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This rings a bell as to how I first discovered the site. I was just a lurker. When Y2K came and went, I wandered away for several years before returning, again as a lurker. When I decided to try to join, I kept running into problems. Another member who I contacted on another board helped me out and here I am.

To be honest, my return to lurking the second time was due to an interest in reading TEOTWAWKI fiction. This board has an outstanding group of authors. The desire to want to interact with a group of people with similar outlooks was a large part of wanting to finally become a member. I am very glad to be here. I come here several times a day.
 
Millwright said:
Here's your first post, August 27, 2009

New Members Check-In Thread...

Hello to all you patriots and preppers. I am very appreciative to Timex1954 for getting me in here and to Dennis for allowing me in. I have been a lurker for quite a while. I have been prepping since 1999 so you can imagine how prepped I am :lol:. I am a right wing conservative - and one...
www.timebomb2000.com www.timebomb2000.com

It never disappears.

We even know about that thing you did in the 8th grade.
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Lots of "inactive" names from that time! Make me wonder what happened to them.
 
I lurked here pre-rollover and also at Frugal's and TOL. Being a dedicated Art Bell listener, probably learned about the forums and the "characters" from his show initially. Was on old, slow rural dial-up through those early years, and also hung out on UseNet at a forum called something like alt.misc.survivalism(?). Nobody has mentioned early UseNet. Got PLENTY of chuckles out of that bunch. Laughing keeps you grounded. Didn't join here until 2004. So, anyway, I lived through all the Y2K drama and remember all the crazy personalities and their "memorable' deeds. :lol: Had a lot of good belly laughs and learned a lot, too.

Being raised by parents who were children of the Great Depression, and both sets of grandparents living on farms without indoor plumbing or electricity, I knew and lived "prepping" from childhood. Mom was a canner and gardener and knew how to get by and still feed everybody. Pa was a hunter and fisherman, farmer, outdoorsman, shade-tree mechanic/electrician/carpenter/plumber, built our house from the ground up, dedicated woodsman, and I (being an INTJ kid) soaked up everything I could learn about everything. Anyway, came by all of it naturally through raising and inherent, driving curiosity.
 
It all started years ago when I bought a used computer from someone at work. I knew nothing. They showed me how to get dial-up and AOL. Then it sat on my new computer table in the corner of the room for months. I didn't know how to use it or what to do with it.

In the meantime, an old German lady, a neighbor, taught me how to garden. She was a teenager in Nazi Germany, and she taught me the importance of knowing how to feed myself and survive on my own. She was a prepper before it was vogue.

A friend introduced me to Frugal Squirrels and The Tree Of Liberty. Then I lurked here for a long time because I couldn't figure out how to join.

If you have a garden, you have to learn to store it, so my sort of prepping began. I loved TOL and FS and learned a lot.

My prepping now is not out of fear; it's a frugal thing. I eat very well, and economically.

TB2K is my go-to place. There are a lot of good people here, and those I've met in person are top-notch.

My computer skills have come a long way, but what can I say, LOL? Have mercy when I try to post something and screw it up.
 
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