Re: So what have you done since August 2003?
Posted: 02 Sep 2013 11:07 pm
It's great to hear what's happened to people here, and some we haven't seen in ages too!
Blimey, I hate to think what I haven't achieved in ten years...
Moved house (not even across town, let alone across the country), but had to renovate it first.
Met some random people off the Internet (who could that have been?!) and didn't die.
Got a comic published in the NT.
Zapped my UC Grey Yurble.
Played a lot of Werewolf :-)
Had a job that got more interesting from 2004-2006 and has now got steadily less interesting again.
Got through half a dozen cars.
Continued a steady descent into misanthropy.
Thank you guys for putting up with my wittering over the years - this place means a lot to me, you're all cool and long may you remain so.
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So what was life like in 2003? Here's a few things I ganked from Wikipedia earlier...
In 2003 Friends Reunited was king of what we'd now call social networking (at least in the UK), Myspace (remember that?) launched in August. Facebook wouldn't be created for another six months. Chat programs were the likes of AIM or MSN Messenger, or ICQ. We used to have some good chats here back then!
The iPhone was still four years off, although mobile phones with cameras and colour screens were beginning to become available.
Music wasn't much to write home about, although the Gary Jules/Michael Andrews version of Mad World reached no.1 for two weeks (including the Christmas chart), keeping some rot from X Factor's got the Pop Idol Talent off the top spot. 'Where is the Love?' by the Black Eyed Peas was the top-selling single of the year. Britain got nul points in the Eurovision Song Contest.
TV... Brookside and Crossroads ended, BBC Three was launched, and the final episode of Only Fools and Horses was broadcast on Christmas Day. Pop Idol was won by Michelle McManus (me neither), but the current light-entertainment behemoths X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and Strictly Come Dancing were still years away.
Blimey, I hate to think what I haven't achieved in ten years...
Moved house (not even across town, let alone across the country), but had to renovate it first.
Met some random people off the Internet (who could that have been?!) and didn't die.
Got a comic published in the NT.
Zapped my UC Grey Yurble.
Played a lot of Werewolf :-)
Had a job that got more interesting from 2004-2006 and has now got steadily less interesting again.
Got through half a dozen cars.
Continued a steady descent into misanthropy.
Thank you guys for putting up with my wittering over the years - this place means a lot to me, you're all cool and long may you remain so.
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So what was life like in 2003? Here's a few things I ganked from Wikipedia earlier...
In 2003 Friends Reunited was king of what we'd now call social networking (at least in the UK), Myspace (remember that?) launched in August. Facebook wouldn't be created for another six months. Chat programs were the likes of AIM or MSN Messenger, or ICQ. We used to have some good chats here back then!
The iPhone was still four years off, although mobile phones with cameras and colour screens were beginning to become available.
Music wasn't much to write home about, although the Gary Jules/Michael Andrews version of Mad World reached no.1 for two weeks (including the Christmas chart), keeping some rot from X Factor's got the Pop Idol Talent off the top spot. 'Where is the Love?' by the Black Eyed Peas was the top-selling single of the year. Britain got nul points in the Eurovision Song Contest.
TV... Brookside and Crossroads ended, BBC Three was launched, and the final episode of Only Fools and Horses was broadcast on Christmas Day. Pop Idol was won by Michelle McManus (me neither), but the current light-entertainment behemoths X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and Strictly Come Dancing were still years away.