Ten Years of Music Banter
 

As far as I've been able to piece together, this month marks the ten year anniversary of MB. When this site's long absent founder made his first post all those years ago, who could have imagined all the laughter, tears and arguments about Slipknot that these forums would see in the decade that followed? Who could have imagined that people would one day hold Justin Timberlake in such high regard or that no one would give a shit when Guns 'n Roses finally released that long anticipated album?

I wasn't sure of the best way to celebrate this anniversary, but I figured we could at least use a thread to mark the milestone. Anyone have any stories from the site's early years? Favorite stories from other points in MB's history?

And who is our oldest active member these days? I guessing it's either Vanilla or anticipation, but I'd be interested in finding out for sure.

Who was the founder. Mars?

A fellow by the name of Rockafella Skank.

interested to hear some funny stories of the past yrs

Could also be Laces Out Dan. They are the oldest three, at least.

I'd like to reminisce about the past too. Past members as well.

Good call on Laces Out Dan! I just checked, by the way, and it looks like anticipation is longest standing member of the three by a few months.

10 years eh? here you only get that for murder....6 and a half if you're good

I have been on here for 8 years. Urban is one of the oldest members here too! Cheese you joined the same time as me.

I was absent for 2008 because I had so much going on with my degree and partying (dressing up like Gaga and being mistaken for her by intoxicated people, lol). I then realised during 2009 that I had forgotten about MB and swiftly returned and met some amazing new members. I can't wait for my 10 year anniversary. I've been on forums since I was 14, I was a well known member of CKY forums and AAF forums. On the AAF forums, there was a big group of us that used to make fun of the band and we had one of the band members have a go at us about it. I miss those people but the website cancelled the forum and I decided to join MB.

When I first started here, I ticked off a member called Bungalow and we argued for years until he finally got banned. It was mainly because of my religious views, but I had Urban and Spike as close friends from day one. I was a bit immature when I started but when I came back in 2009 I had many life experiences and really enjoyed the extensive group of people.

The other longest member, right track joined the month before (I think) me and he was the best damn mod this forum has ever had. Even though there were many other great mods, it was known by everyone that he was the boss and his actions were final, even if not everyone agreed.

I've been going on forums for a long time too. The first one was an NHL hockey forum, back in 2001. I was 11 and had plenty of unsupervised Internet time, haha.

You're right, Urban is the longest term member mentioned so far. He joined in December of 2004.