Net54's 15th Anniversary?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I am not sure which Full Count Board you are referring to, but I am pretty certain Mike Williams and I established the original Full Count forum back in the late 90's. Full Count was the registered name of the company I founded. Mike was the tech brains behind the board and the Full Count web site which he designed. The name itself came from my daughter, Lauren, who is an executive producer for the Mets cable channel in NYC. Sadly, I had to close the board down after receiving legal advice that I possibly might be exposing myself to some form of legal liability due to several personal attacks by members against other members. Leon, you might know something about that. John Spencer

That would be the one. This board and the other one on Yahoo started right after you shut yours down.

[kkkkandp]

According to this (http://web.archive.org/web/200106131.../disc1_toc.htm) John and Mike's Full Count board commenced activity 11/13/98 and looks to have shut down around 6/13/01. John and Mike started a great thing back then. Thanks, guys!

As Leon said the Internet in general and, as it turned out much to John's chagrin, Full Count in particular was quite wild and wooly. Very informative and lots of fun (except for those who were on the wrong end of the verbal beatings). Ahhhh....good times.

I was one of those to have posted to Full Count and continue to do so here. Can't recall when my first post to Net 54 was but it was very near the beginning.

[Vintagecatcher]

Ryan,

Not sure how many of us are left from the original group that posted regularly on the original Full Count site.

I know there are still a few of us left.

Patrick

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by kkkkandp

According to this (http://web.archive.org/web/200106131.../disc1_toc.htm) John and Mike's Full Count board commenced activity 11/13/98 and looks to have shut down around 6/13/01. John and Mike started a great thing back then. Thanks, guys!

As Leon said the Internet in general and, as it turned out much to John's chagrin, Full Count in particular was quite wild and wooly. Very informative and lots of fun (except for those who were on the wrong end of the verbal beatings). Ahhhh....good times.

I was one of those to have posted to Full Count and continue to do so here. Can't recall when my first post to Net 54 was but it was very near the beginning.

Either that end date is wrong, or there was a board in between that I can't remember. I'm pretty sure we went right from the Full Count board to here though, which would have been 9/13/2001, exactly three months later. Seems strange that their start/end and start date from here are all listed as the 13th

[Griffins]

IIRC correctly John shut down Full Count for a short time (days), reopened it, things went right back to where they had been, and he shut it down for good. Mike Williams started the yahoo group and Elliot Bassin started Net 54 the day after Full Count shut down. Since Mike's was the "official" board (being co mod of Full Count) that board had a bit more weight behind it at first but 54 was more functional and within about 3 months Elliot's board had prevailed.
About 5 or 6 years ago Jay Behrens resurrected the Full Count name for a message board, but it's a different one from John and Mike's.
I still go back and read the old Full Count board every once and a while, I wonder whatever happened to the guy with the Johnny Kling stained glass window?

[kkkkandp]

Was Elliott's 9/13/2001 9:23 PM welcome below the first Net 54 post?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by kkkkandp

Was Elliott's 9/13/2001 9:23 PM welcome below the first Net 54 post?

Yes, Elliot had the first post. I think Leon was second and I was third. Elliot sent me a message right after he put the board up and I posted something stupid I'm sure

[Leon]

Originally Posted by z28jd

Yes, Elliot had the first post. I think Leon was second and I was third. Elliot sent me a message right after he put the board up and I posted something stupid I'm sure

Looks like Kevin was 2 and maybe I was 3 or 4? I remember trying to sway folks here as, at that time, the functionality seemed much better. I remember speaking with Mike W about the Yahoo one he thankfully and quickly created. He was nice enough to let this one be the one to continue.

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Leon

Looks like Kevin was 2 and maybe I was 3 or 4? I remember trying to sway folks here as, at that time, the functionality seemed much better. I remember speaking with Mike W about the Yahoo one he thankfully and quickly created. He was nice enough to let this one be the one to continue.

I don't think either of us responded to Elliot's post. Kevin didn't post until the next afternoon according to that post and I remember Elliot sent out an email to some people that same night. I think years ago, we bumped a few of the first posts.