What was the culture of this forum a decade ago?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by martindl

Ah, Leon's takeover. I still miss Lee.

As Barry said, seemed to be more inclusive back then. T206 got attention, but nowhere near as much as today. Same as today, there would be a couple of crackpots show up every year, stay for months, and then be gone.

Slabbed versus not was discussed a lot (slabbing was in it's infancy). In retrospect, the non-slab crowd ended up being dead on with their gloomy prognostications of what slabbing would become and the problems that would ensue.

Money/value seemed to be far less of a focus, but maybe that's just my current wistfulness kicking in.

Slabbing started in 1991, was hardly in its infancy at the beginning of this Board??

I think it's Jay Behrens you may be missing.

[ullmandds]

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Slabbing started in 1991, was hardly in its infancy at the beginning of this Board??

I think it's Jay Behrens you may be missing.

Jay the resident dunderhead? You'd have to be real hardcore to miss that guy!

[Vintagecatcher]

Having posted on the original Full Count board the chat option was the rage on the early boards. Things change I guess.


Patrick

[z28jd]

Back in the early years of this board, it used to take at least two days for people who won something in REA, to put it up on Ebay, boy how times have changed

I had the third ever post on this board after Leon and Elliott's introduction. I believe I said something insightful like "nice board"

[martindl]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Slabbing started in 1991, was hardly in its infancy at the beginning of this Board??

I think it's Jay Behrens you may be missing.

You're right, Jay not Lee. He added edge to the board which amused me at the time.

Re slabbing, 'infancy' was the wrong word. I meant it as it applied to pre-war cards and the acceptance of this community.

[Runscott]

There were more non-T206 'in depth' discussions. Most of the detailed card websites did not exist, so there were plenty of details about cards, etc., that we were still hashing out. I really enjoyed the esoteric card topics - most of those get lost very quickly now.

Vintage photos got very little airtime - other than David, I had to beg people to talk with me about them.

[rainier2004]

Thanks for all the replies guys, it helps paint a picture for me. I think it is very important to know where one comes from and no those that laid the groundwork.

So I still "pop-up" defined, and I have never seen the word "cacophony"...I guess I am slow, thanks for any help.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Runscott

There were more non-T206 'in depth' discussions. Most of the detailed card websites did not exist, so there were plenty of details about cards, etc., that we were still hashing out. I really enjoyed the esoteric card topics - most of those get lost very quickly now.

Vintage photos got very little airtime - other than David, I had to beg people to talk with me about them.

Vintage photos are actually how I found Net54...hard to believe but I think it's been 10 years now since the Matty McIntyre album was cut up and sold on ebay. I did a google search after having won many of the photos and found others discussing them.

[slidekellyslide]

Also 10 years ago there was a ton of friction between memorabilia and card only collectors. There was a fellow named Robert Plancich who was really hitting Mastro and Dave Bushing hard on game used bats...some of that discussion was overtaking the board and caused a lot of fighting.

[T206Collector]

I would say the differences are only subtle. I still miss the halcyon days of basic text messaging, where you didn't have as much "noise" between each post. And the site was a lot less commercial.

In terms of substance, I have found that I drift from the threads more than I used to. How many times can I read about the different nuances of T206s? Still, I do think we need a good "F. Scott Fitzgerald" post every six months or so.

A while ago I went into the ancient archives and started bumping certain threads to the top. I thought it was awesome to engage for the first time on some topics that hadn't been addressed in a really long time. I think I went overboard, and got a slap down from the benevolent moderator. But, there is something to be said for the notion that we get a lot of repeat business on some boring topics, and other amazing topics get under-noticed.

Also, as the regular contributors start to "green", you get a lot of dis-interest in topics that have been beaten to death.

All-in-all, I haven't noticed too much of a change. Like I said, it's been subtle.

[DaveW]

2 more big differences from 10 years ago:
1) BarryS used to correct spelling and grammar errors for everybody so
we could look more intelligent
2) More women used to contribute (Joanne, Julie, etc)

Times change.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by martindl

You're right, Jay not Lee. He added edge to the board which amused me at the time.

Re slabbing, 'infancy' was the wrong word. I meant it as it applied to pre-war cards and the acceptance of this community.

I know people strongly disagree, but I found Jay interesting and provocative as well.

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I know people strongly disagree, but I found Jay interesting and provocative as well.

jay's doing fine w/o this board. he's trying to take over the world one bbq sauce jar at a time. he's across the street on the other board if anybody wanna holla at him.

[dstudeba]

A popup is a popup advertisement which would spawn a separate browser window in front of the one you were trying to read. You would regularly go to read a topic and get 12 new windows opening. You would have to close down each and every one before you could read about Julie's S.F. Hess.