OT: 30 years and 30,000+ posts. Question for the board on OUR history here.

[DJ Spanky]

Still a shame we have no post history prior to 2015, though.

I believe that those threads still exist, but they weren't converted to the format currently able to be searched.

 

[RU848789]

I believe that those threads still exist, but they weren't converted to the format currently able to be searched.

So, what are you waiting for? Get to work on this conversion, stat! I'm sure there are a dozen or more people who would be interested, lol.

 

[bac2therac]

Maybe, but we were at our worst during that time if I recall correctly. Sometimes they just have to call them as they see them.

Out of context lame sensationalism media bullshit

 

[bac2therac]

I remember John O for making a truly asinine business decision by moving to a vastly inferior site and expecting everyone to follow. Tough lesson to learn.

Yep colossal mistake and comical website graphics that were an immediate turnoff

 

[bac2therac]

I remember stumbling upon some of the old RU related use.net sites before internet browsers became available, but the text only capabilities kind of sucked, so I mostly just read posts and updates and then once the internet was really born with graphics and browsers, it was cool to see sites like KnightCourt (John O's first site), Rutgersfan.com (Keith's first site), Joel Recht's page and more.

But then, like many of you, I discovered Mike Fasano's Exit 109, which was the best RU sports site on the then nascent WWW. Loved scrolling through the white on black posts and RU stories getting my fix of RU sports news from an insider. And then when he created a message board, I was hooked - and luckily he let Keith take that over sometime in 1998 on Rutgersfan.com, which gave us a much better board and it's been like that pretty much since then, apart from the restart in 2001.

Those early Rutgersfan tailgates, with nametags for everyone, since nobody knew anyone's real name, lol, were a lot of fun, since for many of us, it was hard to find anyone to go to RU games during the Shea Error. I had 2 tix back then and half the time I couldn't even find one person to go when my wife and/or young son didn't go, so it was fun to tailgate with like-minded RU dreamers and I recall the incredible optimism when Schiano was hired and he held The Meeting and we started getting at least decent recruits. I still see Mike Fasano at an occasional football game, as he's a few rows back from us in 224

By year 3, I had my first taker on tickets and went to 4 season tix and stopped going to the Rutgersfan tailgates and that happened for many of us - but a lot of the folks who went to the Rutgersfan tailgates also went to most of the RU bowls during Schiano 1.0, which was fun. By 2006 we were up to a group of 12 and we've been 12-14 since then. Been RU848789 the entire time and started doing winter weather posts in the early 2000s, which is when I started doing weather emails; the gameday weather threads started a couple of years later. Still a shame we have no post history prior to 2015, though. What a long strange trip it's been...

Yep actually went to one of those rutgersfan tailgates and met Rutgersal

Wasn't there another players brother who threatened to beat someone up from the biard. I can't recall his name

 

[RU848789]

Yep actually went to one of those rutgersfan tailgates and met Rutgersal

Wasn't there another players brother who threatened to beat someone up from the biard. I can't recall his name

Was fun meeting actual RU fans, since there weren't that many of us, lol. No idea on your question though. @LeapinLou might be the person most likely to recall that, as my recollection is he was at most/all of the Rutgersfan.com tailgates (I only went occasionally).

 

[RUPete]

Out of context lame sensationalism media bullshit

If you post stupid crap in a public forum, there are consequences and you need to own it sometimes. Can’t always play the media victim card. People lost their sh$t here at the time. But enough with that - don’t want to derail this thread even though you went there again.

 

[DJ Spanky]

So, what are you waiting for? Get to work on this conversion, stat! I'm sure there are a dozen or more people who would be interested, lol.

Believe me, if I could get my hands on that I'd do it in a heartbeat. That's something I am really good at, have a ton of experience transforming production data without screwing anything else up.

 

[Fat Koko]

The Rutgers message boards started on a site called Exit 109 in the mid 90"s. I used to access it on dialup with Prodigy as my ISP. Some famous posters include Mike from West Orange who also used to appear on a radio show usually bashing Rutgers sports, and Big Dog (a former RU football player) who then went on to start his own site. Rivals went by another name and was run by Keith something or other. Not sure if Exit 109 morphed into another name I believe before morphing into 247. Brian Dohn ran that site and we would have a weekly recruiting online chat (typed, not audio). Finally, the main moderators of the original Rivals left for 247 some years ago.

I remember Mike from West Orange. He used to call WRSU after each football game. Since this was Shea days the game was almost always a loss. Mike would call in disgruntled and say something like, ”look at our players, none of them would get playing time at [insert opponent who just beat Rutgers.]”

He said this after almost every game.

 

[LOU-RU85]

We have had this discussion several times over the years

Many of us go back a long way, before the 109 site
I seem to remember an aol site that wad not restricted to any one fan base, we had many Seton Hall fans on it also
And even that was probably not the first

As far as this site in its current form, I believe I am the longest tenured still here
beginning June 3rd 2001

The same being true on the scout board

Its been,fun

Not true - I’ve been with this from the beginning. I remember when John ran it and I transitioned to this site from 109. There was a split faction where folks had to choose. Done did both for a while but I wanted to focus on one site. I choose well. I was with John from the beginning. Definitely in the late 90’s.