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| 7TPorsh |
 May 20 2014, 03:40 PM
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7T Porsh  Group: Members Posts: 2,691 Joined: 27-March 06 From: Glendale Ca Member No.: 5,782 Region Association: Southern California 
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I realized today I have had my car for almost 10 years. The content here and the group of members have made it possible for me to actually work on and enjoy this quirky German car.
THANK YOU ALL! I don't want to drum up any negativity regarding the old "club" or anything. I do remember being a member during a "split up". So what I am really getting at here is......When did the world site go online and become what it is today? I am guessing from my lousy memory around the end of 2006? Just trying to gauge how old we are...thx |
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| Dave_Darling |
May 22 2014, 09:26 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California
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Early in the Dark Ages, there was a mail-server called Porschephiles. P-files was run by one Stan [Hanks], dark wizard and master of IT and Porsches. It was one big list for all makes and models of Porsche, from the cranky old 356es to the lowly and unregarded 924s and 914s to the newest 964 Carrera 4s and even 928s! It had no automated way of signing up, and would occasionally get overloaded and crash until the Mighty Stan returned from his business travel to reboot it.
During one of these outages, the kindly Unca Dunka put together a mail server with automation, and a way to access it through the (somewhat) new World Wide Web thing. It was called "Porschelist", it was separated out by model type, and it was pretty darned good. Most of the Pfiles folks went there, and Stan seemed content to retire from the mailing-list-running biz. It came to the notice of the kindly Unka Dunka that certain parties might not take kindly to having their name associated with an on-line presence that they did not control. So after some thought, Unca and his partners changed the name of Porschelist to Rennlist, and expanded its scope. I am not privy to exactly what happened to bring about the Club, but I do know that the "Renegade 914 Club" site on dgi.net had a very busy and popular BBS for many years. I think its demise may have been one of many reasons for the Club site to be started. ....Anyway, that's as much as I really remember about The Olde Days... --DD |
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7TPorsh OT: How Old Is The World? May 20 2014, 03:40 PM
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I realized today I have had my car for almost 10 ... May 20 2014, 03:48 PM
7TPorsh I don't know the chain of events but I do reme... May 20 2014, 04:18 PM poorsche914 914world.com Creation Date: 14-dec-2006
:driving: May 20 2014, 04:23 PM bulitt December 23, 2002. :confused: May 20 2014, 04:15 PM bulitt Brad Roberts Joined 12/23/2002. May 20 2014, 04:23 PM Drums66
Brad Roberts Joined 12/23/2002.
....Yeah,Bullit... May 20 2014, 08:12 PM Cupomeat I thought Al Gore created the world, right after h... May 20 2014, 04:57 PM r_towle date was a few weeks before I joined. May 20 2014, 07:35 PM Bob L. Wouldn't Sir Andy be the authority on this? Wh... May 20 2014, 08:23 PM SirAndy Wouldn't Sir Andy be the authority on this? Wh... May 20 2014, 09:25 PM 7TPorsh
Wouldn't Sir Andy be the authority on this? W... May 21 2014, 09:25 AM brant The "some sort of drama". Was the reason... May 20 2014, 08:36 PM NORD Every year on December 23rd the Birthday Fairy lis... May 20 2014, 09:04 PM bandjoey In the beginning there were little baby dinosaurs.... May 21 2014, 07:50 AM worn
I am guessing from my lousy memory around the e... May 21 2014, 09:45 AM SLITS "And in the beginning, the internet was witho... May 21 2014, 10:15 AM ben*james Oh old and wise ones...hehehe...:)
Will some one ... May 22 2014, 08:23 AM Brian_Boss Most of the people who joined initially came from ... May 22 2014, 08:34 AM ClayPerrine
Most of the people who joined initially came from... May 22 2014, 09:02 AM ben*james
Wiat,...what?....Voldemort. I knew that harry p... May 22 2014, 11:10 AM smj
There are still a few folks on here that I rememb... May 24 2014, 11:31 PM r_towle And other member newsletters were dying off, sites... May 22 2014, 09:18 AM rick 918-S I forgot :wacko: May 22 2014, 11:24 AM campbellcj Wow Dave, I remember being part of most of that to... May 22 2014, 11:50 PM Dave_Darling
Interestingly I just re-joined Rennlist recently ... May 23 2014, 08:57 AM ben*james Thanks Dave. Nice backgrounds for us that didn... May 23 2014, 07:45 AM r_towle
Must be more juicy details to the story but I... May 23 2014, 04:19 PM Joe Ricard Being as I am a early member you can see the date ... May 23 2014, 10:00 AM r_towle BTW,
I remember fights on the list servers, DGI, ... May 23 2014, 04:22 PM ben*james Issue dropped. I didn't really understand wha... May 23 2014, 04:42 PM orthobiz Meanwhile, my orange car was purchased in early 20... May 23 2014, 07:14 PM Steve I remember hanging out on the rennegade site and o... May 23 2014, 07:20 PM Bleyseng Ah, the good old days of Renegade, Tim's 914, ... May 24 2014, 01:39 PM |
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