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jagalyn
post Apr 18 2021, 06:17 PM
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post Apr 22 2021, 02:19 PM
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I got involved in 1991, right after getting my first 914. I had a co-worker who was a 911 owner, and not only got me into Porsches, and autocrossing, but also onto the Porschephiles mailing list.

That went south, in large part because there was one guy trying to maintain and do everything, and because it was for all Porsches and the activity level was overwhelming.

I think I learned about Tim's Fan Page there? Not sure. He had great info, and eventually a fairly small forum. At one point, Tim stopped maintaining the page in part because he had gotten a MR-2 Spyder and was making a similar page for that. I think he also sold the company that had been hosting the pages, and while they agreed to keep them around they didn't add anything new.

I'm pretty sure I read about Pelican on porschephiles, but I'm not sure I started sending them content until later.

Unka Dunka (John Dunkle) and probably a bunch of other folks then set up Rennlist, after some mis-steps. (I think "porschelist" and possibly "porschefans" was earlier but they had to change the name when Porsche noticed them.) That one exploded into web-based forums, web hosting, and a bunch of other stuff. Dunkle sold it a while ago, and the web forums seem to be the main part now.

I found the Renegade page in the early 90s, and they had a very active BBS. *VERY* active! I think that rattled to a halt after the Jeff sold DGI? Again, the buyer signed up to keep things as-is, but they didn't put any new work into it.

Randy started up Roadglue somewhat later, and it had a reasonably active forum.

Eventually the folks on Rennlist started talking about a 914club website, which I finally joined.

I never really made it onto ClubNARP.

And here we are!

Nice to see some of the folks from back then are still posting! I didn't associate your names (or your old user names) with your current user names.

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jagalyn   914 Online: This is where it all started...   Apr 18 2021, 06:17 PM
jaredmcginness   Suddenly, I faintly hear a dial up tone...   Apr 18 2021, 06:34 PM
76-914   Thx for posting that. Some of the same stuff that...   Apr 18 2021, 07:31 PM
SteveL   Seems like yesterday. Has it really been that lon...   Apr 18 2021, 08:00 PM
VegasRacer   1996. :alien3: I was 5 years into 914 ownershi...   Apr 18 2021, 09:51 PM
falcor75   I was just out of my 15 month military duty and ab...   Apr 18 2021, 10:12 PM
Arno914   I purchased my 914 back in 1990. Joined the 914 Ow...   Apr 19 2021, 03:55 AM
wonkipop   I purchased my 914 back in 1990. Joined the 914 O...   Apr 19 2021, 04:20 AM
Superhawk996   Joined the 914 Owners Associaton immediately. St...   Apr 19 2021, 06:23 AM
fixer34   [quote name='Arno914' post='2909119' date='Apr 19...   Apr 19 2021, 09:54 AM
Mark Henry   That wasn't really part of how the "club...   Apr 19 2021, 04:18 AM
gms   That wasn't really part of how the "club...   Apr 19 2021, 06:13 AM
jagalyn   That wasn't really part of how the "club...   Apr 19 2021, 07:10 AM
Mark Henry   [quote name='Mark Henry' post='2909120' date='Apr...   Apr 19 2021, 07:51 AM
Van914   Who remembers “Tim’s 914 Page”?   Apr 19 2021, 05:39 AM
Steve   Who remembers “Tim’s 914 Page”? I used to ...   Apr 19 2021, 11:27 AM
Chris H.   This is why I hope I never have to replace my wind...   Apr 19 2021, 07:25 AM
gms   This is why I hope I never have to replace my win...   Apr 19 2021, 09:03 AM
MM1   In a way, "history" begins when we begin...   Apr 19 2021, 07:33 AM
Shivers   Wow, lots of memories. It was weird, with the spli...   Apr 19 2021, 07:39 AM
Root_Werks   Very cool info guys! I don't remember the...   Apr 19 2021, 10:04 AM
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flat4guy   I say we re print those decals - I now I would buy...   Apr 19 2021, 02:51 PM
larryM   ..... let's not forget Dave Shepard ..... ht...   Apr 19 2021, 10:13 PM
fixer34   ..... let's not forget Dave Shepard ..... [...   Apr 20 2021, 01:50 PM
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