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914 Online: This is where it all started..., In 1996. |
jagalyn |
Apr 18 2021, 06:17 PM
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Dave_Darling |
Apr 22 2021, 02:19 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,986 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
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. --DD |
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