How long you been here?

[Rembrandt]

12 years...damn I am getting on a bit

[mooshld]

13 years. I am like the Mark Richardson of ferners with a ridiculously low posting average.

[Smudge]

13 years. Although I reckon that's overselling me by a year. I read a great ''match report'' from Canerbry about his boozy day at the cricket and started posting after that.

[Baron Silas Greenback]

MIne says 46 years.....

[Stockcar86]

Just 9 years for me - Higgins gave me the tip that this place existed, and I've been losing time here ever since

[canefan]

9 years, born from a need to grieve in the wake of 2007. Needless to say the Fern is a much happier place than it was in November 2007

[kiwiinmelb]

11 years , its funny I cant remember the beginning to be honest ,

my strongest memory of the beginning , was that morning after the 2007 quarter final , but that was 2 years later

[Paekakboyz]

11 years also. I was struck by the international flavour of the site back then, and as a prop finding two gems like Bartman and Red Beard sharing yarns... well end of story.

[Toddy]

Profile says 14 years, but I think I discovered the forum around 2000-2001(on one of the old boards). Was (still is) a great to make the work day go faster.

[ACT Crusader]

I stumbled across the Fern about 2001 after a shocking Super 12 season by the Saders. But it wasn't until I met a fellow Ferner in person at the beginning of 2005 that I started posting.

[mariner4life]

Mid-2008. Wish i had been here for the 2007 meltdown

[Crucial]

1946. Just after the war.

[antipodean]

five years ago apparently. Although I was crapping on online around 2000 on rsru...

[TeWaio]

Lurked since 2005, joined in 2007 just before the 2007 RWC. Would love to re-read the 2007 QF match thread if its archived anywhere.....!

[Crucial]

@TeWaio try this link to the swayback machine. Seems to have captured a lot of pages around the end of 2007

Wayback Machine

[Crucial]

This link has Bart mulling over the team selection pre the game that didn't happen.

All Blacks named - for real.

[TeWaio]

@Crucial Can't seem to find the actual thread, I guess that lives at www.damienhutchinson.com which is not archived.

[Kirwan]

@mariner4life said in How long you been here?:

Mid-2008. Wish i had been here for the 2007 meltdown

Still holds the record for the most new posters and most bans in one evening.

[dogmeat]

2003 for me. I heard about it on Brendan Telfers show on RS.

Still remember my first post in a thread about good/funny/biting sporting put-downs.

MvJ climbed into me and it made it very clear I was an ignoramus and my suggestion (Bunce saying that's a lot of penalties when told England had beaten Scotland by 20 points or similar) was neither funny, good or biting.

I lurked for a while after that...

[No Quarter]

My little brother who was a lurker here sent me a link around 2006, after reading some of the ridiculous theories some people were pulling out of their arses I had to sign up to put them in their place. Been my go-to since then, and thank fuck for that because MSM has been deteriorating at a rate of knots in that time.