Memories from old time posters...

I've been here for maybe a couple of years, with a break in the middle, and I seem to have missed some stuff while being gone... Whatever happened to all the people that are gone? They just stopp posting? I can understand that with some, but others, Ted for example, infamous maybe, but funny and smart, was one of those poeple I thought would never disappear.

The only one I miss is KillerQueen.45 - a sound chap, he was. Owes me a tenner, if I remember rightly.

Maybe some of those other folk you are referring to are still posting under different usernames, but are just too embarrassed to let the cat out of the bag.

Best place for cats, incidentally.

I've been a lurker from about 2000. What I remember of those days is the posts of P_G, Oppo and Chad, as well as the inimitable fatty.

Who remembers the fantasy forum? Now that was fun. Ball squeezing with Chuffy, odd dreams with Raspy...

Ah, thems was the days :)

*Begins to sob and sing TATDOOL wistfully*

Spiderleg Synthia wrote:

*Begins to sob and sing TATDOOL wistfully*

Gad, you know it always gets to me when I hear you singing that one...

You've the voice of an angel.

A Hell's Angel.

I remember the times when Andy Young updated his site each month at least...

"I remember the times when Andy Young updated his site each month at least..."

Was that in the 80's or 90's? ;-)

I arrived in 1997 to queen-fip.com. Not an enjoyable place to visit. No idea at all when I came to QueenZone - I was aware of Richard's website but didn't visit it. I remember Jazz web and Libor's Royal Legend and that's about it.

I had almost forgot about some of the former posters some of you mentioned. Great memories, indeed. Even for a "lurker" like me. I read these forums everyday but only posted when I really had something to say.

Now? I'm just nostalgic, haha :). It's good to see that I'm not the only one since there have been many replies by now.

I rememeber Andy Young's site, and the Jazz Web but one of the pages I liked the most was Queen Heaven. I would even dare to say it was ahead of its time (in Internet time, that'll be like 6 months ahead, haha). I mean, it had TONS of information, interviews, etc. Don't rememeber who was the webmaster, though... :S

W

Wasn't QueenHeaven Gary Taylor's web-page? I could be wrong though.

I don't remember the name neither, have to check my old e-mails archive - I've recieved few e-mails from the QH webmaster, and there was his signature somewhere.

And I remember previous Martin's (Mr Scully) site with all those rare mp3s (I remember there was file from Prague concert where Brian told to audience his famous Another World Tour story about buying guitar), Alex Smirnov's sites (he had few), alt.music.queen in my Outlook Express... Damned, how old I am! :)

I remeber when there was no mp3's, and you could only d/l 20 second .wav samples from varouis songs, of course on that 14 kb dial up it would take 4 hours for a 20 second sample.
I remember when this board crashed and would check the page every day for like a few weeks then gave up thinking richard went on a vacation and came back a week after it opened
Or when PG and Taylor-mayed were on the race for most post, then it was Molly and I
How Oppo was allmost always right, once he answered a question it was pretty much accepted and no longer discussed but to why that was so and so and every one thought he was John Deacon.

Hate to mention it, but it has been like 2 years since the worse of the worse came to this page, pretty much brought 99.9% of QZ toghther, here it is we bitch like crazy, till something comes to our home, then we rally toghther or something, hahaha

Queen Heaven was ran by Gaz... at the time it was the main resource of latest information during the AW & EF tours (equally to "wegotit" in these days). Of course that there were no BitTorrents, Yousendit or Rapidshare things in those days... Trading was the fastest and easiest way to get the latest stuff available.

Andy´s site used to be probably the best resource of Queen information, along with QueenCollector (that didn´t use this name at the time), Jazz Web, Alex Smirnov´s site, Christian Haudum´s Roger Taylor/The Cross web site, Ferdinando Frega´s Queen museum, Freddie Van Ter Beek´s Queen web works (wow! that one used to be amazing), the old BrianMay.com site (ran by Jay if I remember correctly) and of course, Ron´s site which still remains updated quite frequently. QMS ran by Sheri Hurt was probably the best way to meet other Queen fans (and it still exists!). The old days... nostalgy just hit my door...

Ah, memories, twas a sad day when Oppo left these fine sures for greener...erm shores...

I've been here since late '99 or 2000, originally on the aforementioned news board before Chad brought some of us in, including 'dark_Stain' amongst others.

All those names/memories, it was a beautiful time.

Funny how in the internet-age things that are only 4 or 5 years ago seem to be from completely different times.
I have not visited this or any other Queen-related site THAT early, but came here in summer of 2001 - early enough to remember many of the names already mentioned, most importantly Oppo, who I actually got pretty much pissed off with in the first weeks because of his dictator-like behaviour and "British" humour I didn't always get, though I'm not entirely sure he was British... who cares. But then it became clear he was THE source of information, as well as THE source of priceless one-liners.

I did all that stuff YV mentioned, but I sure don't remember it in all that detail. I just remember posting on a couple different boards until I came to QZ in early 2001.

One reason QZ has been so stable these last few years is because it no longer has to support the weight of Chad's posts.

I think I came here as a lurker right around the time Chad left. What was the deal with him?