How long has BroadwayWorld been around?

[Huss417]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 9:41am

I just noticed when I was posting this morning that today I have been a member for 9 years. It really doesn't seem possible. But they do say the older you become the faster time goes by.

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 10:37am

BWW has been around for millennia, just in different forms. Archaeologists in Greece recently discovered tablets with etchings criticizing Aristophanes, and the tablets were signed 'PalJoey'.

[jo]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 10:51am

Huss417

It looks like we joined the message board on the same date. I remember that a number of us transferred from the defunct Broadway.com message board.



Updated On: 5/15/12 at 10:51 AM

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 11:00am

A couple people have join dates of 5/13/03. I think that might be the very first date. Not sure, though. I joined when Craig posted on ATC about the new site/board. Back then there wasn't an OT board.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 11:45am

Archaeologists in Greece recently discovered tablets with etchings criticizing Aristophanes, and the tablets were signed 'PalJoey'.

I was totally Team Euripedes and never Team Aristophanes.

Updated On: 5/17/12 at 11:45 AM

[Huss417]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 1:17pm

Thanks for the info. I couldn't even recall how I found this but makes sense if it was posted on another board.

And Happy Anniversary to bdwaygirl and jo as well. :)

As of last week I have stopped visiting/posting to ATC

[HorseTears]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 2:56pm

Follow up question. When is the site getting a facelift. Love the messageboard. Love a lot of the web features/videos, but the overall design is an overwhelming, crowded cluster****.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 3:00pm

Rob's join date is 5/3/03

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 3:04pm

It just GOT a facelift...within the last month or two...just cosmetic.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 3:11pm

When is the site getting a facelift.

I think the latest upgrade was considered a facelift. I agree it's still cluttered (and honestly, except for some font changes it looks the same to me), but I wouldn't expect any sort of overhaul to the site.

[Huss417]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 3:41pm

Maybe it is just my eyesight but I do have a harder time seeing which posts I have read and which I haven't. The shades of red are hard to decipher.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 4:21pm

Would someone post the very first post...reply to a post..that sort of thing? Just curious...from RC in Austin, Texas

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 7:22am

Wow, I had never realized I was one of the earliest members here ! How time flies !!! But I'm SO happy that, during my 3 visits to NYC in 2003, 2004 and especially 2008, I met some wonderful, amazing people from here, who I'm still in contact with and consider great friends !!! Not to mention that when I met Matt Morrison in 2008, he KNEW who I was and thanked me for defending him in "the boards" !!!!





Updated On: 5/16/12 at 07:22 AM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 8:19am

Happy anniversary to us ancient Broadway Legends that are still kicking. And a moment of silence to those who are no longer with us. RIP MargoChanning.

[Huss417]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 8:36am

Happy Belated Anniversary CapnHook ; )

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:07am

I would be celebrating my anniversary with all the other 5/15 people, but I was in London that year and didn't get back to the States until the 20th.

Updated On: 5/16/12 at 10:07 AM

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 11:32am

Awww, MargoChanning... What a fantastic, wonderful human being ! Always kind, gentle-spoken, nice and with an amazing amount of Broadway knowledge, always ready to share. RIP

[wexy]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 7:46pm

I found the board googling 'homoerotic dolphins." Really.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 8:01pm

Oh, how I miss the Corine sagas! Nothing made me laugh more!

[wexy]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:50pm

^ True the Corinne stories were legendary.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:31pm

This is entertaining: https://wayback.archive.org/web/*/https://www.broadwayworld.com

[morosco]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:42pm

That wayback archive is fascinating. I just read a thread from 2003 where people were predicting that WICKED would be a huge flop and close as quickly as Dance of the Vampires.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 1:22pm

Wow LizzieCurry, I felt like Emily in Our Town when I looked at that website.

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 9:52pm

I think I found BWW mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit now on display at the Franklin Inst.Philly.

Much to the ridicule of a few, I've been a BWW staff writer since 2005. Or as my fur lovin' friend Namo deemed me BWW's "brest witer", which DP and Lizzy will lament about my appalling writing skills. Nonetheless, I remain a BWW supporter/writer.

Cheers to Rob & Co. for rising to the top of the theater media/info. world

Yours truly,
Pati b ( yes, that is still what my theater pals call me!)

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 5/18/12 at 3:01am

Wow, time does fly. I've been around for nearly 7 years. I was much more active as a teen (in the days of MargoChanning at that really fun chat room). Anyway, I still enjoy reading thoughts and such, but have sort of drifted from the active conversation on a daily basis. Interesting how life changes things. But in the end, I really do cherish this Internet Message Board space, and I mean that in a way that is not pandering or cliche (despite such sentences being so).