| Wiley 02.05.2005 23:25 |
Hi guys... I was answering some guy's post where he called PenGuru a "newbie" and I was wondering which of you guys have been in here the longest. I don't mean it as a distintion or to see who's better. I think it was a good thing that Richard removed the post count. I know that there are LOTS of old time readers that don't post a lot. I'm one of these. I remember this and other related forums. Maybe Richard could help me remember? Before Queenzone there were other forums and people migrated from those when they crashed. I'm talking about 1999-2000 or something. Around the prehistorical age of Queen in the Internet. Rememeber queen-fip.com?, when the OIQFC page was actually interesting?, Queen Heaven? (great resource), OIQFC's forum crashing in 1999, the QueenRocker forum, etc? I'm not really old or anything. I'm 23 years old and I'm a Queen fan since 1992. I recently came back from seeing Queen and Paul Rodgers in Vienna, Munich, Prague and Leipzig (as I already mentioned in another post) and I met some fans that share some of my points of view. Let's hear it. Post here your memories. Let's remember when we also downloaded concerts in MP3, used Napster and played silly (but fun) games like "Guess the song...". hehe :) Sincerely, Wiley |
| Wiley 02.05.2005 23:28 |
Hmmmm... I just thought this might not be the right forum to post this, but now that I think of it again, I don't think many of the people who could be interested in answering this (briefly or whatever) post there that much. If this is not acceptable, then I'll accept deletion as a final and cruel solution, haha :). Sorry.. W |
| Serry... 03.05.2005 01:46 |
I even wrote an article for QueenHeaven in 1998 and it was posted and send other info (a lot of corrections)... Memories, my memories... |
| Erin 03.05.2005 09:28 |
First time I came here, it wasn't Queenzone, it was Richard's Queen Page and there was the crest from ANATO on the main page. In the chatroom, you had to hit refresh to see the new messages, and the notice board was full of people who all liked each other (shock) and used ICQ to communicate off of the board. Good 'ol ICQ..."UH OH!" Around 1999, the notice board was a ghost town, then all these crazy folks from the QueenRocker board brought it back to life..causing some friction in the process..:-) |
| RMT 03.05.2005 10:34 |
I came here from QueenRocker back in 1999 or 2000...remember Ted, The Opposition, all these other posters from the past... |
| Fenderek 03.05.2005 10:36 |
If you go to the old layout you can see number of posts and the date of joining... link I still use the old board to check who am I talking to :) There you go- 2319 posts, since July 2003. Far from longest (far from long), I remember being a newbie and some ppl were here already for 2 yrears or even longer- on different board (queenrocker?) or something... C'mon- William have I think over 10000 posts at the moment!!! :) |
| Serry... 03.05.2005 10:48 |
I have had an account on QZ a couple years ago, but I've forgotten login and password after some months of being without computer and later came with new account and nickname :( |
| YourValentine 03.05.2005 10:54 |
The fan club page used to have a message board which was divided into two "blocks" - the Stepfords and the normal people. Jacky got loads of complaints and the board died from the Y2k bug - the only case ever known. Queen fan LeftHandedGuitarist founded the QueenRocker board for the homeless posters while many Stepfords moved to QueenForever. QueenRocker suffered from various crashes and finally the QueenRockers all moved into Queenzone which was small and quiet and peaceful until the QueenRockers arrived by late 2000. QueenForever vanished after QOL was launched in 2001 and became the biggest Queen board. Queenzone integrated the QueenRockers and became the unruly alternative to the heavily moderated QOL board. In 2001 the Queenzone board crashed and Richard created a new one with the result that all posters were re-registered in two days, July 25th and July 27th. Every one else is a newbie!! (just kidding) I think only alt.music.queen has been online longer than Queenzone. The only regular posters from the pre-QueenRocker time are Richard, Erin and Pieter,Janet and Paulie. I remember many more and some are still around but do not post any longer. |
| PieterMC 03.05.2005 11:03 |
I remember back in my day.... |
| Erin 03.05.2005 11:06 |
YourValentine wrote: Jacky got loads of complaints and the board died from the Y2k bug - the only case ever known.*LOL*! |
| YourValentine 03.05.2005 11:12 |
For a long time the notice board was not the only place where the queen fans could post on this website. The news page was a place where everybody could leave a message without being registered and post their opinions about the news items. Needless to say that the news page was full of hate posts and fights, virtually nobody posted anything about the news items - instead they hated each other and sent each other death threats. Queenzoner ChadHanging brought some of the more reasonable posters from the news page to the notice board. Infamous TED originally posted on the news page and moved to the notice board, too. Richard finally closed the interactive news page because it was out of control. The questions page was interactive for a long time. People could answer the questions posted by other users. Of course, this place was soon full of fights and hate posts just like the news page. Virtually each answer to a question led to 10 comments about the stupidity of the answer. However, some intelligent discussions happened in the questions page and the more reasonable posters moved to the notice board. Richard finally closed the interactive Q & A page... The Freddie tribute page was a place where everybody could leave a message about late great Freddie Mercury. Over the time the Freddie page became a place where depressed teenagers chatted with each other and told Freddie about all their daily problems, ahem. An Italian group moved into the Freddie page and used it as a private, unmoderated chat room. Today the Freddie tributes are checked and must be actually Freddie tributes to be posted on the website. |
| Wiley 03.05.2005 11:48 |
Great story, Barbara... That's exactly what I meant, the series of events that led to this board becoming "THE place to be" if you wanted to read or talk about Queen. I specially liked the part where you say that "Queenzone integrated the QueenRockers and became the unruly alternative to the heavily moderated QOL board". Classic. I knew Queenzone since it was a small page with some news archive and Links with "The Game" images in the front page but I don't remember if it had a Notice Board or something. I don't remember much about QueenForever or if it had a forum. I was an "always reader, seldom poster" of the OIQFC forum, then went to QueenRocker, then to Queenzone. I think that by the time Queenzone crashed and everybody had to re-register I was not really into posting a lot because I registered again until a few months later. I think it was by the time I uploaded the Let Me Live MP3 because I remember having no credibility at all at the moment, hehe :). I remember other old time posters like fatty, Opposition, haole, Ian R, etc. Does anybody know something about them and what's happened to their lives? W |
| wstüssyb 03.05.2005 12:04 |
lol those days...my old nick was speed racer and I only posted like 5 times...quite a change eh, mostly I just read and tried to d/l the mp3 concerts that would take 2 weeks for every show I remember pieter was a mod and had some great falling out with Haole? or was it fatty, I remember Janet had a different nick, and Hans never made sence, and fattys great crush on marshmellow(sp)who moved to NZ and Sonja was the babe of QZ and eggy swooped in and got her, and the fact chad could typed 10,000 word post every 5 min and make it sound that everything some one said was in fact some haterd toward gay people =-) and the chat with refresh, yes I remember took me quite some time to figure that out, I always thought all these people and no one is saying anything, turned out to be too much effort |
| Richard Orchard 03.05.2005 12:06 |
there were two different sites before this i think: link |
| Richard Orchard 03.05.2005 12:09 |
Also: link I think that i may have a floppy disc somewhere with the old sites on it. it would be nice to have. |
| PieterMC 03.05.2005 12:21 |
wstüssyb wrote: I remember pieter was a mod and had some great falling out with Haole? or was it fattyAhh those were the days. |
| Erin 03.05.2005 12:24 |
PieterMC wrote:It was Haole, btw.. fatty just defended him. I can't exactly remember the nature of the dispute, though..:-) Something stupid, I am sure..wstüssyb wrote: I remember pieter was a mod and had some great falling out with Haole? or was it fattyAhh those were the days. |
| Lisser 03.05.2005 13:08 |
wstüssyb wrote: lol those days...my old nick was speed racer and I only posted like 5 times...quite a change eh, mostly I just read and tried to d/l the mp3 concerts that would take 2 weeks for every show I remember pieter was a mod and had some great falling out with Haole? or was it fatty, I remember Janet had a different nick, and Hans never made sence, and fattys great crush on marshmellow(sp)who moved to NZ and Sonja was the babe of QZ and eggy swooped in and got her, and the fact chad could typed 10,000 word post every 5 min and make it sound that everything some one said was in fact some haterd toward gay people =-) and the chat with refresh, yes I remember took me quite some time to figure that out, I always thought all these people and no one is saying anything, turned out to be too much effortThe part about Chad is still true when he comes in chat. God love him. LOL |
| Banquo 03.05.2005 13:35 |
The glory days. I started on the Queenrocker board as Macbeth then came via the news pages agter QR went tits up. Remember Chelsea Bunn? Ming? Bricktop? Chuffy? Tigerababe? Ah old times............. |
| Erin 03.05.2005 13:43 |
Chelsea Bunnzzz...she called me a bitch one time.. |
| wstüssyb 03.05.2005 13:50 |
chuffy I do remember, god she was hot, I think I have her on MSN Ming I do remember well, lol Mss bunn as well, I freaked her out in chat once by telling her personal info I knew about her, scared her shitless, she never came back after that. Bricktop, that was a good 2 weeks there I loved the time when TED made a clone of richard name, and Chad posted none stop about the fakeness, or shall I say Chud lol and when Marshmellow had Fatty wrapped around her whip errr finger..then Dietmer? (sp) |
| The Fairy King 03.05.2005 14:40 |
I'm here since 2000. |
| Penetration_Guru 03.05.2005 14:56 |
Gingababe Haole |
| Vad 03.05.2005 15:40 |
I remember Queen-fip.com, the first Queen home page. State-of-the-art was very different from nowadays and they tried desperately to look 'modern' so I didn't find the art very Queen related. On those days, Queen's latest release was 'The Eye' game, and the website was promoting it. I was a member of the Queen Mailing Service (QMS) managed by Kathy and Sherry from the U. of Michigan. I'm talking of 1995... my goodness! |
| Mr Mercury 03.05.2005 18:12 |
Wednesday, July 25, 2001 what a day that was. My first venture onto the board as a poster. Still remember who I first spoke to, it was the one and only Miss James!!! Cant remember any of the previously mentioned ex posters' posts or threads and that includes the famous TED. Enjoyed most of Fatty's posts tho.... |
| inu-liger 03.05.2005 18:54 |
I've been here since 2000 |
| Saint Jiub 03.05.2005 22:27 |
I joined in June 2000, and I think the QR invasion had already run its course by then. I hazily remember when Haole got banned, and I jumped on the bandwagon asking for Haole to be reinstated. I believe it all started when a few "Queenforever" type posters got offended by something Haole wrote, and strongly demanded that Haole be banned. Shortly after Haole was banned, the moderator was out of town and a great hue and cry was sent to Richard. Richard came to the rescue and reinstated Haole, but Richard indicated his frustration at many Queenzoners (myself included I suppose) for having thrust him into this unpleasant situation. |
| Erin 03.05.2005 22:38 |
Rip Van Winkle wrote: I joined in June 2000, and I think the QR invasion had already run its course by then. I hazily remember when Haole got banned, and I jumped on the bandwagon asking for Haole to be reinstated. I believe it all started when a few "Queenforever" type posters got offended by something Haole wrote, and strongly demanded that Haole be banned. Shortly after Haole was banned, the moderator was out of town and a great hue and cry was sent to Richard. Richard came to the rescue and reinstated Haole, but Richard indicated his frustration at many Queenzoners (myself included I suppose) for having thrust him into this unpleasant situation.You have a better memory than me, but I did know it was something stupid. |
| The Fonz 03.05.2005 23:30 |
Inu-Liger<h6>-a.k.a. Richard Guilbault- wrote: I've been here since 2000Man, that's spooky. here's me - Posts: 304 | Registered: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 |
| The Fonz 03.05.2005 23:32 |
Sorry - Quoted on the wrong one. Should have been on this one. Mr Mercury Posted: 5/3/2005 6:12:06 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, July 25, 2001 what a day that was. My first venture onto the board as a poster. Still remember who I first spoke to, it was the one and only Miss James!!! |
| Bohemian 04.05.2005 03:35 |
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. |
| Flashman 04.05.2005 05:39 |
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. |
| Spiderleg Synthia 04.05.2005 05:49 |
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* |
| Flashman 04.05.2005 06:00 |
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. |
| Serry... 04.05.2005 06:59 |
I remember the times when Andy Young updated his site each month at least... |
| Mr. Scully 04.05.2005 08:41 |
"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. |
| Wiley 04.05.2005 13:09 |
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 |
| Banquo 04.05.2005 13:37 |
Wasn't QueenHeaven Gary Taylor's web-page? I could be wrong though. |
| Serry... 04.05.2005 14:03 |
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! :) |
| wstüssyb 04.05.2005 14:09 |
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 |
| Two Sharp Pencils 04.05.2005 14:44 |
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... |
| Polar Bear 04.05.2005 15:11 |
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. |
| Hank H. 04.05.2005 15:26 |
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. |
| Maz 04.05.2005 15:45 |
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. |
| Lester Burnham 04.05.2005 15:58 |
I think I came here as a lurker right around the time Chad left. What was the deal with him? |
| wstüssyb 04.05.2005 16:00 |
remember that time chad posted 30 new topics in 10 min in the personal forum? all topics had a link to a page...lol the hell he went through, he did a great job defending him self IMO I like Chad, he is cool, I guess he just rubbed some people the wrong way. |
| Ozz 04.05.2005 16:10 |
I remember some friend print me the discography in 1995 when only a few lucky ones has internet.. from a website called peterweb or something like that... (i still have those) Then i remember the page of another chilean.. Gonzalo Plaza... it was the only one with all the details of the RedSpecial and then in 1998 i think i remember to join in some contest on queen-fip.com and they give you a number.. i dont remember what was the reason... i never posted here when i first visited Qz... but i remember that from some forum i read the message of some streaming tracks from the Freddie mercury box released before the Box Appear... That night i recorded them... And the next day i connect to Napster :P i made a lot of friends back then i still remember the huge download section from queenzone |
| Maz 04.05.2005 16:14 |
I liked Chad, too. His posting philosophy was just "why say it in 100 words when 10,000 will do." |
| YourValentine 04.05.2005 16:14 |
Do you remember the Queenzone soap opera, Polar Bear? |
| PieterMC 04.05.2005 16:30 |
Here is a link where you can view an old version of the forum. link Not all the topics can be viewed but some do still work. Note the Queen Fantasies section :-) |
| wstüssyb 04.05.2005 16:38 |
lol gay-o-meter |
| Hank H. 04.05.2005 17:06 |
Chad was cool, and probably still is... Also his persistence in fights is unsurpassed. |
| Polar Bear 04.05.2005 20:07 |
YourValentine wrote: Do you remember the Queenzone soap opera, Polar Bear?Sure do, it was a fnatastic time. Somehow the image of P_G skulking in a corner dragging on a Silk Cut can't be removed from my mind. Fatty also did a series of 'Queenzone Newspaper COver' thingies a while back, that was a hoot, I think that they are still int he picture sections somewhere. |
| Serry... 05.05.2005 06:55 |
In those days if you wanted to know news you had to go on OIQFC page where under the date coloured red and image of the roar something from Slightly Mad single cover you might read about forthcoming Dutch Queen fan convention or another story from Roger's assistant Chris Taylor... |
| Flashman 05.05.2005 07:07 |
Well, I remember when all this was fields... |
| Erin 05.05.2005 09:15 |
fields..lol |
| Lisser 05.05.2005 09:33 |
Zeni wrote: I liked Chad, too. His posting philosophy was just "why say it in 100 words when 10,000 will do."I like Chad too but he does think everyone is out to make the lives of homosexuals miserable. |
| Flashman 05.05.2005 10:56 |
Lisser wrote: I like Chad too but he does think everyone is out to make the lives of homosexuals miserable.That's only because he ain't getting any, the blooming chutney chaser. |
| The Fairy King 05.05.2005 19:31 |
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| wstüssyb 06.05.2005 00:55 |
Hmmm.what you Edit? ^ ^ |
| Erin 06.05.2005 09:37 |
wstüssyb wrote: Hmmm.what you Edit? ^ ^nosey..;-) |