Probably late 06, early 07. Took me awhile to actually join up. Now I'm here almost everyday. Probably the best community I found as far as forums go.

well I've been on since 05 but didn't sign up for my self and just used my brother account, but the [censored] got himself banned so i decided to create my own one.

Don't lie. You didn't decide anything. The forums trapped you... like a caged animal. The forums are alive, I tell ya, and they were a comin' for ya as soon as you stepped foot in this place. Big, fancy-talking city folk like you, with your fancy edumacations, always think they's in control, but no... the forums have a mind of their own. They watch us... restrict us like pets.






Anyway, I started wandering around here a couple weeks before I decided to join. I still remember how alien and foreign the place felt to me, and now it's more familiar than any other website. I came here because Oblivion and Fallout 3 (my then only played Bethesda games) struck me as being of uncannily good quality, size, and design... catapulting Bethesda to the top of my favorite developers list. I didn't know forums existed until I found this one (Yes, I was an internet novice), so I found this place completely by accident while looking up Fallout 3/someting Fallout 3-related that I can't remember, was intrigued by the concept of a forum, and loved Oblivion and Fallout. I'll skip the boring run-on post of how they were the exact type of game I was looking for yet never could find, before, but they deeply appealed to me, so I joined these forums. I don't remember if I had a specific goal (question, comment, etc.) in mind, but I remember that I liked the games I had played enough to want to be a part of this community and play other games Bethesda created. It's still the only forum/online communication site of any kind I have ever joined.

I joined right away as soon as I found out there was an actaul forum for Morrowind. I thought I was the only one in the world at the time who wanted to play it, since back then I didn't know much about the interenet and found this forums. I was so stoked I joined right away and couldn't wait to chat with like minded people.

I don't remember what my first post or question was.

The old Baxter (this really isn't my name) never lurked. Joined the day I found out there was a BGSH soley for Rping and fan-fiction

m0use is still there, it's just been taken over by "Congrats! You are a winner! Claim Your prize!-type stuff. On topic, I started lurking a few days before I got my account, which is different than how Inormally work on forums. I usually lurk for weeks before creating an account. I also participate on this forum more than I've participated on any forum before.

So every one of my friends were tired of me talking about Fallout. I would read some of the discussions on the Fallout section and soon created an account.

a month or two before joining. all my then Morrowind question were being answered here or at one of them help sites. eventually i joined here.

after a while on here, i lurk unsigned in time to time and sometimes log in if i do see something interesting been talked about. or moderately acceptable. or just to visit TES Lore forum.

I don't lurk. If I'm not around posting, I'm not around reading either.

This forum isn't that exciting to me to want to read it when I don't feel like posting.

Pretty sure I joined the first day I came to the forums.

In my case, I didn't lurk at all. I joined because I needed some advice about mods.

About a week before I joined. I wish I discovered the place earlier! :pinch:

My joining was directly due to Fallout New Vegas and I think I joined either on the day it was released here, or the day after. Absolutely no lurking. And I can't remember what it was about NV that made me join either.
It was through here that I actually discovered Oblivion....heh....Had pretty much never heard of it at all ever before joining here.

*Edit* I lied. I joined about a month afterwards. But it still had something to do with NV. Probably a bug.

I joined when I first heard about fallout 3 was in pre-production and have been coming here ever since. I usually keep my computer on all day and night, and with the forums open so it looks like I'm always logged in.

I'm boring and I can't remember when or why I started looking. My join date isn't a good indication because I'm sure there was something that I needed to sign up for and did but never actually used the forum until some time after.

This. Exact same reason.

And it was only on for an hour per day, and you had to stand up when it played 'God Save the Queen' just before it closed down for the day.

I lurked about '04 and made an account in '05 and used to post quite a bit back then. I've sporadically been away, lurked and resurfaced like a halibut with a faulty swim bladder, but now I have teh internetz back I'm a bit more active.

The first time I visited this site was in 2006 and after occasionally lurking for a couple of years I decided to join the forums.

I had a questiong concering lore about Daggerfall. Though I never asked that question, I used the search function and spent about an hour and ten minutes reading through three threads. . .

Even though, I've known about this forum since July of last year, it took me this long to say -- "Just go ahead and join already. . ."

I joined as soon as I find these forums (in 08, not 09). Can't remember why though, maybe I needed help with Oblivion or something.

I remember joining back in 2006, when I was like twelve or something. I can still remember getting a fishy stick, and then being told off for triple posting I made so many rookie errors...

I can't remember exactly why I joined, though - probably to ask a question about Oblivion. I didn't stick around for long, but came back when Fallout 3 came out, and then stuck around for Werewolf.

Jeepers. I think I was in year 9 when I first started coming on to the forums. So I was about 13/14? 2003/2004. Damn that's a bad thought. I did have another account before this, but I wanted to change my name (I think it was DarkWyvern - but it's long gone if it is). Wish I hadn't changed my name, this one is terrible.

I never have. Just some periods where I do not come here at all.

04'.

Started lurking when i heard fallout 3 was being released.

Then joined in the summer after, i broke my ankle and had nothing better to do.