We all know when you joined; it's right there under your avatar.

But when did you start lurking?

Personally, I'll hover around a forum for months before registering. I think my first visit here was early '04. A friend of mine at school was hugely into RPGs, and lent me Morrowind one day. Unfortunately my PC was so rubbish that it was completely unplayable, but the game sounded like the kind of thing I had been coveting in an RPG for ages; open world, complete freedom, etc. A google search of Morrowind brought me here and I spent many hours reading about the game, despite not being able to play it.

In late '04, I finally got a PC capable of running the game, and I ran out and bought it. A few months later and I was in the process of creating a mod, and in the summer of '05, it was complete. I then got hooked on modding my game and messing around in the CS, and created an account to post in the Morrowind Mods section.

I lurked too, when playing Morrowind I'd come here for mods. Im really not sure how long It was for though, I remember playing Morrowind and thats about all I ever talked about at school to the point where it irritated the people around me.

edit. also, i've been regretting my username for about 4 years now.

My story isn't as fascinating as yours is, but I didn't join until after I got Fallout 3 and was playing it for two years, and I lurked for a month, then joined when I finally wanted to join in on discussing a game I loved. But Oblivion was my first Bethesda game. But a google search of 'Fallout Forum' led me here.

I joined the same day I first came here. I was here to ask a question, after all.

IIRC began lurking around Dec 08- Jan 09. The Oblivion forums were my first. Had a question about the Thieves Guild I wanted to ask.

Gaahhhhh that makes too much sense! You're killing me!! everyone must lurk >,<

It wasn't 'Where's the Dwemer Puzzle Box?' by any chance?

Started lurking in '06 before joining in March of '07.

I checked out the forums in June or July and then registered in August to respond to someone.

I've checked out the Redguard BB a few times previous to this but never responded.

Same here. I only came here to ask just one simple question but I decided to stay.

I guess I got Morrowind christmas 2004 and since then I was lurking around here searching for mods and quest help.

When the internet was black and white...

All the action was at m0use.net back then.

It seems that page doesn't exist anymore, what was m0use.net?
Never heard of it.

I started to lurk here in june 2000, shortly after the forums opened, to stalk on the Morrowind developers and see what they had to say about the game Eventually I joined the forums to ask a technical question about the game Redguard, which noone was able to answer <_<


Hi Omni! ^_^


All TES fansites were on m0use.net back then. TIL, UESP and others.

I lurked for a few months. Didn't want to be part of a forum of any kind... but then one day I had to use the search button. I'm not part of any forum (that I actually visit) but this one. That search button is a trap I tell ya!

m0use.net was the central hub for all the happenin' Elder Scrolls fan pages. UESP and Xanathar's Library (n.k.a. The Imperial Library) are just a couple of the sites that originated there. Perhaps they're also the only ones left...

Anyway, m0use and its affiliate sites were hosted on a private server generously given space on Bethesda's network. As such, it was sort of the official-unofficial fan community. There was also an accompanying IRC chat server, where one would often find the heads of the major fan sites, and occasionally certain Bethesda developers.

Then, one day, m0use went away. No idea what happened there.

Also, Hi Freddo! I may not be around much anymore, but I've not forgotten any of you guys! I hope you're all right.

Well in 2008 I was in a computer class, and after we finished our work we were allowed to do anything, but play games. So I figured I would join a forum of my favorite game to post on in my class free time, if I couldn't play them, might as well talk about them.

Did a google search for "Morrowind Forum" and here I am. No lurking involved in my story.

I was pretty excited for skyrim so I simply searched for "Bethesda forum" and I found this place, and I'm pretty happy I did

I started lurking months ago, i dont come often anymore. I used to be really active round these parts, i came back for the Skyrim announcement and started lurking, and now ive come back again just to see the aprils fool prank of the year. Yet i couldnt find one on these forums

*crawls back in shadows*

Hey SuperMage, I remember you!

I was also disappointed, I was expecting to be assaulted by hoards of Rohugh avatars again...

I have an urge to paticipate in everything I read online, so I didn't actually lurk for more than a couple of days

Nice avatar. Dethklok are awesome.

Started lurking in 2003 about Morrowind. Created an account and posted, then fell away for a little while, came back and created this new account.

In August 06, I could link you my old account even now, did a quick search and found it. The name is diabolically sad though . I came here looking for help in Oblivion with the vampire cure quest, I think.