How long has BroadwayWorld been around?

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How long has BroadwayWorld been around?#1
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.
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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'.
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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.



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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.
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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
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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
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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****.
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Posted: 5/15/12 at 3:00pm
Rob's join date is 5/3/03
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Posted: 5/15/12 at 3:04pm
It just GOT a facelift...within the last month or two...just cosmetic.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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" !!!! How long has BroadwayWorld been around?





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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.
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Posted: 5/16/12 at 8:36am
Happy Belated Anniversary CapnHook ; )
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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.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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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
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Posted: 5/16/12 at 7:46pm
I found the board googling 'homoerotic dolphins." Really.
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Posted: 5/16/12 at 8:01pm
Oh, how I miss the Corine sagas! Nothing made me laugh more!
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Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:50pm
^ True the Corinne stories were legendary.
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Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:31pm
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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.
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Posted: 5/17/12 at 1:22pm
Wow LizzieCurry, I felt like Emily in Our Town when I looked at that website.
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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!)
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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).
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