I think Mr BMJ invented the internet.
I am getting old so I think I first logged on in 1994 with work email. Never had access to internet till 1996. Learned about a couple sites from MM2K miscfitnessweights. Never posted just read bill and Shaun Phillips were there Duchaine and Patrick Arnold Brian raupp. Got on elite ironically posting as George then massive g then after that too many too remember anabolex as a mod ug renegade got fina meso Never was on any open source boards...hooked up on varix then later gfs intense muscle pro muscle knew bass from way back always used his site for info but got the calling wcb when badham died and gfs went dead. Met Lizard over there and invited here.
Pretty much only home now.
Hey! That's pretty much how I got introduced to the internet and forums/newsgroups! LOL
I was in junior college around 1995/96, and after reading about it from a MM2K magazine, I decided to walk over to the college library and check things out. All the writers from the magazines were posting at MFW, and it was like I didn't have to wait for the bi-monthly MM2K to come out anymore, lol. I never posted on MFW (just read everybody), it was probably the most vicious group of posters in existence! I think I was like 20/21. I had been using AAS for a few years prior, but the internet changed everything from that first day I checked it out. I literally spent half a day, every day, in the library for each of the next couple semesters, lol. After Meso and EF opened up, my days of this stuff led me to today. I was not able to really post from 98 to the end of 1999 because i didn't have internet access when I moved away for college, unless i went to the Universities computer library, and it was always just jam-packed full of people that I didn't bother. I got on maybe a dozen times just to check things out. Ironically, a lot happened in that short period......Hulkster's reverse scamming, Leighton's HGH scamming IIRC, a slew of people disappeared or went scammer, and then the private forums started up, like Varix, etc. By 2000, Meso actually went downhill, except for their articles posted to the site, same with MFW, but ironically, EF got super big around that time, as well as many other forums that had just opened up.
EF was such a good board, despite it's drama, in the 90's, and then from like 2000-2005'ish. Once the large mass left to Iron Trybe and AF, it went downhill quite fast.
Duchaine posted not only at MFW, but also on EliteFitnessSelect, which was EF's private forum in the late 90's...which eventually became a pay forum once it died, and Paul wanted to milk it for money. I'm fairly certain that many posts that were hidden on it for years, eventually came out years later by individuals for money, and they claimed it was their thinking. I know Dan also either posted or followed at UG as well because he had it listed in his Dirty Dieting newsletters as a source for info and something else.
In the 90's, both BigCanuck and Juice Monkey wrote their GAINSKEEPER and mail delivery newsletter using info from everybody posting at EF, and probably Bolex too. Paul, aka "George Spellwin," later claimed ownership of those and resold them at EF for money. He was never the author, he totally ripped them off. I ran into BigCanuk just a few years ago, over at Professional Muscle under the name xerxes, and he was just getting back into posting on the forum. I think he got caught up in that email scammer guy(s) that was ripping everybody off, and sites too, and left. There was a member named Maximum OverDrive (MOD) who was pretty popular back in the 90's and early 2000's, and BC had kept in touch with him too.
Anyway....fukk me, getting off the Christmas topic
