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Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
Back in the days of Big Brother Clubhouse!!!

Season 1 of Big Brother

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 4:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
It was the Big Brother Fan Club! I lurked for a while during BB1 then joined to start doing the live feeds. Of course the feeds were free in those days, sigh.

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 5:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
BBFC, midway thru season one. Had a different name then but didn't remember it by the time season two came along, so started a new name. "Jumped the wall" from Big Brother-only threads to the main clubhouse at that time too-:-)

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
Ok, it seems unreal that all these years have gone by like this! It is one thing to post "I've been here since BB whatever season" and it is quite another to read Neko's post about being 23 now and coming here at 14!!!!! This board kind of seems timeless in a way until you read something like that!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 9:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Ryan was not even walking when I first came here. And he's almost 10 now! I was married for a little over a year. Now we're in double digits!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
In the summer of 2000 I decided to check out this new show called Big Brother. I tuned in to live feeds somehow (not sure how, since I only had dial-up) and saw this surly woman named Jordan who seemed to be an outcast mixing it up with this surly black man called Mega. I started looking around on the internet to see what anybody was saying about the show. At that time, there were discussion or message boards on myriad topics at usenet.com, and I looked for Big Brother discussions over there. Some of the threads got a bit nasty, and someone in one of the threads suggested coming to BigBrotherFanClub, which soon became TVClubhouse, and I lurked here until the show ended and then stayed around while the website had an online Big Brother game called The Game. Lancecrossfire (playing the game as RogerRamJet) played in that game, as did Zelda, now known as Moondance, and Kearie.

Things got a bit ugly near the end of that game, and there seemed to be a lot of hard feelings. Wink, Merlin (now Glenn), and I all delurked after the end of the game, perhaps all of us with the intent of helping people get over their hard feelings. That was my intent, anyway.

And that was when "the rest of the board" started going. So, it was actually here from fall of 2000 until now, but our seasonal attendees didn't always snap to the fact that there was a whole big and varied message board besides the Big Brother threads.

In the old days, a whole bunch of us went to chat in the evenings. We played trivia some nights in chat, and we played it on the board. Wink often beat me on the board because she had high speed cable, and I only had dialup. Plus, she is wickedly brilliant, I mean old.

Loppes
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07-12-2002

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Loppes a private message Print Post    
I found this website within two weeks of it being born. I was hooked on BB via aol chatrooms...found it and saw a Canadian had started it. I am canadian. Registered, but couldn't figure out password, didn't post. The Game came up in September, I applied, got my username/password straightened....got my cronies from chat frat to come here..and the rest is history. I've been working way north in the Yukon the past year, so I haven't posted, but check in the BB boards during summer. Regardless of the first year and all the animosities, I still believe this is the best site for BigBrother.
ShoutOut to Lance: Yes! I'm still alive! :-)
(I consider Lance a friend from 2000, and I'm glad he's part owner of the site now).

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 1:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
Big Brother Fan Club. Of course...

And yes... remember our angles who got together and threw some toilet paper over the wall to the poor HG's who were getting low.

I laugh out loud when I read that some of you went to chat back in the beginning. I was here, but knew nothing about computers and chatting. I thought that by posting on this board I was chatting. LOL. Thanks BBFC and TVCH for being here because I felt this was a safe group in which to learn about computers and message boards...

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 5:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I didn't find the boards until BB2, but wow - according to the info under my name, that was eight years ago! It is amazing how time flies, and even though I don't watch BB as religiously as I used to, I do come here every day! :-)

Ladybug007
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08-13-2000

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 7:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladybug007 a private message Print Post    
I am so glad I started this thread! :-)

Riviere
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09-09-2000

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 8:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Riviere a private message Print Post    
I signed on in July 2000 though the site shake up says I joined in September 2000. I was one of the few to have streaming video for BB1 reports to share. Oh well... I remember it clearly as my son turned 17 and helped monitor it. Sadly he died in 2004... I call myself an Old Timer...

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Riviere, you ARE indeed an oldtimer. Belated condolences on the loss of your son. I think there is nothing sadder or more traumatic than the loss of a child, and the parent has to go on living when it seems just impossible.

Loppes, heh, I think it is pretty much water under the bridge by now, and you for sure did your time in the barrel.

Bonbon, I forgot all about the BB Angels, headed by our very own Zelda, Moondance, who went and threw toilet paper over the fence. Who else went with her? And are they still here? Ah, good times, good times.

Lancecrossfire
Animoderator

07-13-2000

Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 10:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lancecrossfire a private message Print Post    
Riviere, I too wish to say I'm very sorry for your loss at such an early age.

Hi Loppes! Thanks for the very nice words

Loppes
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, May 18, 2009 - 10:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Loppes a private message Print Post    
Riviere, my condolences to you also, my son was around that age also, I understand when you say yours helped you monitor.

Juju......yes, very much so!

I also forgot to add the unique thing that drew me was the live feed reports, which helped to fill in the times when the streaming video wasn't working. A couple years ago I had a summer where I had time to do some LF reporting and it was lots of fun. I'm hoping if I get out of the Yukon by beginning of July, maybe I'll do some more.

Tess
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04-13-2001

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 6:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
I started lurking during BB1 and read the live feeds while recovering from my hysterectomy that summer. I still lurked and read the public areas of the board until April 12, 2001 when RG said something in some thread I can't remember which alluded to some catastrophic event happening (the same mess Juju referred to) and I was so afraid that TVCH was going to implode. TVCH was my escape from my pain and I read such interesting things. I felt I had to join and from my perspective as an outsider, try to remind people what a wonderful community they had going - don't let it breakdown. Don't let a few people take away all the good.

My husband had told me for months that I couldn't get an account here. He was afraid for me getting hurt and too involved. Sure enough, I spent the better part of the next 18 months in tears and having to prove I was just some nice middle aged mom in Minnesota who has Lupus and COPD, a husband who is a physicist and a little girl with special needs from Korea. I was reviled for adopting a child while I was so ill, for posting our adventures while we were on vacation and for so many other things. I was accused of being someone I wasn't just because I have a genius IQ and my husband programs super computers which made formatting a cinch for me. It took maybe all of 5 minutes to learn. Have I forgiven the people who tore me to shreds during those months? I don't know, but I rarely think about them any more. I guess that is a step in the right direction.

But, I met so many wonderful people, truly good-hearted souls that I would go through all that again if I had to just to meet those same people. Sometimes life gets complicated and in the way of me being here for a day or many days but I always come back. When I'm the most quiet is when life is its hardest for my family and me. I'm not one who usually pours out their soul for all to read but Juju always knows what's going on and I always come back. Thank you to the ones who believed in me during those dark, dark days way back when. You all know who you are.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Hi Tess. I remember you being one of the few I actually posted to in my humble beginnings here back in BB1 days. If I recall, your residential area, maybe your own house was flooded? I remember posting to you and asking if all was okay with you and your house. You were and have always been very nice to me here. I know that I've hurt your feelings in the past and I do hope we have moved on from that time of so long ago. You have a good friend in the dawg and she does take care of you.

In reading your post, I didn't realize that some posters caused you emotional pain. I was so naive back then and just trusted everyone!! It took me a about a year to finally "get it" and I learned that some posters had agendas that I didn't want to be a part of.

Now I'm basically a lurker and there are only a handful of current TVCHer's that I will post to or with and only certain threads that I will post to as well. I've kept in touch with a few from the humble beginnings outside of TVCH and I'm happy to report that my instincts were right on about them and they are truly good souls and good people.

All in all, I'm happy that I came to BBFC/TVCH because through this venue, I gained my posting skills as I had never taken part in the 'net posting before. So many saints here taught me so much about netiquette and posting and this place will always be very special to me.

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
The Angels were what made me keep coming back at the beginning

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
Yep, Eggie, you were there and you are right on about the flood. I described Sarah (age 4-1/2 at the time as being in her swimsuit, with flippers, goggles and snorkel gear on holding her little plastic bucket and trying to "help". She was truly a sight to behold. And yes, you and I are still buddies and will be to the very end. You're right about the Pup. I'd be lost in the woods without her.

TVCH was my first internet experience as well and it sure was a hell of a ride for the first 18 months, but the good outweighed the rest. I followed the Angels religiously and thought their antics were hilarious!! I followed Juju's trip to Australia and her travails with her broken down laptop. We had chats every single night and tag-teamed transcribing every reality show on. Several of us joined right at the same time and we kind of helped each other through the maze. The kind people who sent emails right at the beginning and the very, very special soul who called me on the phone will forever have a warm place in my heart.

When Survivor came and I adored Colby, Dilligaf and I would spend hours each night decorating each other's folders -- me telling her she loved Colby and she's touting Keith. Good times!

911 was a the most gut-wrenching experience ever. As soon as I learned of it, I hit the chat room immediately and stayed there for 19 hours, relaying information, comforting people, listening, just being. It was our 9th wedding anniversary and it was Nancy's birthday which she was spending in NYC as a special gift to herself. The following day, another 19 hours in chat doing the same. For the whole week we ran dual chat rooms -- one for people who still needed to talk about 911 and another for those who had to move on to survive themselves. My husband lost a cousin that day. My sister lost a friend and co-worker. But it was the feeling that I could be of some small use to people during their fright and their grieving process that helped me take a deep breath and stay the course as Juju would say.

For better or worse, we're somewhat of a family here, quirky, slightly disfunctional, friendly, private, fiercely loyal, and tangential all at the same time. People come and go just like in life. We welcome the newcomers and miss those who've left us but all in all life goes on. I hope TVCH goes on as well.

Panda
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07-15-2005

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
I originally joined in 2002, during BB3 but only lurked. Someone from a Mole 2 message board gave me the link when she found out I watched BB.
I think I used to be "Ker816" but couldn't remember my password so I had to sign up again in '05 and then I started posting a little more.

Beekindpleez
Member

07-18-2006

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 10:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Great thread!

I have been a lurker here since BB1. As some of you may know, computery-gizmo-thingys are not really my bag, so the idea of signing up was a big scary for me. I read the BB threads every day and finally, I just had to join. It was during All-Stars.

I didn't realize there was so much here other than BB for quite a long time.
I really enjoy all the different areas.

I also remember reading here after 9/11 and feeling so drawn to things being said here. That was back when there was still a Chatter's thread and I remember being touched by so many stories in there.

When I first joined, I had been going to chat rooms because I really wanted to talk about BB. The decorum was quite different in those chat rooms. It took me a while to get the hang of it here. Sorry about that. lol I haven't been to chat rooms since joining, and I am delighted by that.

I don't belong to any other boards. I don't post any other places.
I do read one other board on occasion, but I found it thru a link here. I don't much like it there, but I do read there sometimes because they have info we sometimes don't have here.

I have found that most everyone here contributes to the board in one way or another. Very helpful to others. I am impressed by that.

Like others, my family knows the importance of TVCH to me. They sometimes ask about people here.

I also sometimes print out pages from the BB threads and send them to my mother, who loves BB and spends a lot of time reading the funny antics and looking at the pics some fine folks post. It gives her a lot of pleasure.

This is a very special place with very special people.

Dogdoc
Member

09-29-2001

Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 3:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
A married couple that I met on the board stayed at my house for several days.I took off from work showed them around town. The people I work with thought I was crazy. They told me there are horror stories about meeting people on the internet. One woman told me later that she drove by my house to see if I was all right. lol We TVCH people are different. I had nothing to worry about.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I am sure I know what other place you sometimes frequent, Beek. I discovered it about the same time I discovered this place, and I also never really enjoyed going there, and they have had a WHOLE lot of turmoil there that we have not had in the past nine years. I only go there if absolutely forced into doing so.

I remember that visit, Dogdoc.

Wink
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10-06-2000

Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wink a private message Print Post    
Aw Juju I just read thru this thread and your trivia reference brought back many fond memories. I even got a prize mailed to me by she who shall not be named before she got famous.

And I miss Glenn

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 10:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Hahahahaha, Wink!!! Oh, rub it in on getting that prize. She who shall not be named, lol.

And don't miss Glenn. He is always with us, memorizing everything, just like he always did. <waves to Glenn> I think it is possible the three of us are here until eternity.

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Monday, May 25, 2009 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wink a private message Print Post    
Thank goodness we don't play trivia anymore. I've lost so many brain cells over the last nine years I'd never be able to keep up.

<joins in the Glenn wave>