Archive through March 15, 2002
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Whit4you

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL I hate being a newbie - hard to know what threads have been done already. But BBII is coming up - it'd be really nice to have a history of this group for them to learn about us when the newbies join.

Sine I wasn't here from *day one* I'd love for someone who was to start this story.. I have some fun little history stories to tell as well ....


Whitney

Donut

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 10:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i dont know, whit--seems like noone is taking the bait--maybe no one witnessed the beginning--maybe it just fell from outerspace with a big bang, and we all just woke up here one day and cant find our way out...

Lancecrossfire

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 10:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I was here shortly after it started--a few days after. However that isn't "from the beginning". Ryn and Gail might be able to help with some of that information.

Neil and Lisa were for sure. There were a few others, but I don't know of them who is left today.

Julieboo

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 11:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe we could all add how we came upon this site and then how long from the time we lurked til the time we posted was...???

I found this site during the first few weeks of BB2. I was looking in yahoo for a site that had transcripts of what was going on in the BB2 house. (I think the original site I found had "rebopper" in the name and this was a link). I first looked only in the BB2 thread, completely ignoring all the other threads.

It was a long time, like 6 months before I read the other threads and it was about 7 months before I started posting.

Fruitbat

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 11:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have been here for a long time. It was just a week or 2 into BB1. I was reading the BB Blows board. The board was closed to new members. Someone posted that they found a better place, not so negative and anyone could join. So I came here. :)

Aussiedeb

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 11:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I came here via a Bulletin Board for Irritable Bowel Sufferers. People there were discussing BB2 and put in a link to this site. I have been here ever since.

Now I am addicted to other shows and frequent this site more than the IBS one :)

People on this bb are more friendly and supportive.
Thanks everyone :)

Teddybear

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I came at the beginning of BB2. I was at a search engine and somehow ended up here. At first I was just coming to read from the people with the live feeds, but then got addicted.

Tess

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 11:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I started lurking during late August or early Sept 2000 during BB1. I found this site through a link from another site and I can't remember which one. I was looking for live feed updates. After BB1 was over, I was looking for more information on Curtis and I found the BB1 discussion threads which I hadn't known existed. I just had the live feeds bookmarked. Reading all those threads took me until about December or so. Finally I started poking about a bit more and found there were many unexplored areas of TVCH!! I was amazed!! April 2001 I got up enough nerve to join and start posting and here we are almost a year later. :)

tess

Moondance

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Been here since around day 5... found it the same way MsBat did :)

Enbwife

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I’ve been here since the beginning. I think it was the night that Big Brother I aired, Neil liked the show so much, he decided that there should be a website to discuss it, other than the official one. Hence the Big Brother Fan Club was built. I remember laughing at him when he told me he was making a fan club site… I figured no one would ever come? Little did I now!!! I was hooked from the beginning. I loved BB and loved having a place to chat about it with really cool people.

The website grew and grew and grew, and almost got shut down because it was taking up too much space on the server of our Internet provider. Neil put out a plea for help and Bomis came along and saved the day!!! Then it almost got shut down by CBS who wrote Neil a cease and desist letter because he was using the BB logo... A local newspaper here in Ottawa and across the country picked up the story and wrote an article titled “Big Bad Hollywood shutting down Local Little Guy”… something like that. Neil was a celebrity around our community for quite a while!

When BB ended, people left, but many stayed… the same that are here today. The site evolved into the TV Clubhouse to allow for other discussions. The rest is history. What a ride. Thank you Neil and ALL of the moderators that help keep this site going. I love coming here. J

Alib

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Like some of the others I found BBFC in the second week of Big Brother I (July 2000) and it was also through Big Brother Blows, which I found due to Survivor Sucks. I remember being very excited because Neil (& Lisa) are from Ottawa where I live. I also remember the articles in the Ottawa newspapers. I lurked for a while and then when I wanted to contribute I joined in and became AliB.

Wink

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I too was hanging out at BB Blows during BB1 and heard about this site and came to take a look. I lurked for a couple of months then joined in Aug. or Sept. 2000. I tried many times to escape but Fruitbat tied me to a chair and warned me she'd cut my hair and give me bangs. What choice did I have but to stay?123

Admin

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's a screenshot of the original website

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Admin

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and then here is the site when we transformed it into the TV ClubHouse..

screen9

Whoami

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I came here during BBII. I have no idea how I got here (age does tend to affect the memory!). However, I do recall a Big Brother Fan Club, so maybe I was there (don't even know if I lurked or signed up!), and that led me here?

Moondance

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That brings back memories!

The screenshots and Bat's threats!

Moondance

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BBFC is TVCH

Admin

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I know it's been a long time, but I'm still quite proud of the news coverage..I had my 15 minutes and it was good! Here are all the original news articles.

Media Room

You guys are making me weepy!! Stop it!

Moondance

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What a handsome guy!:)

Wink

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Canadians Rock!!!

Admin

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember the BBFC angels the most...that was hillarious! I remember we were all logging on, hitting refresh continuously, to see what was new!? Moondance must have had so much fun!

Yes, always remember that any success we mention here is the success of all of you, the friendly people that come here and enjoy the place. As the internet gets more and more filled with vile and advertising and crap, the more I want the TVCH to survive!

Lancecrossfire

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was here justa few days after it started, however I read every post before making my first post. That took quite awhile!

I have been here since, and don't pan on leaving any time soon. It's been great to watch it go from disucssions about only BB to discussions on just about every type of topic you could imagine.

The use of the member's folders has ebb and flowe4d over time as well. There have been some pretty good conversations carried on between us.

Quite awhile ago (after BB1) there was a thread about what people got out of the site. It was amazing to see what people were feeling and the impact this place was having.

Sia

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 01:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been a major lurker here since BBI, posting occasionally as "Rooting4Curtis" or some such variation of that name. I have read this site steadily (almost daily: obsessed lurker!) since BBI, even in the "off-seasons" and have found much of interest here and really appreciate that it has not become a subscription-only service like Salon.com, which used to be one of my favorite sites to read. I've stayed with the TVCH through all the Survivor runs and have read the General threads and other folders for the past, what?, two years?, and have just recently started posting again. Why? Because it's just so much fun, and the Clubhouse people have such great insights.

Admin

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 03:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I dug deep and found the original site in my archives. Here's a link to a screenshot of it. Look at the 'Last updated' date!!

The Original site!

Jbean

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 03:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i also found tvch during bb2. by accident i came into the live thread posts and would spend literally hours at a time here almost daily reading what the hgs were doing. i started coming back around the middle of s3, because i didn't realize until then that survivor was also on this site. now i go to the tv shows, movies, survivor, games, and chat. i am addicted. everyone here is so cool! i have made some good friends here. now you can't get rid of me! :) lol