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Adven

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
And don't say by bus.

This thread, too, has been done before, but coming up with original ideas makes my skull pound. It's also so tame that even I can't screw it up and make it controversial. The question is simply: what path led you to this board? I'll start.

I loved the first installment of Survivor and had a passing interest in the first BB, so I went to the internet to get more info. This would be roughly 2-4 months after Neil started the board. I found this site in passing. Not being much use as a wallflower, I signed up immediately and began conversing with a number of members. Most have moved on, but Lance, Moon and many other recognizable names were already here.
I posted here pretty regularly for a year and a half or so and made a lot of good friends. One of them started her own board, RealityRox, and I followed her and others over, although still posted at TVCH sporadically. That board eventually died, probably because of something I did, and I dropped out for a while. Since then, I've tended to show up at TVCH, post furiously for a while and then disappear - usually due to professional obligations. I then return and start the process all over again.
I've posted occasionally elsewhere, but TVCH and its members are by far the best (although there are a few people out there I wish would return).

Texannie

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I started with the first BB as a lurker reading mainly the live feeds. It expanded from there. I only "came out" recently.

Jeep

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with Texannie. Started here during the first BB. Found it while searching the internet. I stayed in lurk mode only for quite awhile. I've really just begun to post regularly. And I agree with Adven, there are some names I no longer see here and wish they would return. Everybody and their opinions and thoughts are so interesting.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
you are on a roll aren't you adven?

i can't recall too clearly the why i found this place. but it was about a week or 2 into bb2 and for some reason i did a search on the net for bb info and up popped this site. i think i may have lurked for a moment. i read the live feed summaries and also passed them out for some co-workers. then i started wanting to comment so i signed up and jumped right in. and i mean literally jumped right in with the chill-town disgust, boogie disgust, etc.

then when bb was over i ventured to the other areas esp for info on survivor. ive been here ever since and i have never disappeared. i was esp happy to discover that i could post in different colors. i think i experimented with them all and settled on the p-word one that's listed in the formatting area. then dra and moonie gave me links to these color charts and the aubergine queen was born.

Ginger1218

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I started here during BB1 and lurked mostly. I don't remember how I got here, I can barely remember my name or where I was yesterday LOL

Midlifer

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's all Hermione's fault! She got me hooked on this!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
hey dra, maybe now would be a good time to post that way back link you gave me and a few others the other day? i would post it myself but it's on my home puter. thx.

Reader234

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 10:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Adven, I cant believe you would ever cause any kind of trouble. You must be very misunderstood.

I think I got here thru Joker's site from BB1 (omg, I remembered something!!) I hated the way they did live feed postings, and I wanted to know if Brittany was for real!! As you know many of these fan bb can be ... fanatical. Something made me sign up, I remember the poster, not the debate. I knew I wouldnt feel comfortable posting. Dont laugh, but I truly believed the debates here were very intellectual, and I was afraid I couldnt compete! I intended to "read" only. Then, those wonderful BB Angels!! I started posting more due to encouragement from Hermione and Fly. I was adopted by Egbok after BB3, but I strayed. I posted a lot on the ivillage bb, non tv stuff. This years BB was boring for me, and I ended up in other areas, and somehow got sucked in some kind of "Adventure", that just hasnt let me go....

You never know!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
it's odd, it was bb2 that brought me here but i haven't posted regularly in the bb area in a long while.

Egbok

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes CyberKidlet Reader...you did stray and I was looking all over for you! Please leave me a note if you should decide to stray in the future...don't make your CyberMomma worry like that again...whew!

Eliz87

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
During BB1, this was the only place I could find that had live feed reports plus a message board. I've been addicted ever since!

Draheid

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
What MsSquared is referring to is a site on the internet that archives other websites. Keep in mind this service does not have all of any site archived, however there is plenty there to keep you entertained for quite a while.

TVCH on the WayBack Machine


Take a look at March 01, 2001, click on 'Discussions' at the top then General Discussions and you'll find the beginnings of the Minnesota gathering, and a lot of other interesting and/or amusing things. I'm sure you'll even recognize quite a few posters there that are still around today.

Or if you prefer, click here to go directly to March 2001 General Discussions.

Please keep in mind that not everything will work there but click around and enjoy. :)

Edit to add: The wayback machine has 300+ trillion bytes of information stored, at www.archive.org where you can probably find just about any site you like and see what it looked like 'way back' then. Simply enter the address into the box and click on 'Take Me Back'.

Mak1

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I clicked on a link somewhere.

Towards the end of BB1, the chat room where I had spent my summer watching live feeds suddenly turned ugly. (not my fault, I was even more innocent back then!) A good friend and I started looking for a new board and read this one a few times while surfing around. When BB2 started, he sent me one of Bunny's Tales, and that was all it took. This became my new home for BB. At the end of BB2, someone invited everyone to stick around and check out other areas of the board. I did, and lurked for a long time before I felt comfortable enough to jump in and try joining another cyber community. I'm so glad I did.

It's funny, I seldom post in the BB area, even though I read it every day.

(Reader and Square, don't stay away from the Adventure for too long...you know how they strategize when anyone steps outside.)

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
thx dra. besos.

Mack

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My story is pretty much like Mak1's. Somebody in a BB1 chat room mentioned TVCH and I found it through a web search. Lurked here until recently and probably still don't post here all that much. Really like the folks here and love to discuss most of the reality shows...all in one place!

Danzdol

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right before BB2 I was so excited because I had sent a tape in and I started looking through forums to meet other people that had sent their tape in too. I found another site that had a link to this one. I was on lurker status until a good number of people here were posting about how they had sent a tape in too and VOILA!!!!! I was hooked. I spent my summer posting with these fellow posters and that was the start of it

Lumbele

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 12:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It must have been someone on the CBS BB1 board that led me here (CRS). In those days I knew even less about the net/computers than now (searching? what's that?). Since the other board (wherever it was) got pretty nasty at times I came back to TVCH for consecutive BBs, and after BB3 I heeded the call of the regulars to stick around and voila...It took me quite a while to post though. Shy, don'tcha know. Now I am here almost as much as in my own abode.

Bonnyswan

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 12:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Im super new...I didnt even own a puter til last year and definitely didnt know what a message board was. But thinking with my britches as usual I thought Dave from BB4 was adorable and searched for info on him (I am fully aware how geeky that sounds) and it brought me here.I loved what everyone had to say and posted my first day. I love this place and am so glad I found it.

Miss_Wings

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 12:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I think I have been lurking since the beginning. Not hanging around when BB wasn't on. This years BB was sooooo boring that I started wandering through other areas to see what was there. Finally signed up for a password. Adven's reality game has made me laugh so much that I got brave and started posting.

Resortgirl

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I found this place during BB1 and lurked for a bit (maybe should've stayed that way!) Then I posted a really stupid stupid thing about the people here not having a life and got Moondance mad.... she let me have it but good!!! She forgave me, we became friends and the rest is history!!!

Froggiegirl621

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 01:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not 100% sure how I got here...I think someone gave me the link in a BB2 chatroom, and well, the rest is history. I think I pretty much just lurked during BB2 then came back for BB3 and have stuck around ever since! This place is awesome!!! It's like my home away from home. The boyfriend always asks how I can just stay on the site for hours on end...there's just so much going on, I never want to miss anything!

By the way Dra, that Way Back Machine thingy is sooooo cool!!! Thanks for the link!

Weinermr

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 01:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched BB1 on TV, without watching any live feeds, and without the benefit of any internet message boards. It was only the TV experience.

The next year I started watching BB2, and got curious about the live feeds and the internet. One day I was poking around the internet, and went to the Big Brother site at cbs.com. From there somehow found a link to TVCH, and found a whole new world.

It was like a living breathing thing! I was amazed at all the posting, and the speed at which threads would start and develop. It was exciting, and intoxicating, and never before had I experienced such a large group of people who loved and enjoyed Big Brother just like I did.

I lurked for no more than a day, and felt like I had something to say so I registered my username. I posted some things in the Big Brother threads, but mostly just lurked.

After Big Brother was over, it was a huge letdown. The living breathing animal had quieted down to the less active non-Big Brother activity. I felt a huge disappointment that my "fix" had ended.

I started poking around the General Discussion threads, and realized there was a whole group of amazing people that was still here. I started posting more and more as time went on, and I haven't left since.

I really love it here.

Jan

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 02:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I also found this thru a yahoo search , I think, during BB1. I was hooked on BB and looking for a site to read about it. At first, I visited many sites but, over time, it dwindled down to just TVCH. I was here before BOMIS just after Neil started it up. At that time, my name was jasper.

That first year I was 100% addicted to BB. I was in the 'I love Curtis and hate Eddie camp" and the "Cass has class" act. I had live feeds and kept them on lots. I stopped coming here after BB each year for the first couple of years.

This year (and maybe last year??), I came back as Jan but really barely even watched BB on TV.I read summaries of Live feeds and the gen disc. That's about it.now I spend most of my time elsewhere on the board and plan to stay here year round.

I remember particularly names like Moondance and Whit and fruitbat and the BB angels from year 1 and of course Neil and Enbwife.

Now TVCH is just about the only site I spend much time at on any given day

Daydreamer

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 02:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Someone posted the link on another board I post on. I'm so glad they did! I love it here!

Bandit

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 02:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah the memories....

I've been here since BB1. My sister-in-law (Caffeinebuzz as she was then) found this board and she started posting during the live feeds. She showed it to me and instantly I was hooked!

There's no getting rid of me now!