Re: 10 years at Gupshup
Degas:
10 years - seems lot. I may not be the ealiar lot who joined Gupshup or who had a profound impact on it but I have seen a lot of drama over the years.. for the newest lot I have been too lazy to follow the crowd due to my pre-occupations..
11th July 2000 when I was student in USA I had a great time at gupshup enjoying its politics and frantic scenes. As an newcomer I used to refresh pages to se who replied to my stupid posts. One thing i love to state that it was great company especially at chat with Kaka-Atom_Bomb , alezay , NorwayGirl, X2, NYAhmadi , Waheed, Engrezi, etc… Best part was there wasnt anything that serious be it religion section or politics..
I thank all those who gave me company and still look forward for gupshup success…
Degas
joined in 1999 and posted but forgot my ID, IRC was more popular those days :D. Then I joined back in 2003, I do remember seeing the nicks KKA, aleezay (had ‘scorpion’ as avatar), X2, NYAhmadi, chaltahai. Had more interaction with
socrates:
“NYahmadi”
where is he now?
And how do YOU know him?
there wasn’t anything serious in religion and politics forums?? You must not be venturing much there back then. From '98 until few years onwards was the time when dark evil forces of chaos, mayhem and revenge would run amok on these two forums. No mercy, no prisoners taken! All you had to do just open a single thread in any one of these forums about qadyanis vs muslims, sunni vs shais, Pakistanis vs Indians and there would be instant bloodbath and public lynching of your opponents with cries of despair of the victims shaking up the entire board.
Despite highly passionate and partisan views, the quality and depth of discussion was way superior to what those two forums have been reduced to lately.
And who was you? I used to live in religion forum :D, all those Shia/Sunni/Qadiani discussions.
Goodness!!!
For me also,I am completing my 10th year on GS.
Deagas,I remeber you.You always used to go for that Beer Mug' icon in chat.I remember Aleezay,Puther Jibran(a fantastic Guppy from Burmingham),Waleed,Who-me(A very good guy),Wickedwitchjoftheeast,Mr.Furadia............. Again Muzna used to come in at times.......... (?).................... ,Fantastic 1(Chowkidar from Lahore) :p , The chat was really great in 2001-2003 period... Again we had the famous thread openers…
Then Mursalin and others… Andhra and others(Indian Guppies from US)… Then Kabir,CM etc…
I think we did not have complaint/feeback forum,Life1 etc during those times…
Again I remember PCG,Naik Larki… Q.Naik Larki
Threads which got opened post 9/11 ,during the ousting of Taliban,The Indian Parliament attack(I remember one of the moderators had opened the thread and he was actually having a smiling smiley ,when he mentioned abt the attack),again the 2002 stand-off between India and Pakistan and one thread opened by the member Abdali `The I.S.I strikes at vengeance’ ,all are real worth mentioning…
I think GS was giving pakistanmail ids to all members… ???
What was your old ID? I remember rvikz, chaltahai, kabir, Mursalin, khan-sahib, confused, gadha, Asif_K, Nikema, tariq786, sambralian and many others.
I don’t remember ehsan though
j/k
whats your old ID?