I remember When...

[Serconea]

I was seriously considering joining The New Meritocracy before I got the invite for here.

[Otupia]

I remember when I joined 10000 Islands when you could straight out Join without the 1 month Help period.
and no welcom commmitee like we have now

[Henneth annun]

Me, too. I joined before the Advent of Taco Island.

[zarmarsar]

Hey none of you know me, but I remember when I first saw my friend's "Nation" in his profile, I wanted one too. I faithfully resolved issues for Zarmarsar everyday, and moved to the Monarchy region, which I failed to notice had a message board. Then I forgot about my nation for a month or so and when I remembered it, it was gone. So Zarmarsar the Second was born, joined the UN, and was rapidly invited to 10000 Islands. Fortunately the TG mentioned going to the message board and joining TITO, so I did so, not really understanding how regions got invaded and how TITO helped. I kinda goofed my first mission in the North Pacific (sorry), but after reading some of the stuff on the History and Library I think I get it now and hope to become more involved as time goes on.

[Eterne]

My friend read Jennifer Government- I never did, but I discovered NS after a Google search. I was plopped in one of the Pacifics when I first came to NS. Ad Infinitum invited me, among other recruiters, and I went straight to 10000 Islands because his telegram was the most personalised (yep I examined all of them because I had hardly any clue as to which region was the best for me.)
Interestingly he commented that my nation's name was kinda similar to his in meaning I think.
Kaom was my sponsor, though the word wasn't used to describe the person who guides you through your first few weeks of NS then. (Actually I wonder where she's now, I hardly see her in the forum nowadays.) A big thank you to AI, Kaom, and Grub, and all the other 10000 Islanders whom I met after the first few weeks!

[Serconea]

There's a picture on the NS site of when the game had only 14 nations.

[Alfonia]

Cool

Anyone out there that's in my "generation"? A lot of you have been CTEing lately...

There are those who are older, and newer nations as well, but heck, no nations of the same age:(

[Alfonia]

Long time since anyone posted here... sad to look through the thread and see the names of nations we knew so well that have CTE'd a long time ago... well... sad as i said

How many of us are there left that can remember the chaos before the taco island was introduced? all the silly threads and serious threads and polls used to be in the same forum;D Think Himes was the delegate back then but I'm not sure really

[Parthini]

I came when Himes was on.

Good times.

GPP

[Sheynat]

I came in near the end of Parthini's delegateship.

[Korallia]

alfonia said:

Long time since anyone posted here... sad to look through the thread and see the names of nations we knew so well that have CTE'd a long time ago... well... sad as i said

How many of us are there left that can remember the chaos before the taco island was introduced? all the silly threads and serious threads and polls used to be in the same forum;D Think Himes was the delegate back then but I'm not sure really

Heh, I remember that. That's when ALEN and I got together to work on an entertainment committee. I don't think I was ever hear with Himes as the delegate though.

[Estayland]

I think Boktavia was delegate when I came.

[Korallia]

Was Parthini delegate before Boktavia?

edit: I think I got here during Parthini. According to the delegate list, Taco Island, the answer to the entertainment committee, either started at the end of Parthini's term or right at the beginning of Boktavia's term.

[Alfonia]

ALEN... Surely among the most missed 10k islanders... I wonder how many of our games in the taco island he created...

[Kindrik]

I remember coming in while Fleeb was delegate. Around 400 nations were around. CTE for a while. Came back around now with 250. What happened

[Hockeynutville]

250 eh? Pretty soon you'll be looking at 200 in a few weeks. 600 seems like a very long time ago....

[Kindrik]

To me it felt like the past school year (roughly 9 or 10 months) went by real fast, but when I first joined the islands feels like it happened years ago (6 months have passed) how does that work out