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ashley b
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Well I joined TVF a couple of days after it launched, can't remember the exact reasons, took me quite some time to post as I was (and still am ;) ) incredibly shy. And Dyslexic, not wanting to come across as a total twit that couldn't spell, though I eventually did.

Metropol, again, a couple of days after launch, initially to reserve my name, but posted from the start as I'd grown in confidence by that time.
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itsrobert
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Joined: Thu 14 Aug, 2003 23.28

I've always had an interest in TV Pres. As a kid, I remember looking forward to the Six O'Clock News coming on after Neighbours in the 1990s so I could hear that fabulous theme tune and cut glass graphics. I first got the internet in around 1998/9 but it wasn't until 2000 that I realised there was an active community that shared my interest. I went on holiday to Rome at that time and saw BBC World. I loved the presentation that much that I decided to look for it on the web. At that point, the big four websites were, of course, TV Home, TV Ark, The TV Room and Jim Edwards' TV World. I also loved a website called 'Round The Regions' which looked at the various regional news programmes from across the country. Towards the end of 2000 I started to help Asa by capturing clips for TV Home and put a lot of effort into getting as wide a coverage as possible of local BBC news programmes. I went on a school trip to Belgium in March 2001 (just after the BBC bomb) and when I returned, TV Forum had just opened so I instantly signed up. Asa moderated alone for the first few months and then asked me to help him in around June/July 2001. Like Gavin said, I can't believe that we've all been chatting here for 8 years. I would never have predicted that in the beginning. I joined Metropol when it opened purely to secure my username (especially with being a mod on TVF - didn't want any impersonations) and have dipped in and out as and when I have had something to say.
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itsrobert wrote:I also loved a website called 'Round The Regions' which looked at the various regional news programmes from across the country.
I miss that website, it was one of the earliest sites I visited when I started using the internet in 2001.
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barcode
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some nice person called Miss hellfire asked me to join
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Pete
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barcode wrote:some nice person called Miss hellfire asked me to join
*writes that down*
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Mr Q
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I joined whenever it says I did in the sidebar next to my posts. I believe my first post here was something economics related - so not much has changed really. ;)
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Lorns
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Hymagumba wrote:
barcode wrote:some nice person called Miss hellfire asked me to join
*writes that down*

I was drunk! I needed to amuse myself. Shot myself in the foot with that one didn't i.
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Alexia
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Joined: Sat 01 Oct, 2005 17.50

My interest in television presentation began when I found an old HTV ident on a video in around 1998 - I was 15 and our school had just got networked internet for the first time. First pres site I came across was Andrew Wiseman's TV Room, then MHP, then TVHome. Joined TVForum thereafter, albeit under a different name pre-crash. Was aware of Metropol, but only joined when I realised it was way more fun over here than over there.
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byron
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Got bored with Australian forums, joined TV Forum and eventually moved over here.
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Nini
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Joined: Fri 19 Oct, 2007 17.14

Yay, be a pal and stay around, the offer of baked goods still stands.
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Malpass93
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Joined: Thu 16 Oct, 2008 16.19
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Yesterday. I spotted the note n TVF.
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