Anyone still here who joined in 2006 or earlier?

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Just ... hello really.

I consider myself a bit of an oldie but there might be people still here who were posting from the very start (circa 2000/01 ish?).

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to go back 10-12 years on Mumsnet. Would it look significantly different? I remember lots of scandals about the changing of the appearance of the site. I guess there would be fewer adverts, sliders and pop-ups?

Woud we still have lots of threads headed like this
MamaGwhereareyou**

Hot topics of conversation might be baby modelling and the MMR. I can't honestly remember.

What do you recall about the early days of MN if you were here then?

I remember you and your tablet prettybird. I had some at that Christmas meetup .

And, yes, of course Zombie deserves a mention .

Dd was born in early 2001 and I joined soon after she was born. It was so quiet in the early days. You could check for new threads/posts in the afternoon after being on in the morning and there would be 3 or 4new ones to read. Justine and Carrie used to post a lot iirc, just on normal threads.

And yes I still read up the page. Could never get used to going down even though I do on every other website.

I remember Cod, Riven, Greensleeves, FrannyandZooey.

Yep, moldies was Twiglett and Littlelapin's brainchild.

I've been here since 2004, always this name. I remember riven, crying my eyes out at work about misdee's husband, cod etc

Been here forever!

Ive been here since 2004..had lots of name changes

Dont think id be here now of it wasnt for mumsnet

2006 for me. I remember getting an email from Stgeorge to say misdees dh ,s transplant was going ahead. I was on an ongoing thread which lots of people moaned about. I used to be on the word game also along with Samcro ( in her old name ) Tn0g , Talcy, and lots of others. We would nearly get through a thread in a couple of days as we all chatted so much.

Ah yes, littlelapin. Appeared from nowhere and took over the board. Then relentlessly spammed with that book thing, you know the Avon for books mummy business thing, name escapes me.

I think I joined in 2000 - you used to be able to see on your profile when you became a member, but I can't find it now. My reg no is 1183 anyway, I can see that much.

I managed to swerve the whole moldies debacle; I was otherwise engaged with family stuff anyway. I find I have more time to peruse MN now I'm officially old, but do struggle to find threads which are engaging/ enlightening/ entertaining these days.

Usborne?

2006 here. I was SoleSource

Possibly, yes, stealth.

Does anyone remember StrandedPolarBear, my almost name twin?

I remember the Stranded poster

At least - someone who remembers me or at least my tablet

I've checked back and it looks like I started posting in August 2001 - which means I probably joined a few months before that before I summoned up enough courage to actually post

That should read "At last "

I was a little later, serial lurker in 2008. I genuinely looked for advice at that time and it was a great place to not feel alone with my worries- with my first DC I worried so much, all the time. I’m now onto DC number 4 so I’m well into winging it these days.

Point is, I remember it being a much kinder place. Less biscuits.

Yes I joined in 2006 when ds2 was just three and diagnosed with hfa. It was recommended to me by his paediatric nurse who evaluated him. I never posted much at the start about it (and after a couple years they ‘took away’ his dx anyway). Got stuck in to all the threads then never left. I think I prob spent a long long time lurking. I had many different user names though so wouldn’t be recognisable as an ‘oldie’

I've been here since 2002 or 2003 I can't remember exactly, but a long time.
Reading this is making me remember the old names Morningpaper, Aitch, Cod etc

I mainly posted on behaviour there weren't that many.

And Twiglett!

I remember StrandedBear, with her surprise baby at university, that somebody said wasn't quite s much of a surprise as she made out? Then some sort of combined ban/flounce.

I think I remember you posting the reason for your name Stealth, did you have a big white fluffy dressing gown and leap out on you DH or something? Not a stalker, promise!

We haven't had a "What's for dinner?" thread for a while have we? They used to be daily.

Was here in 2004, I remember lovely threads about which brushed cotton nighties to buy for our dd's. We would probably be stoned for our elitist ways now.

I loved looking for the unanswered threads and bumping/creating random threads to get others off the page.

I’ve been here since 2006 but under a few different names. I joined just as the SWMNBN (aka Gina Ford) thing kicked off.

Back then it was much much more baby focused I think. Loads of threads about green poo, fore milk and hind milk, and a few about other things. It’s totally the opposite now - lots of ‘life in general’ stuff now.

Completely agree with NomDePlume about Dittany.