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?

2003😎

Wow, this is like a journey through the last 14 years of my life. I joined in 2004. Mumsnet has seen me through 2 babies, 1 divorce, being a step parent, another separation, and now teens. I have had a huge amount of support from people on MN.

One lady who I "met" on a thread full of MNers going through separation became a lifeline for me at a really awful time. She knows who she is!

Ones who stand out the most - catsmother, composhat, Tiktok, COD, TimeForme, Hula, HullyGully, Anniegetyourgun, as well as all the others that everyone else has mentioned.

I remember chaos phone incident! Was funny...for us!

Loved junglist and how she kept snaking back after being banned

I used to love the competitive bohemian threads. Like this one

And this one

There just seemed to be a lot of stealth references to posters’ own arty, intellectual, Grauniad-loving lifestyles back then. Now it’s all competively Waitrose MC.

Timeandtune, Skye is still here with a different name. Her now exH is a truly horrible man and among the most pathetic excuses for a father that I have come across, very sadly.

Wasn’t there an early iteration of a troll ( before the troll word was invented) who give lots of legal advice til someone caught them out?

Legal advice troll was Judge Flounce. Went on for years iirc, certainly months.

That was so funny. Judge Flounce was really part of the in crowd 😂

It was funny when the real lawyers on mumsnet figured he had no clue what (he) was talking about.

Wasn't he actually a guy named Steve from Pontypridd? 🤣🤣

@BALD lovely to see you baldy.
I have you to thank for every single week when I do my food shop in Aldi, passing the crisps section and having a little smile at 'Prangles'. I don't remember anything else from that thread apart from Prangles.

I have been here on and off since 2006, but only posting regualrly since 2011. I was here when Jeffreygate was happening in real time. And I got a mention twice in the weekly chat round up email.

I didn't see it on the thread, but only skim read so could have missed, but has anyone mentioned that Maryz has been banned?

Scribbley just for old times sake:
Prangles

I joined in 2006/7 - the Sleep Is For The Weak threads got me through a hellish time with non-sleeping baby DS1 (now a strapping high school kid who still wakes early but knows not to get me out of bed before 8.30 on a weekend )

The cliques really could be cliquey and offputting, but there was a lot of kindness and many more funny threads. These days I stick to the book topic.

I joined 2003 I remember all the posters mentioned by others it really was so much smaller then. I have name changed a few times but my old name has mentioned as being support for someone and I'm so touched!

I am sad that MN is less supportive now. Not sure I would ever start a thread in need of support it's too harsh these days!

I think I joined in 2008 but it might have been a bit earlier.

However my MN claim to fame is that I am the Tiger of the Penguins and was the MNetter who went on that date. It was bloody brilliant!

I have been here since 2003, this post makes me realise how much I have forgotten

I joined when I got pregnant with my son.. He's 12 now!

Thanks for the Prangles memories bald.
You and I and others also wrote the sequel to the Chanel no 5 'I love to dance' Nicole Kidman advert. It had a squirrel, a muff and a hot air ballon iirc.

The penguins date was hilarious!

I used to love the sign offs on posts made by tigga

I Haines around 2005. Was struggling to conceive at the time and stumbled across the wonderful world of mumsnet.

It's been a constant in my life ever since to varying degrees.

Over the years posters like cod, Riven and AnyFucker stick in my mind. Plus a wonderful lady who lost her husband and needed some help to get her home sorted. There was a huge amount of online support for her, and some mumsnetters turned up IRL to help her, I can't remember her name though.

Oooh yes how could I forget Hully, and LeQueen!

I joined in 2006 after reading about the SWMNBN situation. After about 2 minutes I knew I'd found my people. I'd adopted 2 DC under 2yo earlier in the year and was just starting to struggle. It's helped me get perspective on a lot of things over the years.

I joined in 2006 or thereabouts. It was so much smaller then, cliquey too but I gave away so much personal info compared to now and kept the same username for about 6/7 years, I literally change it every couple of weeks now which is sad in a way.

I remember the Madeleine McCann threads that went on forever and were so upsetting, people can be so cruel.

I loved COD but hated the cliqueiness of it all.

.... and Xenia, Coito, Dittany.

Been here since 2094, but have had to morph due to a stalker. FGS!