How did you find Mumsnet?

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Apologies if this has been done before.
I can't actually remember how I found it, but I must have signed up at some point, as I got one of the weekly emails, and there was a thread about things you didn't know before you had children which had me pmsl, so I started to join in more with the discussions.
That thread was hilarious, but I can't find it anywhere!
So how did everyone come to be here? Just curious!

saw the website advertised at the end of mums the word!

googled my old school and there was a conversation between oliveoil and katierocket mentioning it - hooked!

Googled something to do with my dd and got a link to it, been on ever since, the funny thing is i have looked at other sites such as babyworld, and they just do nothing for me...i like the way mumsnet is set up with active convo's etc.

Used to lurk over Misdee's shoulder when we lived in the same block of flats.
It's all her fault!!

An article in The Sunday Times a couple of years ago. Recall it described wickedwaterwitch in very glowing terms.

I was looking for a miracle cure for excema. I found it on another site but there was lots of useful info on MN and I became addicted quite soon after!

I heard about it from a friend

I saw a little notice on the board in the library.
The boys were 3yo and very much a handful,thought I could use any advice I could get.

googling for something to do with ex husbands when I as moving away from mine! Didn't come back until a year later when I was pg with the dts.

I was googling 'how to set up a babysitting circle' and got sucked in. That was 2002

saw a thing on tv about the founders of the site

my DH found it when we were looking for reviews of prams when expecting DS1 - I think he's regretted telling me about it ever since

My son is allergic to dairy, eggs and nuts. I think I put something in a search engine and found Mumsnet.... That was about 2 years ago... been hooked ever since...

Was googling for something else. Just popped on for a quick look, and am still here 3 years later.

It was mentioned on the Babyworld site (before they kpet such tabs on mentions of other sites and I came acorss and had a look.

Was disconcerted at first - didn't like the "long" threads, plus I "knoew" people on Babyworld - but once I realsied it was actually mcuh more user friendly, ie you don't have to keep clicking in and out of messages becasue you can see the whole thread, I got hooked.

There were also one or two people I "recognised" from Babyworld, which helped.

A friend put me onto it. She's banned from talking to me about scrapbooking in case I catch that addiction too!

saw an article about it in the times - there's still a link to it on the home page.

ditto times mag must have been spring 2003

A friend put me onto it too, only been signed up for 4 weeks or so, and am already addicted! Thanks dear friend, you know who you are!

\link{http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1061560_1,00.html\this} is the Times article I read. Although I'm sure it went on about how blonde and chic WickedWaterWitch is and it doesn't mention it there. Must have dreamt that part up...

Another Times mag in early 03. They've got a lot to answer for.

we were the creme de la creme intake
no shoddy text wpek
merely literary rferences adn a lovely b lend of snobbery combined with pedantry

there was a launch article in the paper, must have been ages ago- there were barely any members then! Stopped when I went back to work then came back, wenta gain and now back and addicted.