Haloscan Roll Call

I started reading the blog in late 2005, so I def remember Haloscan, though I don’t think I commented much back then. Things used to be a lot more hectic and irreverent back then. Ahh, how times change.

but I was around for Compuserve.  Yes.  I'm old.

I was there. This is actually my second go-round. I think I was banned for being the original UNACCEPTABLE guy back in 2007. Oh and stating I saw Dann Oneil at a water polo match while he was still in high school and saying he was fat as fuck (he was). Good times.

but clearly by making this account right when accounts became a thing, I must've been around for a little whole before then. I think I must've first been introduced to MGoBlog somewhere in the bowels of GG Brown my sophmore year in 07-08 because I remember reading about OL recruiting in that 2008 class (the one with Mealer and Dannnn O'Neill I think) and making an account right when it became a thing

RIP handlejacking

I posted occasionally, especially during the Year of Infinite Pain.  We thought that was the floor for the program!  If only we didn't know now what we didn't know then.

I think I found mgoblog through Mike Desimone's stuff.  I then moved to Texas in '08 and basically didn't start being an "active" person again until 2012 when I moved back to Michigan.  Brian's stuff then, as now, was just a cut above.  I just remember reading his missives and thinking "Yep, that's it.  You nailed it.  Right there."  Everything else at the time was (still is?) an mlive message board:  

"Lllloyd sucks!  We need to fire him and hire... Bob Stoops... Pete Carroll... Les Miles... Urban Meyer... whoever else is the current hot name in coaching..."

I remember when comments could be rated as "insighful" and "flame bait" and the like.  I always thought that was helpful.  

One can correctly presume from my join date (and avatar) that I was around in the Haloscan days. A simpler time...

Congrats to MGoBlog on its Bar Mitzvah. Today you are a man.

Haloscan was great.  Much more personal -- like being in a live conversation as opposed to trading letters.  And with the appearance that all comments basically drifted off into the ether, there was much more irreverence.  

I also seemed to have much more time in the day back then to have it up in the background and keep up with it -- I doubt that I would interact much with it today.

The current format has led to much more intelligent engagement.

Never posted in haloscan, but lurked for a while... Good times avoiding homework, surprised it's been that long, time flies.

I thought the original platform was called Flight Tracker. Now that, was an adeventure!

A "Go Blue!" to all of the old faithful and a "thank you" to Brian and staff.   

I had foot surgery and was laid up for a couple weeks in December of '07 and mgoblog(@blogspot) was my main source of human interaction in those days. Been hooked ever since. What was the girl's name? (There was literally ONE girl that would sit in on our nightly sausage parties.) Never going to remember... She seemed pretty cool despite some real pervy late night chats that went on here and there.

I miss Haloscan.

I lurked but never commented- i don't think.

those were the days. one night I was kind of on a roll and the whole "Coach Schiano" thing almost happened. I captured the interactions I had - check them out here.

In retrospect, glad that whole Schiano thing didn't turn out... !

Thanks to rlew and ThWard for bringing back the fun memories.

 

Remember that. I was MCHammer, when we switched I couldn’t remember the login info and have been 1 percent ever since .... except for when I login as WD or Faux_Mo

came on during "the search". those were crazy days. it was peanut butter and jelly time!

during Lloyd's last year and the coaching search.  Signed up in time for the afterglow of Rich Rod's glorious first year.

done that. 

 

EDIT: looks like there are 20-some odd of us with a 06/30/2008 join date. Hurrah for early adopters of the new site 

Haloscan was awesome.

Good times.

Been reading since 05! Was a long time lurker before creating my account. I love this place. Happy teenage years MGo!

Been a reader since '06 or '07. Still don't post much but check and read every day.

Those were the days of pure MGoChaos. It was (mostly) fun while it lasted.

Not sure that my join date reflects it but yes, I remember those dates.  Difficult to believe it's been 13 years.  Great site and one of my few daily stops.

In general, I mostly lurk to get a different perspective. I was introduced to this by my Michigan co-worker, when I was still living in exile in Washington DC. He found it, and the old Mzone, when he was looking for something to compliment/counter content from the Ozone I would share with him.

Bonus points for anyone who remembers Brian's Haloscan username.

Those years got me through undergrad!

Present

(sound of one hand clapping)

I joined a couple months after the changeover.  Needed an upgrade from my Vic20 modem just so the Russian brides side banners didn't slow down my page loads.

Present.

Got me into it in 2010. Just realized it's been 6 years yesterday since I actually made an account

Here.

The first mogocontent I remember reading was Brian’s South Park-y comic strip describing what it was like watching the 4th quarter of the Vince Young rose bowl. Priceless catharsis that

Great thread. 

I have no idea when I first visited/posted, but I joined Lions Den in 99(?) and later some of us used to come over to talk M Football, but not regularly.  So thanks to those that kept posting. Don't remember usernames, but only commented to say glad MGO is alive and well. 

But some of the long threads were funny and had nothing to do with Brian's original post. A lot of Carr bashing in some of the comment threads  in '05 then again '07. Finally decided to join a little over a year after the new site. I remember posting on the Ann Arbor news sport site in 2000 before it fell down the shitter in '06 and '07 and became mlive.