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madurofan
madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

So let’s see who’s a real OG. What was this forum before it was CCom? And bonus points, anyone who was actually a member back then?

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  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭

    yup. I remember.
    But I'm like the 16th member to join THIS forum.

    I'll hold back

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 9,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m 4 years behind y’all

  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    I came over from the old forum, you did too right Kuz? Didn’t we have to reregister or reactivate or something? Bc I show May 2008 as my join.

  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    @Vision said:
    I’m 4 years behind y’all

    Still lurking and scaring off all the decent folk?

  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭

    I've been on 3 different iterations of the ccom forum.
    I'm an old fart. Here when the forum was in HTML, and the forum when it wasn't hosted by ccom themselves.

  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    @kuzi16 said:
    I've been on 3 different iterations of the ccom forum.
    I'm an old fart. Here when the forum was in HTML, and the forum when it wasn't hosted by ccom themselves.

    Dude the HTML days when we wanted quote someone we had to basically write code 🤣

  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    And seriously what happened to Svenson?

  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭

    No clue. He and I lost touch a long time ago.

  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    Yea. He changed his cell, doesn’t have LinkedIn. I seriously wonder if he’s alive. Last I heard he was doing a little consulting but nothing in at least 3 years.

  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,889 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @kuzi16 said:
    No clue. He and I lost touch a long time ago.

    Good to see ya around Kuzi

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 9,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @madurofan said:

    @Vision said:
    I’m 4 years behind y’all

    Still lurking and scaring off all the decent folk?

    Decent it’s subjective😛

  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The html forum was fun.
    AND you could edit your post 3 months later. LOL!

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don’t remember all the details but I followed @Kuzi over here from a forum that also had to do with guns and firearms and such as well as cigars. I don’t remember the forum name but you probably will, Kuzi.

  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭

    I do remember.
    I'll spill the beans if nobody has guesses

  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    Haha.

  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭

    BTW, it’s great to see you back, @Kuzi.... 👍

  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,187 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome home @madurofan !!!

    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Trident
    Trident Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭✭

    ive been around for a while as well, maybe not as long as you guys have, but do remember at least 2 formats of this forum. I still have some of the OG forum blend!

    As regard to Svenson, he is well and working with scandanavian tob. We talk periodically and play catch up. Hope you guys are well!

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,373 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll be missing out as we've started a fire pit Friday tradition as a family to give us something to look forward to in these trying times.

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  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    @Trident said:
    ive been around for a while as well, maybe not as long as you guys have, but do remember at least 2 formats of this forum. I still have some of the OG forum blend!

    As regard to Svenson, he is well and working with scandanavian tob. We talk periodically and play catch up. Hope you guys are well!

    Trident I definitely remember you man. Glad to see some of the old guys are still around. I didn’t mean to turn this into a **** measuring contest. I was gonna throw a bomb to anyone who remembered the original forum.

    Man glad to hear Svenson is well. What’s he doing with Scandinavian? Always a good dude.

  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the kind words.

    The original cigar.com forum was hosted by AmBack it was a forum that I dont think even exists. Stood for "American backyard" and was an outdoorsman forum. Ccom partnered with them for a forum section but eventually made it on their own with the html version.

    The reviews were pretty difficult near the end. So much time and effort put into each review, it just started to feel like work. Just burned myself out.
    Lots of good learning though.

  • Bigshizza
    Bigshizza Posts: 15,659 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hope you guys are all doing well

  • ForMud
    ForMud Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Such a great wealth of knowledge from you "Ancient Ones" I know I appreciate it.

  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭

    @ForMud Haha. Thanks man. The level of knowledge on this forum has grown every time I’ve popped in. I remember a time when Kuzi was the only person I knew who’d been to a cigar factory. I’m sure a bunch of you have by now!

    @kuzi16 well my intention was to send a little something to the first person to recall AMBACK, so is your address the same?

    I don’t think I ever posted there, maybe once or twice. But I started there then moved here. I don’t even recall how the transition even worked.