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Originally Posted by bck
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Didn't it crash once and everything was lost? Would have been around 2000 which is why so many of us have the 2000 join date. Maybe that's why the server or whatever it was needed to be upgraded.
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Good background info. It was not a paid member site when I first stumbled across it.
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Originally Posted by Griff
(Post 4651674)
October of 2000 is when it became an actual forum/message board where you had to register with a screen name in order to post. Prior to that it was basically a chat room with a classified section. Maybe about 6 months later, Jeffery needed to upgrade the server and asked for 300 people to contribute $30. You got a Charter Member sticker and T-shirt for the contribution. Charter members also got all the perks that the future paid memberships would have for free forever. There were not actually any paid memberships at the time and maybe only a couple sponsors.
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OSO Chicago
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Originally Posted by Griff
(Post 4651674)
October of 2000 is when it became an actual forum/message board where you had to register with a screen name in order to post. Prior to that it was basically a chat room with a classified section. Maybe about 6 months later, Jeffery needed to upgrade the server and asked for 300 people to contribute $30. You got a Charter Member sticker and T-shirt for the contribution. Charter members also got all the perks that the future paid memberships would have for free forever. There were not actually any paid memberships at the time and maybe only a couple sponsors.
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Still here. I'm a cruiser guy now, but the water calls me just as much.
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Yep, have t-shirts and stickers to prove it, LOL
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. Very little in the way of Offshore Powerboating sites back in 2000. Came across the site, they had me when I saw a member "Blonde Cig Chick" who owned a Gun with twin 900s IIRC. Seemed to be a SCOPE member site so I lurked for the better part of a year before joining. Found out much later that the site was in its infancy when I started lurking. I remember the Charter Membership thing didnt realize the $30 was to upgrade the server, maybe I should have read it lol .......LOTS of drama over the years holy sh it! I remember saying that the name should be changed from OSO to "As The Propeller Turns".Have been boating steadily since I bought my first boat in '95 The race car takes up time these days. I have minimums now....if the weather isnt calling for 75 or higher I dont go out lol
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