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Old Jun 28, 2006 | 09:46 PM
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I asked this question in Off Topic and no one seems to know when the Corvette Forum was first begun by Troy Roberts.
I don't know and I am just curious.
I know it existed before April 1999 but don't know the month and year it was started.
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Originally Posted by ksbunting
I asked this question in Off Topic and no one seems to know when the Corvette Forum was first begun by Troy Roberts.
I don't know and I am just curious.
I know it existed before April 1999 but don't know the month and year it was started.
Thanks,
Kurt

I don't exactly know...but will pose this questions in the moderator/admin area to see if anyone there knows
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After being referred to the member list by someone and looking at the dates they joined, I guess it might have been sometime in February of 1999 although I saw two 1969 dates, unless they are misprints.
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Originally Posted by ksbunting
After being referred to the member list by someone and looking at the dates they joined, I guess it might have been sometime in February of 1999 although I saw two 1969 dates, unless they are misprints.
The 1969 dates are bogus. Looks like February, 1999 was right.

Originally Posted by savewave
Troy registered in Feb. '99, but my understanding is that the Forum existed for maybe several weeks before that.

I was hanging around at Alt. Autos Corvettes on usenet at the time and checked out the Forum but didn't sign up until later. I thought it was so much slower than usenet that it would never work!
Originally Posted by GDaina
I was on Yankee Lady when Troy came and announced about the forum. Yankee Lady folded withn a few weeks when a bunch of Mustang guys trashed Yankee Lady in retaliation when a member went there and bad mouthed the Stangs.

This all occured in Feb, 99
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Thank you for responding to my question.
Looks like February 1999 is the start date.
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Originally Posted by ksbunting
Thank you for responding to my question.
Looks like February 1999 is the start date.
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