Popular Post Ricard 2,540 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 JWFAN was born 20 years ago tonight!  I will be adding some related surprises to this main post in the coming days.  Let the celebration begin! 🎂🥂🎉🎊🎈   jwfan06, toothless, John and 41 others 38 6
Popular Post LaloCoyoacan 51 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 Certainly a place from where I learned a lot, although I usually don't post I enjoy everybody's adventures Thank you and congratulations Sunshine Reger, Cerebral Cortex, Ricard and 4 others 7
Popular Post Ii2 210 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 34 minutes ago, Ricard said: JWFAN was born 20 years ago tonight!  I will be adding some related surprises to this main post in the coming days.  Let the celebration begin! 🎂🥂🎉🎊🎈 Congrats, JWFan!!! 20 years and certainly counting! crumbs, Once, Ricard and 2 others 5
Popular Post The Five Tones 305 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 I can't think of a single site that I've spent as much of my life at, and I know that will be true for many others. I began visiting in 1999 by dial-up, and more frequently when I got ADSL in 2000. It took me a year or two to work up the courage to get a user account. Parenthood and career (i.e. life) have made it a challenge to keep up, but I am always in a state of awe for those that do. Congratulations and thank you Ricard, Jay, the core team and everyone else who has made this place an indispensable part of the experience of the ongoing, still very much in progress and fully operational musical output of John Towner Williams. We lived - we live - in the time of John Williams. Enough said. crumbs, Will, Jurassic Shark and 10 others 13
Popular Post Holko 12,019 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 When's the expanded reissue coming? crumbs, Jurassic Shark and Falstaft 3
Popular Post Incanus 5,889 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 Happy 20th Anniversary!   Cerebral Cortex, crumbs, filmmusic and 4 others 7
Popular Post Thor 9,347 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 Congrats, JWFAN. And looking forward to seeing your surprises, Ricard. Â As usual when these anniversaries come about, I think about our pre-JWFAN days, when we hung out and chatted in each other's Yahoo groups. Unfortunately, your Yahoo groups ("Heroic Film Music Club" or the John Williams one, the direct precursor to your Phantom Menace/Williams/JWFAN project)Â no longer exist. But I've decided to keep my own groups, really just as a museum artifact, including my Steven Spielberg group. I tried to go through the back catalogue of that group, to find any of your posts from 1998/1999. While the topics themselves still display, it seems that the content of the posts was deleted some time ago. Sadly. But I still took the below screenshots for memory's sake. Â First image: You were actually the fourth member to join the group, on December 7, 1998 (out of 400). The second image displays some of the topics you participated in from the get-go. Â As for JWFAN itself, I'm sure you can find some old screen grabs at archive.org, just for nostalgia's sake. Â mstrox, Ricard, Incanus and 3 others 4 2
bollemanneke 4,321 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Surprises, eh? The shawm? IT'S THE SHAWM!
Josh500 1,620 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Wow, congrats!  20 years... And I've been a member for 15 of them. That's crazy!  As a surprise, I expect John Williams himself to make a special appearance here.... bollemanneke 1
Jay 45,801 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 20 years, hard to believe it!  It would have been May of 1999 when I discovered how to rip clean music out of the "The Phantom Menace" PC video game, and posted instructions and a "cue list" to rec.music.movies, and then emailed Ricard the same info, and he put my email on the main page. Then I joined the forums and the rest is history! Ricard 1
Popular Post #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 Congratulations JWfan! Â I joined somewhere late spring/early summer of 2000. Â Probably had the highest postcount a few months later. Ricard, The Illustrious Jerry and bollemanneke 3
KK 3,310 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 A very happy birthday to JWFan indeed! I joined in 2011 I believe, just around the War Horse/Tintin hype. Haven't been able to escape since.  To 20 more years! The Illustrious Jerry and Ricard 2
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 4 minutes ago, KK said: I joined in 2011 I believe, just around the War Horse/Tintin hype  N00b!
Popular Post #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 My smirking face will be the last thing you see! Â Mark my words! bollemanneke, Johnnyecks and Ii2 2 1
Popular Post Johnnyecks 33 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 Holy hell! 20 years! Time really does fly. I joined, as far as my hazy memory serves me, back in 1999 after seeing the new trailer to Phantom Menace. Before here, I was mostly active on FSM and random ICQ chat groups. I remember way back then trading a certain Danny Elfman promo, that took HOURS to send so it was sent track by track by track. Oh how innocent those days were.  And how different life is now both in the music world, internet, and my own personal life.  Sometimes I long to go back to those simpler, easier times. Once, Ricard and bollemanneke 3
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 1 minute ago, Johnnyecks said:  Sometimes I long to go back to those simpler, easier times.  I hear ya! Johnnyecks 1
karelm 3,271 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Happy birthday to you! So who was the first post from? It better not be stiff with some lame comment like "one day I will have over 126,000 posts on this site...you all just wait and see" or some other such nonsense. John Williams wrote this for us!  The Illustrious Jerry 1
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 1 minute ago, karelm said: So who was the first post from? It better not be stiff with some lame comment like  45 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Congratulations JWfan!  I joined somewhere late spring/early summer of 2000.  Reading is difficult, right?
Wojo 2,458 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Happy Birthday to our little crew! Ricard 1
Jill Sandwich 11,030 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 For an entire generation... people have experienced JWfan... the only way it's been possible... on the desktop interface. But if you've only posted this way... you haven't posted at all. Xander Harris 1
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Why isn't this in General Discussion? Â Maybe @Jay should move it?
Jay 45,801 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Please leave the moderating to the moderators, Stefan. Thank you.
Ii2 210 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 1 hour ago, Johnnyecks said: Sometimes I long to go back to those simpler, easier times. Without a smartphone? Â
Johnnyecks 33 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 2 minutes ago, Ii2 said: Without a smartphone? Â Â Oh I would LOVE that! When you can actually be free from distractions and constantly updating app notifications and immediate response required text messages... you can go on a drive without hearing a multitude of pings and rings or even, gasp, drive in silence. Â When I was younger I badly wanted to have a cell phone, also badly wanted to grow up and learn to drive. Â The fear and panic that gets instilled in one's self if they leave their house without their phone. How will they get to their destination without GPS? What if there is traffic or an accident? How will they go on with their day if they don't get an alert saying that their calendar event is about to start in 30 mins? Â How did we live without them? Â Easily. We just DID. Â They are a convenient inconvenience. Â Smeltington 1
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 They're a basic human right!
Johnnyecks 33 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 41 minutes ago, Stefancos said: They're a basic human right! Smartphones? Â Don't see it on there. Â Smeltington 1
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 26 minutes ago, Johnnyecks said: Smartphones? Â Don't see it on there. Â Â Look again! Â Â Johnnyecks 1
Johnnyecks 33 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Apparently, even my old ass eyes are starting to not function properly. Â
Marian Schedenig 11,600 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 Happy birthday, JWFan! You're just a few days short now of being half as old as I am. Ricard 1
Popular Post Holko 12,019 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 Ultimate fix: Â Smeltington, Jurassic Shark, SteveMc and 2 others 3 2
phbart 703 Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 20 years? But 1999 was like 6 years ago. I was using Napster to download mp3 not more than 5 years ago. The internet itself is like 10 years old or less. The point is you don't celebrate "20th anniversary" of anything in the World Wide Web. Not enough time has yet passed. Ricard 1
Popular Post The Illustrious Jerry 3,361 Posted February 6, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 6, 2019 It's been twenty years for JW Fan, and many more on the way!  While I have only witnessed a very small fraction of this wonderful community's existence, I have certainly had one of the best years of my life. I've learned, listened and laughed plenty on JW Fan, and I hope to continue to do so for many years to come. It truly is a haven for so many wonderful people who share the same interests.  Thanks to @Jay, @Ricard, and the moderating team, and to the chums (you know who you are!), and to all the members! Thank you so very much! Ii2, SteveMc, Jurassic Shark and 1 other 4
SteveMc 2,687 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 20 years? What have we accomplished in that time? We did beat MySpace, there's that.  Clumsy humor aside, I love this place, warts and all, and I think it has done wonders towards the wider appreciation and understanding of John Williams.  Let's keep it up, guys. Here's to 20, 30, 40 more, if the earth will last that long. Ii2 and The Illustrious Jerry 2
Cerebral Cortex 3,365 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 I like this website. Ricard and The Illustrious Jerry 2
Hlao-roo 390 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 Congratulations, Ricard! Ricard and SteveMc 2
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,173 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Hlao-roo said: Congratulations, Ricard! Â You're back!
mstrox 7,339 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 Happy 20th, @Ricard! That also means it's a 20th anniversary of my meeting and knowing so many of you people who have also been around from the beginning - it's (mostly) been a pleasure! Here's to 20 more Ricard and SteveMc 2
Dr. Rick 1,371 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 Happy 20th B-day, JWFan! Hard to believe I signed up here 13 years ago next week! Here's to 20 more years! Ricard 1
Ii2 210 Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 3 hours ago, Stefancos said: 5 hours ago, Hlao-roo said: Congratulations, Ricard! Â You're back! Who dat.
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