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I was just wondering...

How did YOU hear about the asylum?

VP & WJ.

If I tell you anything more, I'll have to kill you.

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An animated gif brought me to the page once called something like Andy Art... then i got the link to Ozone and about 3 years later I found the link to this place.

                                                           

Yeah, I think it was Andy Art for me too. Brought me to Doc O's hands on tutorials. One day while visiting the tutoiral page, I saw a link to the forums. Lurked for a couple weeks, then finally joined.

heh, it's funny how long you can get lost in the ozone maze and never find the forum, I was surfing Ozones 6 months or a year before I noticed a forum link

Jason

I was collecting tutorials. Went back to Hands On for the first time in about a year. That's when I noticed the forums. I hopped right in after about 2 hours of lurking, if you can call 2 hours lurking. I still remember my first post.

faustGFX had referred me to this place (not personally).

First, I found ozones, some long time ago, searching for tips on Photoshop, using altavista, probably (the one I used most in the past; now I use mostly google). Then, sometime after, through ozones, I found asylum.

I don't remember. How did I get here?

I found 'Hands On' through a Yahoo search.


A few months after that, Doc created a forum using the "Casual Forums" software...and I've been here since.



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I got a link to ozones.com from some random guy in my "web design" class, and was very impressed (to be honest, i forget what the front page was at that time). I came back often for the next year or so, exploring, and eventually, when I knew the first few pages (near the beginning of the maze) very well, I easily noticed the link to the casual forums forum that DL mentioned. Registered there, and came here when doc transferred it.

Good question - I suspect I picked up a few wallpepers from the Doc and then marvelled at his prowess and then wandered off and wandered back and marvelled again, I think I nosed around the forum and was impressed by the quality of people here, humbled by their ability I went away to improve my skills, came back and marvelled at the Doc's work a few times, wandered through a few forums looking for a home (called in at phpbuilder and devshed), marvelled at the Doc's work some more, was searching for a site with a CSS forum to ask a question that I have never asked and never found a solution to (which will be referred to only as The Question), found the GN and wandered through to the Asylum from there.

Simple really.

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It was sometime in the second half of 1997 that I somehow stumbled across Doc's home page. I was a regular visitor to it since then and when the forum was born it didn't take me too long to join up.

. . : slicePuzzle

i was a frequent visitor of ozones.com from 1998 on. i mainly learned JavaScript from the sourcecode of docs pages. but i found the forum kinda late.

i can't remember the exactness of it.
but i *think* i found it through a search in "excite" or something....... it was on page 18 or something rediculous in the search results..... it was late... i was bored.
So i clicked the linky... came here... looked around for a bit.... hopped to hands-on..... hopped to the GN.... came back again.....
did some lurking.....
did some more lurking...
tried not to open my mouth to reveal my online ignorance...
started an account....
asked some dumb questions..... offered absolutely horrible advice..... realized i was a moron....
stopped posting.... went back to lurking....

lurk lurk lurk...
started a new account in late November of 2000... and decided that i needed to use my head and think before i started talking, or posting my attempts with photoshop if i wanted to be taken seriously.

And here i am.

I was searching for a porn site of the mentally insane...

oh... and i'd also like to say...
I remember the first time i fucked up and said something stupid towards stephen.
and i remember being put back into my place with a quickness.

milker got me good a couple times too, if i recall correctly.

woo! I found my first post! ...

                                                           

I asked a question at the GN, and was referred to the Doc, so I asked it here in what is now Outpatient Counseling.
Was flamed on my second post for even suggesting that people get ignored here. Been here ever since.
You can`t get this kind of abuse just anywhere.

Sure you can, db. You just have to try harder in other places

DG that was pretty damn funny.... Not any slimie can project my emotions of laughter right now....

Ahhhh.... Twas back in my days on the MSN Gaming Zone.... I was a regular player of a game called ants... And it was all the rage to be able to make websites back in that day. So I started my usual page builder newbie shit... Then I realized my results compared to HTML made sites were less than appealing. I also noticed... My graphics sucked! So first one of my friends who was a major warez hacker gave me an unliscenced copy of PS4. And I also d/led PSP 7. And I came to making a few graphics that were pretty cool. But I noticed my sites sucked. So one of my friends told me to go to www.htmlgoodies.com and I went on and learned the basics, got myself a hypermart accout. So after a lot of wasted weekends staying up late and working on websites I came across a website made for someone in ants. Damn I wish I could find the website... Well anyway it had a blue ball with what appeared to be some electric rings around them. I was astonished! Also I noticed this persons flash skills were pretty damn good, and I had expirimented with flash a little bit, but I never figured out how to make the little loading animation while it was loading. So one day I cought him on ZFriends for a quick second asking him how he did the loading anim and the electric orbs... His name was DuNDuNDuNDa and he had a site that was dunbox.net but it isn't there anymore. Anyway he refered me to www.ozoneasylum.com and I looked around the photoshop halls and posted my first post... I was amazed to see some of the art work done here... Actually almost shit my pants! So I joined, made a crappy sig, and started my ridiculous posts!


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I believe I was doing a Google search for Photoshop help, found one of Doc's tutorials, noticed the Asylum link, and stumbled in. Someone shut and locked the door behind me, and I've been here ever since.

I think my first post was in the Photoshop forum, and it was a while before I worked up the courage to actually visit some of the other forums here.

It's only been five months, but somehow it seems like a whole lot longer.




Cell 270

Ahhh not so long ago in the past.....I did a search for photoshop tutorials and found Doc's Hands-On tutorials and then I found the link to the Asylum and I poked around and just stayed in the shadows for a while. I have been here ever since and think this is place a one of my most visited places around the web.

Several years ago, I had Visi.com as my service provider and I was searching for photoshop tutorials so I found the Asylum though both Visi and the Hands On Tutorials.



The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH''

Wolfen's Sig Site

I was search'n for Corel Photopaint tutorials!... Back in 1998 I think -- saw docs HandsOn site --fell to my knees. Switched to using Photoshop.

Then some years later I returned to see if the man how started me on the righteous path had any more pearls of wisdom for me. Then I found the link to the forum.

My first couple of posts here were in the site reviews forum. I lurked for all of an hour. I was amazed to find such honest people and was tired of the constant "i like your stuff" or "your stuff is cool" comments that had no substance. I wanted real comments, real advice from real people who knew their shit and knew it well. Suffice to say, I found quite a few of them.

Michael said: "oh... and i'd also like to say...
I remember the first time i fucked up and said something stupid towards stephen.
and i remember being put back into my place with a quickness."

He he, I managed to do that with my second post!

~sigh~

I was bag'n him about not supporting NN4 in his new CCS only website. Which sounds like a silly thing to do but a bunch of us still used NN4 as out default browser back then (Yes, VP wasn't da only one). I, like so many other people, mistook his arrogance as part stupidity. Although it was the following email discussion with stephen that made me change over to IE5.

Oddly enough, I did go to Hands On first (which I think I found through Andy art as well), but I found the asylum through hotbot I believe. My first post? Well, I have no idea...
*starts searching*

Who is stephen?

The shock treatments must be working because I have no recollection of it at all.

< zzzztt >

Ahhh!

"the most incredible feats are often accomplished by
those who have had the most incredible challenges"

Heard about it from a friend of mine who is a lurker. Lurked for a couple of months, I was impressed by how smart and talented people were here. I also liked the sense of community and the that the inmates weren't always talking with ALL CAPS or dIfFEreNt leTteRs like on every other board. So I signed up.


-tiki, cell 478

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Well my name is in DiFfErEnT LeTtErS! But that was back in the day... I wish I could change it to Insider.

A freak frisbee accident landed me here.

-Jestah
Cell 277

Are you sure the king didn't just conclude to the fact that you were a crazy 'frick?


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It is quite the pain to type your name, InSiDeR.

Well lucky for me I just have to type "I," in the UserName box and my name and pass come up

My God, yes. I have been holding that back for all these months, but I'm finally going to let it out--I can't stand having to type your name, iNsIdEr! Do you realize that my voice undulates when I talk now because of you?!

OK, nervous breakdown averted (for the moment). Back to the subject.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure Stephen is twitch...

Shirley, you meant twItch^!

Well I'm sorry Suho! Don't bitch at me, bitch at InSiDeR!

eheh....

So thats stephen . I have been here for a year and I am still unaquainted with everyone .

edit: Appearently so Bugs, and don't call me Shirley!

I noticed that...

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[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 09-16-2002).]

i found HandsOn tutorials in 1999, and loved it.
From then, it was only a matter of time...

I was tutorial searching the web and I went from wastedyouth.org -> neofrog.com -> jlswebsource.com -> ozones.com -> ozoneasylum.com

Heh...I was in WebDesign school at the time...was searching for photoshop tuts using Metager. Found Web Developers...there was a link to Hands On. Really liked that, so I spend some time at Ozones (funny, never visited the forum, though). Found a link to the GN...hung around there for a while...very nice. Got some really good advice on how to create rubber...someone there (I think it was JKMabry) mentioned the Asylum...came over here...jumped on Jeni with my first post...(well, second. My first post was probably the worst graphic the world has ever seen...). Then I got shown 'the ropes' not sure who that was...I think it was reitsma...apologized, then I got royally burned...hehe...Ray...I'm not sure who first decided to 'have fun' with my pic...maybe Krets? It went for a whole thread...after that, I stayed, learned, grew...I've always been thankful for that...kept me humble.

Aaargghh... you know very well who I meant, Bugs! All these capital letters in the middle of names, strange characters, it's driving me insane!!!

Oh, um, I almost forgot. I'm already insane. Carry on.

Like DL, I found handson through a search engine and then the asylum.

And like Michael, f1_error put my back in place after my stoopids comments.....

Found hands_on through an altavista search for Photoshop Tutorials. Read everything carefully, went though all the tutes in order. I came across this link in amongst all the others and thought to myself 'how do you make a fourm with photoshop?'. I followed it and ended up here. I joined almost immediatley (I was a bit of a joiner in those days). I only managed ot piss off one memeber, DL, but that was when I was already a Mad Scientist.

Koan 63, written on the wall of cell number 250:
Those who Believe
Can
Those who Try
Do
Those who Love
Live

Many years ago (3? 4?) ozones.com was mentioned in a computer magazine, and being new to the internet at that time I found it most impressive of course. Balls flying around the cursor, images changing when it hovered certain places - I didn't have a clue how the Doc did these things. When I checked back a few weeks (or months?) later there was a new front page, even cooler (I think that was the Tracker) and I started learning HTML and some bits of JavaScript. I might even have stumbled across the Asylum at time, but I believe that I didn't know enough English to understand what this place was all about ... some more time later found the Gurus' tutorials through ozones.com, learned more about webdesign, went to hands-on and eventually clicked the forum link, lurked, got excited, lurked some more and finally joined around christmas last year. And a bit later I noticed that the GN also has a forum and signed up there, too.

It took me some time but I'm here now and I'll stay

kuckus (cell #282)

<Voice="Old Man">
I remember back in the day there was no GN... You had to walk 15 miles to the archives... in the snow...

Ya know... that was back during tha' war...
</Voice>

Shit it's been a while....

...I remember lurking here back when DL was nice...


Code - CGI - links - DHTML - Javascript - Perl - programming - Magic - http://www.twistedport.com
ICQ: 67751342

The person I'd like to hear from is the Doc - how did he find this place?

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*snicker*

Whoop! Sorry, this particular thread got corrupted for a few minutes, I had to rebuild the HTML from the data file.

I think I'm probably one of the first lurkers here. There's a few people here now that I knew from email, lo, these many many moons ago, but for the most part I didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to me. That was cool, at the time, or so I thought. A few years back I started to get bored with the internet. I'd check in, read my couple of little news outlets, read Dilbert, clean out my spam, it was all just getting old. Also at about this time, Malin was getting *hugely* involved with her whole "LJ" community, she had friends all over the place, they'd chat and share pictures, I became jealous, *I* needed something to do online too!

The whole live journal thing, well, that's just not me, I don't feel right just rambling on and on to an empty room, I need *feedback*, even if it's just you, clearing your throat or something. <digression>Yah yah, I know. You're probably saying something like "But doic! That sounds like heaven for you, a big empty room where you could talk and talk, endlessly, ad nauseum, etc..." Well, it ain't.</digression> Where was I? Oh yeah! I was bored, and I needed something to do to occupy my time online, since Malin was all wrapped up with *her* virtual friends, I needed some too!

Enter "Casual Forums". Well, I just checked that link, they *use* to have forums there, honest! I seem to remember an email, must've gone dot.bankrupt it seems. Maybe it was somewhere else, I misremember. ANYway, it was a cheesy online "build your own forum" site, with banner ads all over the place, I don't even think it was an asylum back then, just another OZONE place. Heh, turns out, it was fun! But, I needed my own place, so I chose the UBB software and built one on my own site. This was cool up until it started takling so much space I had no more room for webpages, bummer. Somewhere in there we became an "asylum", and after some debate (or was it just me, being a dictator?) I registered this domain and ported things over to Dreamhost. (This place is actually *why* I got involved with Dreamhost, I needed the space!)

So, that's as much of the story as I remember for now, someone else can fill in all the details of all the shite that's happened since. Mainly, I was bored. I was lonely. 2500 people showed up. Neat, huh?

Glad you came!

PS: I'm digging around, and came up with a backup of the forum from May of 2000, which I think may be as far back as we go, at least in UBB form. I'll have to finally configure my home Apache 2.0 install with Perl, but I'll try and make that available for browsing soon.

Your pal, -doc-

and for those of you not "in the know" about ray liotta....

here he is in a lovable movie....



down here he's bein' tough as nails....



And here's Ray again.... this time in the not so well known role on the A-team



=D

ROFLMAO!

omg... lol......

Ahah..... Eheh..... BAH PFFT AHAHAH!!!!!!!!

I see why taxon changed his name now . Michael you hypocrite you just couldn't stand being picked on and now you go and make WS look like a Native American mobster! Shame on you...... BLEH!!!! Man I laughed some tears out on those pics mike, thank you so much for that tedious laugh.


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[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 09-16-2002).]

I found Ozone through another tuts site called Solar Dream Studios.

I can't remember the address though, I think it might be http://www.solardreamstudios.com

Too lazy to look for sure.

I got the link to doc's page from a collegue back in -97.

Used to check in every few weeks to gasp at all the cool stuff, and suddenly there was a link to the forum.Then I lurked. For a long time, since I didn't feel I had much to contribute with.

Then, in a sudden act of megalomania, I threw my humility out the window and joined.

Can't remember that I've been thrashed for stupidity yet though. But opinions; there's another cup of tea

The names I remember most from my early days is probably twitch^, DL, Weadah, F1 and Gonzo. Oh, and Sloloem.

Anyone but me miss the sigman series?


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I was working at a company maintaining their tech support website. Just day to day adding flat HTML pages and a guy there sent me the link. At that point Doc was so far ahead of anyone else on the DHTML scene it blew my mind. I think blueprint was the door though I don't remember.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

actually, Insider.... as WS mentioned.... that all happened a long time ago.... heh...
with the exception of the A-team pic idea.... which of course... ray liotta wasn't on... but eh... i felt like being random tonight.

i think the slimie with the sign that's hitting me, was made by mahjqa if i'm not mistaken....?
and that was a bit of a retalliation slimie for all the "i'm with stupid" and "tool" slimies i was making at the time.

heh.

Yea, mahjqa made it... I think I will go to PS and make some for me now.... Excuse me....

the5k.org > ozones.com > ozoneasylum.com

When I find a javascript master with a website, I go there hoping he has a forum so that I may leech off of his smartness if ever I am in need of it.

And here i be!

Thanks for letting me leech!

Sloloem! There's a name I haven't heard in ages!

-Jestah
Cell 277

We really didnt LET you leech. You just sort of... Started sucking on us.

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We really didnt LET you leech. You just sort of... Started sucking on us.

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OK... not touching that one.

Michael: nice pics... heh

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When I find a javascript master with a website, I go there hoping he has a forum so that I may leech off of his smartness if ever I am in need of it.

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Somehow it simply doesn't seem that insider is the one genis hoped to leech off of.....maybe it's just me....


Oh, btw - Doc: yes, 2000 is as far back as teh ubb went.

<------ February of 2000 to be exact




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I'm not sure, but I probably found it through the Hands-on tutorials or the Guru's Network.

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Somehow it simply doesn't seem that insider is the one genis hoped to leech off of.....maybe it's just me....

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Nope, but it's always good to have a catalyst for comedy to give your mind a break after all that leeching. . . leechery? wait.. no that's no good.

just looking around for tuts as always. I ran into this site I forget the url. The guys name is Andy Quiv.... something. (if you happen to know the url, It would be cool to find it again). Anyways, he had a tutorial on a interface that used docs javascript rollover script and it had doc's src in it. I went to bugtown.com and became a drooling idiot. A few weeks lator, I found the asylum and here I am....

not only an inmate but an addict.

it was 1995 my first year in college .. I was surfing the net and looking for graphically inclined websites .. as to help me create my first web page .. and I stumbled upon www.ozones.com(though it wasn't ozones.com at the time) .. five years have gone by .. I watched ozones.com as the Doc continued to put out new layout after layout .. and I was amazed and speechless .. I had not visited the site much between 1998 and 2000 .. when I strolled by the site I saw the Doc started a forum and within seconds I signed up and posted .. and then I left for about another year before I finally found my way back to this place and I now visit it daily! .. actually more then daily! .. I would say I spend about 2 hrs atleast here a day .. on and off during the days

Doc has provided a great resource and a great place for artistically inclined people to meet and discuss where everyone is honest about what they like and don't like

the Asylum ROCKS!


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The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

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oohh. ohhh. oooooo! thats it! Thanks raptor!!

My borther showed me the handson site that yhe had found whhile searching for photoshop tutorials.
I did a few of those, noticed the forum link and went over looked around and was very impressed with the whole thing.

Came back a year later when I was working on a flash project for school and joined to ask how to make a dent in a piece of wood and have been a regular lurker/sporadic poster since then. Mostly just wonder around looking amazed at what the people here can do.

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