The History of Militaryphotos.net

[Skaman]

Who started the website?

How old is the website?

Where did the idea come from?

Who were the first forum users?

Who is the oldest Veteran on militaryphotos.net?

Ups and Downs and interesting stories in the life of militaryphotos.net?


Anyone know any of these details or any other relevant information?

[Fintin]

downs....when you showed up on the door step

[MetalBoy]

ups- When I stopped lurking and started contributing my intellect to the intelligent conversations 'round these parts.

[RoBBo]

all i can remember was that it was at a very different address than militaryphotos.net, and that there were no forums, ppl flamed each other under the comment section of each pic.

[Marsuitor]

Aye, i remember this site as more dedicated airsoft with some photos thrown in for enjoyment. Used to be on the aixgaming domain (airsofting site?). And best/worst of all, you were not required to register an account to post on the forum (there was only one back then). Madness!
Can't remember how i first came about the site, think it was through a link on some Flashpoint site. Anyhow, had some photos submitted and eventually gor an account. Haven't been the biggest poster though...

[Rantanplan]

Budanksi is one of the site veterans. One of the few who are since 2002 here.

Here are the 6 oldest users:

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5708/1112.jpg

Never heard of this guys. :oops:

[Hullebullen]

Militaryphotos.net was originally founded in 1843. It was the brain-child of the now famous Lt.Gen. John Schlong II (who's efforts where later recognized and he was ennobled by the Queen).

Schlong were at that point a somewhat anonymous member of the general-staff but he was a man of visions. The idea was to use the then brand new invention called Internet as a medium to discuss innovations in the military field.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8205/funny8.JPG

Sir John Schlong II Lt.Gen. (Ret)

Militaryphotos.net soon became a popular place among professionals, enthusiasts and wanna-be's alike. Below are a couple of pictures of both pro's and enthusiasts...

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6307/specops.JPG



Militaryphotos.net members SpecOpsDelta2 and Redbeard are always eager to share some war-stories...

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4102/enthusiast.JPG

Some military enthusiasts (airsofters?)


Certainly one of the oldest members (we are not sure if he in fact is the Oldest veteran on the board) must be k1ngT1g3r. He is the only member of the board who boasts having 4 tank destruction badges from the Franco-German war of 1870. k1ngt1g3r nowadays work for a private military company in the middle-east...

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/852/funny4.JPG

k1ngt1g3r, one of the oldest and most revered members of the board

Well, that concludes our little history lesson. For further reading I would recommend "Militaryphotos.net - the definite history" by John Schlong II, jr.

[Marsuitor]

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/852/funny4.JPG

I think you've misunderstood, that's an ancient picture of Hood, the Militaryphotos Grandmaster... :lol:

[Rantanplan]

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4102/enthusiast.JPG

Some military enthusiasts (airsofters?)



Nah! They are Delta.

[Gringo]

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4102/enthusiast.JPG

Some military enthusiasts (airsofters?)



Nah! They are Delta.

they can't be! No Oakleys....

[RoBBo]

:D

[Rantanplan]

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2347/Enthusiast2.jpg

:P :P :P

[Hullebullen]

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2347/Enthusiast2.jpg



rofl

Those boys are Hi-speed, for sure...

[seventy6er]

Absolutely hilarious http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/spezial/jasons_smilie/laugh.gif

[cure]

latest discovery shows this....
http://www.fmnh.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/ttt/images/caveman.jpg the founding father of militaryphotos.net....

[Catch22]

Ranta - maybe just a little Hatch or Alta kneepad for them and a KAC silencer on one of these muskets would add more spice... :D



rofl

[Vance]

Forum-wise, Budanski and Hood are the only two that have been here longer than me and still post. I started commenting in the photo album (back when you could) somewhere in August of '02

[Seoulstriker]

I have no idea when I first started posting comments to the photo section (I know that I did during the war in afghanistan and long before the iraq war).


I'm looking at the join date, and it seems like the forum was inhabited by gamers (?) from 2000 to 2002. Hood for a while was posting as a guest with the name <Hood>. Hood and Budanski registered at approximately the same time in September of 2002. After that point, the forum you see now starts to take shape and the forum grows in popularity exponentially. And they lived happily ever after. ;)

[Rantanplan]

What happend with the posts of the gamers?

BTW: I visited the site around january 2003 the first time.

[Seoulstriker]

What happend with the posts of the gamers?

BTW: I visited the site around january 2003 the first time.


I think that's where the forums were re-done. I have no idea. It's possible that this forum served as the site for [AIX] gamers, now www.aixgaming.com. There are several members of that board who were originally members of this board.

I probably visited the photo section of militaryphotos.net in late 2001/early 2002. I wish Hood could give us more of a history. :)

[Rantanplan]

Hey, and what happend to Mortimer?!?!?!

[ChuckThunder]

Hey, and what happend to Mortimer?!?!?!

And adamtheball or whatever his name was. rofl

[Haiw]

Hey, and what happend to Mortimer?!?!?!
Mortimer just left on his own. Same with adamballchet. Personally, I started reading the site somewhere at the start of 2003. Started posting several months later.

[NcDeuce]

adamtheball

Didn't he change his name to Gear God or something? :lol:

I nominate ducimus for the position of official Historian of MP.net :roll:

[DE_Six]

I remember when the site was hosted at AIX Gaming...

It was just after the start of OEF, Ryan (VirtualPender) had started to gather pics from Afghanistan.

There was no boards, just user comments under the pics, and boy did we have some flamewars going on...the boards look tame in comparison.

Cool... ;)

[Seoulstriker]

That's what I thought, DE6. :)

[Dennis G]

the main reason I came to this site was the conservative attitudes that I found here but things have changed around here :( I guess a good smelling piece of cheese attracts rats too.

[Dennis G]

But over all I still like the site

[memphiz]

ive been browsing here for about a year now, and I only started to read the forums in August. Hopefully some of the questions get answered, Im very curious.

[budanski]

Yeah, I've got no life :|

[Fintin]

i got one to add to the books.....april 20th 2004 dushmouth got the picture that he isnt wanted.....

[Seraphim]

I have no idea when I first started posting comments to the photo section (I know that I did during the war in afghanistan and long before the iraq war).


I'm looking at the join date, and it seems like the forum was inhabited by gamers (?) from 2000 to 2002. Hood for a while was posting as a guest with the name <Hood>. Hood and Budanski registered at approximately the same time in September of 2002. After that point, the forum you see now starts to take shape and the forum grows in popularity exponentially. And they lived happily ever after. ;)


My old account is in October 2002...Im not telling you which one though. I tried accessing it but it says its inactive and to contact admin.

[Ratamacue]

I started visiting when the site was run by virtualpender and was basically a small collection of photos of SOF in Afghanistan. Slowly but surely it expanded and became the massive database it is now and I started posting alot in the photos comments. Eventually when they started putting the newest topics listed on the front page, one of the topics caught my eye and I started posting here on 8 February 2003.

[Merik]

latest discovery shows this....
http://www.fmnh.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/ttt/images/caveman.jpg the founding father of militaryphotos.net....

I knew Hood was ugly but damn.......... :lol:

[usa320]

I was lurking here since the site first went up. i read about it at a site called simhq.com.

I love the amount of OEF pictures, and eventually signed up on the forums. Ive been here longer than most.