Happy Allspark Day!

[Kalidor]

On November 11 1999 The Allspark community came online for the very first time!

Beast Machines was going strong and thanks to the efforts of Kyle McMasters and Chris Zammit the Transformers fans had a chance to talk about spoilers. Who was Tankorr? Who was Waspinator?

What an amazing time. And we never stopped.

I'm glad to see all those who are still here and all the ones we picked up along the way.

 

[ssg 4 life]

primus bless this day

 

[Sabrblade]

 

[Haywire]

Thanks for keeping this place here for us!

 

[LordGigaIce]

mazel tov

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I joined much later but I lurked here a really long time. Not all the way since 1999, but a really long time. Password fatigue kept me from adding another account to my life, but Allspark won.

I could read about Transformers anywhere, but these were the people I wanted to talk to about it. Thank you for getting me through the toughest years of my life.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

November 11 1999

Niiiiiiiiiice choice of launch date.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I have not skipped a day of posting since I joined. Not a single day. Unless you count days when the forum was offline and nobody could post. But I still didn't miss a day of posting on wherever our backup was. I once was on the road and didn't have good cell reception, and I bought some barely functional tiny laptop just so I could get a post in before the day was over. I didn't want to lose my streak.

As much as server outages have sucked, I don't regret the time I've spent in Tempspark, or the time spent on Discord during the great 2021 outage. It was like digital camping. I can't do camping for real. There's bugs, it's hot, and Florida is so humid that sweat doesn't evaporate and cool us down like nature intended. The air is full. But camping out in our backups has been fun for me in a way. The long outages sucked, but we were all stuck in the suckage together, and that's an experience I don't regret. 10/10, when the nukes fall I will be posting with you all until the internet goes down for good.

 

[Sciflyer]

I was a longtime lurker in the late 90s / early 2000s before joining. I've said it before and it bears repeating: this place has always felt like my internet home - even before joining. There are so many good memories and interactions on the site, and anytime that the world just ceased to make sense, I could always find refuge here; still do. Happy Belated Allspark Day!

 

[Donocropolis]

Missed the day! Well, better late than never. Like Sciflyer said, this is 100% my internet "home." Not sure exactly when I joined up, sometime around 2005 or 6, so not from the beginning by any means, but still, that's 20 years of loving this place.

 

[Galvaplexia]

I’ve def been here almost since jump. Can’t remember exactly when. Might have been circa ‘00/‘01, on the ezboard. Maybe when it was about partway through BM. I feel like it was def right before RiD2001 came out, bc I hated it and needed to rant to someone about why my high-class cgi nerdwank became anime. God, I was so cringe-edgy back then (credgy? I am not Thew). Anyways, I migrated over to the new server with most everyone else when that weirdass civil war happened started by that one guy. KingDecepticon? KingGrimlock88? Someone King something rather.

Took a long break when I had almost 10 consecutive online crashouts; and due to some nuggets of wisdom from some of the more understanding people on the board, realized there was something going on with my gender. Still delayed longer coming back once all that got figured out, bc of how cringe I’d been, and I wasn’t sure how to proceed with an Allspark online profile transition.

Of course, when I began logging on again just to lurk at first, I noticed plenty of not just allies, but lots of actual people with in their bio. That, and the fact that there were so many YT content creators out there now who also identified as trans. Realizing this place was safer than I thought, I just quietly “femme’d” my profile and started posting again, mostly just in the picture thread. This my first actual discussion engagement post in a long, long time.

Thank you, AllSpark. You made me transgender.

 

[Wheelimus]

Happy birthday Allspark!

 

[The Predaking]

I remember finding this place when I was in college in either 2001 or 2002 while I was trying to find downloads of the various Japanese TF shows as well as discussing RID2001, as I loved that show.