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Old Sat Apr 28, 2012, 12:16pm
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Also the dates that people joined is deceiving because there was a time when this site crashed and lost postings from people very early on as well. I do not know who was necessarily first, but I know I was here near the very beginning and guys like JR, BKref and Mark Padgett were here either before or around the same time. As state McGriffs was the first site that most of the early people frequented and we soon moved over here as there was some control over the content and it was a counter to Referee Magazine on some level as well. Maybe Brad can give a little more background, but I believe this forum started around 1997.

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I don't remember it crashing ... maybe I couldn't convert the old postings when I moved to the new software. Of course, that was 12-13 years ago, so not sure how good my memory is on the subject!!

I registered the Officiating.com domain back in 1995-96 and posted a bunch of officiating-related articles ... 1997 sounds about right for when the forum started.

And, yeah, I was first
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Old Sat Apr 28, 2012, 12:30pm
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Old Sat Apr 28, 2012, 02:06pm
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I'm just a newbie. I would have joined earlier, but Jurassic Referee scared the heck out of me.

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We took a vote.

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Old Sat Apr 28, 2012, 02:44pm
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I don't remember it crashing ... maybe I couldn't convert the old postings when I moved to the new software. Of course, that was 12-13 years ago, so not sure how good my memory is on the subject!!

I registered the Officiating.com domain back in 1995-96 and posted a bunch of officiating-related articles ... 1997 sounds about right for when the forum started.

And, yeah, I was first
You are right (of course you are) that it was not a crash it was a conversion to new software. I just remember we had to re-register and what we had posted was gone. I do believe I was introduced to the site by the guy that got me into officiating in the summer or fall of 1997 for the first time.

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Old Sat Apr 28, 2012, 03:49pm
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If you do a search, it appears the first poster was a guy named Kelvin Green, followed by Padgett then Camron. Of course, I'm just a novice at this so I could be wrong.
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Old Tue May 01, 2012, 12:04am
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