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so can anyone tell me ab the history of tbt, who formed it, when, why... and... stuff like that 
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so can anyone tell me ab the history of tbt, who formed it, when, why... and... stuff like that
I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
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oh my, that's quite interesting, thanks for sharing <3 hahaI'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
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this made me nostalgic in a really weird way, I wasn't even a part of this ahah. Awesome work guys!I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
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Thanks so much for putting this together! I love seeing the early days of websites and their designs- it makes me feel so nostalgic as I was part of early fansite communities. It's cool to know that forums existed that long ago.I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
the nostalgia is contagious!
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it was fun to reminisce, glad you enjoyed it!
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I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
What a great write up! I just wanted to add that as someone from the City Folk wave back in '08, Fish was seen as such a legendary figure in the community thanks to you real old heads of TBT. I remember wanting this mythical user to come back one day lol.
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That is really cool! This forum is really special to me so learning some history about it was especially interesting. Thank you for your detailed post c:I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
Kind of neat to think that of how many "waves" of new members there have been now. The original wave for Wild World, 2008/2009 wave for City Folk, I think there was a big wave around 2013? for New Leaf, and now again in 2020... TBT might live on forever
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I was 4-5 years old around this time, I can't believe it's been like 15 years since the beginning of the forum.I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
Free vintage sig add-ons for anyone to use.I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
He actually did, very briefly, in like 2013 or so?
Well... I've just updated my TBT signature for the 1st time in a decade
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You mean TBT isn't your homepage anymore?!
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The crazy thing is... almost every other popular gaming forum (at least from what I can remember) from the time when TBT was created doesn't exist or is nowhere near as active as it used to be... I can't believe TBT is more active than ever. It's pretty cool!
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You remember pretty well, most of this is accurate! A few small corrections though: Justin was an active member during the time you mentioned, but he first became a mod a bit later, in 2012. Fish made a lot of our forum designs around the 2006 time, but the site shown here was actually designed by only me. For those wondering, the site was more of an additional thing added to the forum, but we had a relatively popular gaming blog, which Bulerias would write articles for as DarthGohan mentioned. However, a lot of the site was essentially just a bunch of unfinished projects that we had a hard time focusing on while also running the forum. When we moved to vBulletin in 2011 we also changed our domain name to bellteeforums.com and decided to not have a non-forum part of the site anymore.I'll give it my best shot.
Rewind back to late 2004. Nsider was Nintendo's official forum, and is where the TBT founders (and many of the other first wave of members) met. One of the boards on Nsider was dedicated to the original Animal crossing game. The board was called "The Crossing Guardian". Here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
If you look closely, you'll see "The Animal Crossing Ask Center", started by an Nsider named Stormtrooper88888. Storm was/is @Jeremy , and the Animal Crossing Ask Center ("ACAC" for short) was a huge thread where everyone went to ask questions and get help for AC on Gamecube. Here's a peek inside the ACAC to see what it looked like:
Around that same time, the end of 2004, Jeremy founded TBT forums, along with @Bulerias (who seems to still pop into TBT from time to time still). The other original admin was Bastoise, also from Nsider. Smarttechdragon15 also met the group at Nsider and although he was a first a Global Mod at TBT, was soon promoted to Admin.
TBT started to grow more throughout 2005, and the staff expanded as well. @Sporge27 , Zero13, @Mino and I were added as mods. Not too long after we added @Justin as a mod as well. I remember there was debate about adding Justin to the staff because he was super active and helped out a lot around the forum but was pretty young at the time.
The whole forum would always get excited when new Sages and staff were going to be announced. Sages were a rank inspired from Nsider, which was a special rank given to members of the forum who made the best contributions. There was a special Sages only board, though not much discussion happened in there to be honest.
There was a huge increase in members around the time of Wild World coming out. The forum was really active, everyone was sharing their friend codes and arranging hangouts in the game... you don't know how excited we were to finally get to play AC with each other, since the original Gamecube game had no online multiplayer! It was a really fun time at TBT.
I think Jeremy also launched the TBT website in the months before Wild World launched. Here's a screenshot of the site:
Jeremy built the site, and Bulerias wrote a lot of the articles. I remember working with Bulerias and Gengar writing previews and reviews for the "Gamer's Lounge" section of the site. I think Fish (also one of the old mods) helped with the design of the site, since he always designed the skins for the forum at the time.
Hope you enjoyed a little bit of TBT history.
And yes, like Mino said, Fish did once stop by years ago.
