RIF's 10th Anniversary!!

Jenee · January 31, 2013, 05:48:21 PM

2013 marks the 10th annivesary of the Royal Insight Forum!!!!

Royal Insight was a spin-off of The Internet Forum, created by mediastar. It became it's own dedicated forum in 2003.

In 2004, our fearless leader Windsor created the site's first banner. It was a very exciting time for the site :lol:

In 2005, the forum was moved to a new software - the same software that we are still using now, although we've gone through many upgrades!! The theme back then was based on a blue gradient and it remained the main theme for over 5 years. That image is perhaps the one you will all mostly remember.

In 2011 the Royal Internet Forum was developed into what we have today, the Royal Insight Forum!

In honor of our 10 year anniversary, I have combed the member list to try and figure out who our 10 most long-standing active members are. The following lists our "oldest" members who are active (some more than others!) based on who has posted in the past 6 months...

Quote1. Lila the Flirt -- registered: June 09, 2003
2. Windsor -- registered: June 12, 2004
3. Karla64 -- registered: July 16, 2004
4. Jenee -- registered: October 15, 2004
5. Ruthy -- registered: November 15, 2004
6. Ladybee -- registered: December 12, 2004
7. Chavita -- registered: February 13, 2005
8. Blue Eyes -- registered: March 20, 2005
9. PrincessOctavia -- registered: April 02, 2005
10. WOW -- registered: April 17, 2005

There was no formula for me to do this, I just had to browse the member list and see who's name sounded familiar... so if you registered around the dates listed above and I missed you, PLEASE point out what a dumb-dumb I am so I can add you to the list :P

RoyalB · January 31, 2013, 06:10:34 PM

Congratulations clearly are in order for one AWESOME forum !! Yippee !! :nod:

snokitty · January 31, 2013, 07:02:32 PM

:congrats: to Windsor for holding it together. :thumbsup:

Macrobug · January 31, 2013, 07:14:39 PM

:happy20: :clap: :congrats:

I love Royal! · January 31, 2013, 08:48:00 PM

Hooray for Royal Insight Forum!!!!! Happy Anniversary! :happy20: :happy15: :nod: :thumbsup:

chavita · January 31, 2013, 09:34:05 PM

Congrats to the wonderful team that made everything possible through all these years! :hug:

Princesse Grace · January 31, 2013, 11:00:53 PM

Lothwen · January 31, 2013, 11:41:59 PM

Happy anniversary! :happy20:

Jenee · February 01, 2013, 12:54:09 AM

Quote from: snokitty on January 31, 2013, 07:02:32 PM
:congrats: to Windsor for holding it together. :thumbsup:

And a big THANK YOU too!

Blue Clover · February 01, 2013, 03:08:30 AM

To our longstanding members and our amazing forum!

SophieChloe · February 01, 2013, 09:47:52 AM

Congratulations! :stars:

Orchid · February 01, 2013, 10:42:06 PM

Congratulations and thank you to our "veteran members" :congrats: and to everyone who has and continues to support the forum with a fine mosaic of contributions!

A special shout out to mediastar who started the whole journey and to Windsor for taking the forum on and keeping it going for us all to enjoy today and into the future. :clap:

Happy 10th Anniversary!

cinrit · February 01, 2013, 11:51:49 PM

:jensinging:
Happy Anniversary to us!!
Happy Anniversary to us!!
Happy Anniversary, dear us!!
Happy Anniversary to us!!

And many moreeee!!!

Cindy

marine2109 · February 03, 2013, 03:28:57 PM

sara8150 · February 08, 2013, 10:40:59 PM

I'm wish I want join veteran royals somedays on forums I'm been join royal watchers since 1997 for 16 years since Diana,Princess of Wales's passing I'm been read on Diana's life's and her biography on computer also and mores of member of British royals families..I would love have reporter of British royals somedays.

And congrats on RIF on their ten anniversary

mediastar · February 10, 2013, 09:01:54 PM

Thanks for the memories from forum member number one.

And congratulations to Windsor and the team for the very successful relaunch of the site two or three years ago!

Jenee · February 10, 2013, 09:26:43 PM

Hey, its MediaStar!! Glad to see you are still popping in from time to time :D

Windsor · February 11, 2013, 06:10:49 PM

And he is back!!! :happy20: Nice to see you around mediastar, you are missed!!! How have you been? :hug:

WOW · February 12, 2013, 12:50:14 AM

:wooo: Hey Medistar :yesss:

mediastar · February 12, 2013, 07:09:15 PM

Hey guys. Great to see you around.

I'm just back from Costa Rica where I was tempted to buy a little casita. Maybe see you there one day!

Orchid · February 12, 2013, 07:43:07 PM

Do you have 4 guest bedrooms for when we come to stay :P

Jenee · February 12, 2013, 09:42:24 PM

That's a "must" if you are planning on buying property in any tropical locale!

Windsor · February 12, 2013, 09:46:12 PM

Exactly!!! :nod:

WOW · February 12, 2013, 11:02:52 PM

Oh yeaaaaa :wooo: :wooo:

mediastar · February 13, 2013, 07:18:53 PM

I'll see what I can do!

Are you still in New York Jen? I was in Newark for a couple of hours on the 2nd, just as it started to snow. Fortunately we got away OK.