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.
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In 2004, our fearless leader Windsor created the site's first banner. It was a very exciting time for the site :lol:
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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.
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In 2011 the Royal Internet Forum was developed into what we have today, the Royal Insight Forum!
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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
Congratulations clearly are in order for one AWESOME forum !! Yippee !! :nod:
:congrats: to Windsor for holding it together. :thumbsup:
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Hooray for Royal Insight Forum!!!!! Happy Anniversary! :happy20: :happy15: :nod: :thumbsup:
Congrats to the wonderful team that made everything possible through all these years! :hug:
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Happy anniversary! :happy20:
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:congrats: to Windsor for holding it together. :thumbsup:
And a big THANK YOU too!
To our longstanding members and our amazing forum! (http://www.your3dsource.com/images/congratswave.gif)
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Congratulations! :stars:
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!
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Happy Anniversary to us!!
Happy Anniversary to us!!
Happy Anniversary, dear us!!
Happy Anniversary to us!!
And many moreeee!!!
Cindy
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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
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!
Hey, its MediaStar!! Glad to see you are still popping in from time to time :D
And he is back!!! :happy20: Nice to see you around mediastar, you are missed!!! How have you been? :hug:
:wooo: Hey Medistar :yesss:
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!
Do you have 4 guest bedrooms for when we come to stay :P
That's a "must" if you are planning on buying property in any tropical locale!
Exactly!!! :nod:
Oh yeaaaaa :wooo: :wooo:
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.
Yup, still in NY. Glad you made it out before the snow storm! NYC has had quite a bit of bad weather this year. I'd be nervous to plan any travel through that area until summer!!
Nervous? Bah!! A tone of snow to play with, who cares about not being able to travel, right? :happy:
It was a tough decision. Madrid airport/Iberia keep going on strike, Miami is a dreadful airport and United/Newark was the cheapest.
Having been stranded due to bad weather several times, it isn't as fun as you make it seem Winnie. :(
Wow. I can't believe this site is still up. Somehow I managed to stumble across it 10 yrs since I started following it. Bizarre! I can't believe the forum awards is still going on. We made it as a joke 10 yrs ago - something to do with cheese. I don't remember the whole story. Glad I can recognize a name or two (mainly mediastar...haha). I hope everyone is doing great. 10 yrs is a long time. Lots of changes for sure. Congrats!
Kasper, my a blast from the past :lol: Welcome back!
Hey kasper! Great to see your post. Where are you now?
For everyone else on the forum, kasper was the forum's first star member right at the start. If it wasn't for her the forum wouldn't be here now.
Hooray! :clap:
Good to know! I think kasper was here when I first joined, but perhaps only briefly. I definitely recognized the name!
You're too kind mediastar but I can't take all that credit. I was reading the first post about the hx of the forum and I had to laugh at myself. I've been a member for so long that I remember when the forum was magenta and gray! Lol. That's "old school" forum.
As for where I am now - geographically, I never left. I'm still residing in the great state of Texas. However, college degree, profession, love, marriage and children have all been some of the few changes in the last decade. I guess I met my own Prince Charming and am now living my own fairy tale.
Wow! Welcome back kasper!!! I am glad to hear again from you. A lot has changed in the past decade, very good news on your fairy tale!! :clap: :happy20:
Glad to hear that there are fairy tales in Texas as well as Germany!
And congratulation to your husband! A guy that I went to school with went to live in Texas. He got himself a job with Halliburton, a Texas, well a mid-Atlantic accent and boots with spurs coming out the back. He then got a nice big house and a ranch. Then he got some cattle. I think they were from the next door ranch and he allowed them to come across and graze. Then he found himself a nice Texan girl and asked her to marry him. She said he would have to come to her parents' home and ask permission from her father. So he went over and asked her dad for permission and he said no. Respect!
Oh my gosh!
That's horrible! I think if I were the girl, I'd still marry the guy especially if I loved him and felt in my heart that he was the one. How could a dad say no?!
Very strange. I've never heard of anyone else where the same thing happened. He did marry another girl from Texas though!